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Re: Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)

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Post by caoxhua »

TNWin wrote: post #9

Would you mind explaining a little more on what is happening in the background? - What is your core technical value add? - Do you have the data sets in your own database and you are using OpenAI to query them? - Looks like you have your own home built database? - Are you using LLM Agents? - I saw that you have Airtable integrations, are you able to do the same for any datasource including Airtable?

So it's a pretty simple wrapper of LLM model in use (currently gpt-4o), it does not add much technical stuff in it.

It does not use database for any "random search", but yes, columns.ai is a data analytics tool that allows you to connect supported live data sources like Google Spreadsheet, Airtable, Notion Database to create visual stories.

The analytics engine is home built (https://github.com/varchar-io/nebula) but it is not a database. And I don't use LLM agents, just build logic how to purify data returned by LLM, and fit them into an optimized visualization.

Hope I answered your question!

Re: Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)

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Post by caoxhua »

can16358p wrote: post #14

Nice one, though I can't scroll the list horizontally thus can't read columns beyond screen bounds (iOS 17 Safari, tried "best ingredients that go with bacon" query and the result was a table view)

Yeah, not mobile friendly UI. because the visualizer really needs some space to render, so overall I didn't pursue to optimize it for mobile.

Anything is clickable and styleable on the canvas though.

Re: Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)

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Post by caoxhua »

elAhmo wrote: post #23

I can't believe there are no sources for the data. A few charts I tried seem off, but even in the cases where it looks like it might be right, trusting it without a source is a big no.

Trusting is a problem, to be honest, mostly for fun. If you want to trustable source, feel free to copy text paragraph and let it parse for you, there is another mode for that.

Re: Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)

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Post by caoxhua »

muzani wrote: post #40
sensanaty wrote: post #31

How is this in any way different than an RNG? The numbers are completely made up, does slapping an AI label on a RNG somehow make this unique or interesting?

It's like russian roulette but the bullet is a RNG. The number of bullets is also a RNG. The gun is a RNG too.

hahaha~

Re: Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)

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Post by caoxhua »

DeathArrow wrote: post #35
constantcrying wrote: post #17

I think what the world really needed right now was an LLM making up fake statistics, presented in a convincing high quality way. There is just no way this could ever be a problem. Surely everybody knows that if presented with some data they need to do a deep dive into the actual sources instead of blindly trusting a graph. I seriously want to know what was going on in the mind of the person who made this.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics.

genius, haha~

Re: Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)

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Post by hagbard_c »

hagbard_c wrote: post #41

The political bias in the results is astonishing and shows why these models should not be used for educational purposes. Just ask it a "contentious" question and notice it give biased and sometimes nonsensical results - 'crime rate by political orientation' shows three 'republican' states coming out on top with three 'democratic' states filling out the bottom. When necessary it just seems to make up data to get the d…

To the downvoters: instead of just pressing that downvote button on things which you do not agree with it would be beneficial for the discourse if you laid out your disagreement.

https://columns.ai/chatgpt/90ECu7cRj1pL82

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