Re:Show HN: I made a handy emoji picker on macOS with GPT-3
by wilbertliu on Thursday July 08, 2021 @07:13PM
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Hi! The founder here.
I use GPT-3 to generate synonyms for all of the emojis.
And yes, it’s simple to have a list of synonyms. But is it easy? Calculate the time anyone takes to write synonyms for a particular emoji, and multiply it by the number of emojis (thousands). Not to mention the energy that people spend for it.
For the 2nd question – it’s a limited price deal, and it’ll go up in a few hours.
Re:Show HN: I made a handy emoji picker on macOS with GPT-3
by tanduv on Thursday July 08, 2021 @08:23PM
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> Calculate the time anyone takes to write synonyms
Did a quick Google search - there are ~3k emojis and ~100 were added in 2020.
Sure... it would've been a time consuming process to write synonyms for all emojis, but after the initial pass it shouldn't be a huge effort to update the list for new emojis. This would have the added benefit of having a human validated dataset, compared to what GPT3 might produce.
Also, there are resources such as Emojipedia which have at-least 2 or 3 synonyms per emoji. With that in perspective, the figure of 5k / 10k synonyms mentioned on your website doesn't seem that 'groundbreaking'.
I don't mean to undermine your work... the emoji search on macOS IS terrible. Just wanted to understand what value GPT3 brought to your product.
Re:Show HN: I made a handy emoji picker on macOS with GPT-3
by wilbertliu on Thursday July 08, 2021 @08:54PM
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> With that in perspective, the figure of 5k / 10k synonyms mentioned on your website doesn't seem that 'groundbreaking'.
I only generated it once in a go. The number will grow as the time goes by. Imagine the multiplier then.
> Just wanted to understand what value GPT3 brought to your product.
Thanks for your intent, appreciate it :) So I used GPT-3 to train all emojis, not only the new ones. That means a particular emoji will get more and more synonyms as I hire GPT-3 over and over again.
Re:Show HN: I made a handy emoji picker on macOS with GPT-3
by Wowfunhappy on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:35AM
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Thanks! You may want to add that to your website somewhere, especially since the requirements are a tad stringent (lots of stuff still supports Mojave, for instance).
Second question -- why does the pricing page say "182 spots left"? Is this a limited app release? I've never heard of anybody trying that before!
I use GPT-3 to generate synonyms for all of the emojis.
And yes, it’s simple to have a list of synonyms. But is it easy? Calculate the time anyone takes to write synonyms for a particular emoji, and multiply it by the number of emojis (thousands). Not to mention the energy that people spend for it.
For the 2nd question – it’s a limited price deal, and it’ll go up in a few hours.
Did a quick Google search - there are ~3k emojis and ~100 were added in 2020.
Sure... it would've been a time consuming process to write synonyms for all emojis, but after the initial pass it shouldn't be a huge effort to update the list for new emojis. This would have the added benefit of having a human validated dataset, compared to what GPT3 might produce.
Also, there are resources such as Emojipedia which have at-least 2 or 3 synonyms per emoji. With that in perspective, the figure of 5k / 10k synonyms mentioned on your website doesn't seem that 'groundbreaking'.
I don't mean to undermine your work... the emoji search on macOS IS terrible. Just wanted to understand what value GPT3 brought to your product.
I only generated it once in a go. The number will grow as the time goes by. Imagine the multiplier then.
> Just wanted to understand what value GPT3 brought to your product.
Thanks for your intent, appreciate it :) So I used GPT-3 to train all emojis, not only the new ones. That means a particular emoji will get more and more synonyms as I hire GPT-3 over and over again.