I built this to recreate those late-night Wikipedia rabbitholes. It uses AI to find two fascinating interesting topics related to a topic you choose and then lets you dive deeper.

Ok, but what do you need AI for? The two random topics don't seem very connected, they could just be random links (or backlinks) from the page. The potential is definitely there, but the execution could be improved.

I still don't understand why you need 2 article screen for

It just feels like browsing regular wikipedia but with two windows open. Either way, I forgot how much I love diving into knowledge rabbit holes and now have 5 different manifestos printed from the Slow movement (culture) wiki.

I'm sure you could ask a historian, librarian, or expert in a field and get a nice, human-curated experience instead of more AI slop.

This is cool. I've made a browser extension for browsing the web in a more guided way and my first use case was a wikipedia tour guide. You type in a topic in the extension popup and it opens the side panel to track the journey, marking visited links and has a progress bar. it uses tab groups to keep the tour self contained and when you visit all the links it prompts you to close all the tabs.

Extension is available here:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/unpack/mcgdbnjjnnfm...

The categories seem barely helpful at times. For biology I got food and microbiota, which is fair.

But then for Chemistry I got quantum mechanics and arabic language, for Metaphysics I got Newton's law of gravitation and pop culture. Feels like some links are too tenuous to be useful, or the hallucination issue strikes again.

This is a good example of where AI will not take over.

Wikipedia rabbitholes do not follow any pattern. To truly create an AI that guides you through Wikipedia rabbithole you'd have to study thousands of humans going into actual rabbitholes, their clicks, and their reading patterns.

Otherwise it's just "let this AI take you on a journey you're not at all interested in".

It seems to just pick two random pages with the search term in it. With terms I tried Wikipedia search gave me more interesting results.

What exactly is the "AI" needed for here?