How soon can we have LLMs that read textbooks and answer queries?

Question

Any specialist needs to read many high-level textbooks. How far are we from having a chatbot where we can simply drop the 1000 page textbook pdf and ask questions to the bot and get answers from the content preferably with references to appropriate page number? Can this already be done?

ChildOfChaos · Accepted Answer

I use Gemini pro 1.5 for this as it has a large context window.
https://aistudio.google.com/app/
Feed it the pdf and prompt it that you only want answers from the supplied text with references to appropriate page numbers and quotes from document.
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user90131313 · Answer

When they fix the hallucination problem.

warrenm · Answer

This has been possible (at a mildly simplified level) in Acrobat for decades