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Re: Demo of =GPT3() as a spreadsheet feature

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GPT3 charges for every token read/written. What may be more useful is using GPT-3 not to manually run itself on every row, but to take the task and generate a sufficient function that fulfills the task.

Like with Stable Diffusion, maybe there will be an open model for the language prompts which less or no restrictions in the near future.

Gpt-j?

Re: Demo of =GPT3() as a spreadsheet feature

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post #34

Now wait for =deep_dream() or maybe =stable_diffusion() as a graph-generating function! (Graphs plotted with this function will of course zoom in infinitely but the further you go the more eyes and shiba dogs you'll notice in the corners ...)

Sadly current models are bad at plotting graphs with any kind of accuracy. We're still quite far off from getting them to do a properly labeled, colored pie chart with a legend.

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Also check out https://usedouble.com (YC W23) if you're interested in using something like this today. Note: I'm the founder :) Happy to answer any questions. Reply below with some sample data/problem and I'll reply with a demo to see if we can solve it out of the box!

Just signed up. How long is the wait list?

It's about 3 weeks right now. Mostly limited by me trying to make sure each person onboarded gets a high touch experience from me since the product is still rough around the edges. If you need access to solve an urgent problem, email me at founder@usedouble.com and I can get you in right away if you don't mind the early unpolished nature of the product.

Re: Demo of =GPT3() as a spreadsheet feature

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I said it before: we need Copilot flash fill. Infer what the user wants the output to be from patterns and labels, so they can enter a few examples and then “extend” and automatically do the equivalent of a complex formula. e.g. Formal | Informal Lane, Thomas | Tommy Lane Brooks, Sarah | Sarah Brooks Yun, Christopher | Doe, Kaitlyn | Styles, Chris | … Automating something like this is extremely hard with an algorithm…

I posed this exact question to character.ai's "Ask Me Anything" bot. It decided to redo the examples, too. The results: > Lane, Thomas => Thomas Layne > Brooks, Sarah => Sarah Brooksy > Yun, Christopher => Chris Yun > Doe, Kaitlyn => KD > Styles, Chris => Chris Spice, Chris Chasm I'm sure the bot overcomplicated an otherwise simple task, but I think there's always gonna be some creative error if we rely on things lik…

try to tweak the prompts so you get to the level of Katie Dee, KDizzle, Kdawg

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post #116

Could we hook GPT3 up to our dating apps? On both sides. That way we can just let the computers do the small talk and if they hit it off we can meet.

Google: Black Mirror Hang The DJ

Such an excellent episode! A master class in what it means for actors to have chemistry.

Re: Demo of =GPT3() as a spreadsheet feature

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post #68

There is a huge potential for language models to get close to messy text problems (many of which are in Excel and Sheet). I am the founder of promptloop.com - the author of this tweet has been an early user. The challenge to making something like this, or Co-pilot / Ghostwrite, work well is about meeting users where they are. Spreadsheet users dont want to deal with API keys or know what temperature is - but anyone (…

How much does it cost to run?

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post #81

The most sensible use for AI that I can see at this time is for supporting humans in their work, but only where the system is set up so that the human has to do the work first, with the AI system looking for possible errors. For example the human drives the car, and the AI brakes when it senses dangerous conditions ahead, or the human screens test results for evidence of cancer and the AI flags where it disagrees so…

This won’t work because humans are lazy and fundamentally wired to expend the least amount of effort possible. Just the belief that you have an AI that will correct your mistakes, will make people expend less effort (even subconsciously), until it completely cancels out any additional error correction from the AI. Plus, workers will hate the fact that an AI could automatically do exactly what they are doing but they…

Humans may find, however, that without practice solving the trivial problems they are ill-prepared for the difficult ones.
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