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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.

For what it's worth, I'm also very bad at plotting graphs with any kind of accuracy, which is why I use plotting software instead of doing it by hand.

I get the feeling that my visual system and the language I use are respectively pretty bad at processing and conveying precise information from a plot, (beyond simple descriptors like "A is larger than B" or "f(x) has a maximum"). I guess I would find it mildly surprising if any Vision-Language model were able to perform those tasks very well, because the representations in question seem pretty poorly suited.

I get that popular diffusion models for image generation are doing a bad job composing concepts in a scene and keeping relationships constant over the image--even if Stable Diffusion could write in human script, it's a bad bet that the contents of a legend would match a pie chart that it drew. But other Vision-Language models, designed for image captioning or visual question answering, rather than generating diverse, stylistic images, are pretty good at that compositional information (up to, again, the "simple descriptions" level of granularity I mentioned before.)

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

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post #115

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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

I ... sort of got there. But then it rapidly escalated to extremely long and incoherent chains of hyphenated names with "money" and "$" and things all throughout.

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 (…

> The author of this tweet has been an early user

Maybe not good to reveal customer names this way, unless they already disclosed it publicly

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

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post #33

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Idea: Use GPT-3 to identify GPT-3-generated snippets.

In some cases it would be impossible, since sometimes it can output exactly what was written by a human, or something that sounds 100% like what someone would write. But if you allow some false negatives, such as trying to detect if a bot is a bot, I think that could work? But I feel like the technology to write fake text is inevitably going to outpace the ability to detect it.

If generator output is truly indistinguishable from human output, then who cares? We've won.

It reminds me of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/810/

> But I feel like the technology to write fake text is inevitably going to outpace the ability to detect it.

Counterintuitively, this isn't always true! For example, spam detectors have outpaced spam generation now for decades.

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

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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…

Often the other way around is better. Example: Let AI give text classification a go then let a human perfect and check the result. Let AI end your email but check you are happy with how it is physically phrased. Etc.

Human first scenarios will be more rare. And probably where the human has to do it by law. Made up example: border control checking passport photos match face. Human checks and if they click OK then AI double checks.

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

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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…

Often the other way around is better. Example: Let AI give text classification a go then let a human perfect and check the result. Let AI end your email but check you are happy with how it is physically phrased. Etc. Human first scenarios will be more rare. And probably where the human has to do it by law. Made up example: border control checking passport photos match face. Human checks and if they click OK then AI d…

One could argue that AI finishing emails is a progression of AI proofreading emails

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

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Obviously adding the USPS API to your tool would take less time than building an AI tool. But the AI tool is infinitely more powerful for almost anything other than dealing with addresses. So the question isn't which one you can add to your tool faster. The question is, if I already have this AI tool setup, is it worth setting up the USPS API to go from 95% accuracy to 99.9% accuracy. For countless applications, it w…

> For countless applications, it wouldn't be. If having something like the zip code not be accurate, then what's the point of having the zip code in your data? People writing code to store zips/addresses are doing it to not not be able to send/verify/etc. They are doing so that the can, but if the data is wrong then they can't. What countless applications that ask for a zip code/mailing address and don't need it to b…

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