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Re: Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)

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Post by behnamoh »

nxa wrote: post #101

artificial intelligence - bullsh*t = computer science (34%)

This. I'm tired of so many "it's over, shocking, game changer, it's so over, we're so back" announcements that turn out to be just gpt-wrappers or resume-builder projects.

Very few papers that actually say something meaningful are left unnoticed, but as soon as you say something generic like "language models can do this", it gets featured in "AI influencer" posts.

Re: Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)

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Post by bee_rider »

montebicyclelo wrote: post #51

> king-man+woman=queen Is the famous example everyone uses when talking about word vectors, but is it actually just very cherry picked? I.e. are there a great number of other "meaningful" examples like this, or actually the majority of the time you end up with some kind of vaguely tangentially related word when adding and subtracting word vectors. (Which seems to be what this tool is helping to illustrate, having bri…

Hmm, well I got

    cherry - picker = blackwood
if that helps.

Re: Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)

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Post by refulgentis »

n2d4 wrote: post #64
godelski wrote: post #39

data + plural = number data - plural = research king - crown = (didn't work... crown gets circled in red) king - princess = emperor king - queen = kingdom queen - king = worker king + queen = queen + king = kingdom boy + age = (didn't work... boy gets circled in red) man - age = woman woman - age = newswoman woman + age = adult female body (tied with man) girl + age = female child girl + old = female child The other…

For fun, I pasted these into ChatGPT o4-mini-high and asked it for an opinion: data + plural = datasets data - plural = datum king - crown = ruler king - princess = man king - queen = prince queen - king = woman king + queen = royalty boy + age = man man - age = boy woman - age = girl woman + age = elderly woman girl + age = woman girl + old = grandmother The results are surprisingly good, I don't think I could've do…

...welcome to ChatGPT, everyone! If you've been asleep since...2022?

(some might say all an LLM does is embeddings :)

Re: Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)

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Post by charcircuit »

gregschlom wrote: post #61
montebicyclelo wrote: post #51

> king-man+woman=queen Is the famous example everyone uses when talking about word vectors, but is it actually just very cherry picked? I.e. are there a great number of other "meaningful" examples like this, or actually the majority of the time you end up with some kind of vaguely tangentially related word when adding and subtracting word vectors. (Which seems to be what this tool is helping to illustrate, having bri…

Also, as I just learned the other day, the result was never equal, just close to "queen" in the vector space.

And queen isn't even the closest.
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