Show HN: Next-gen spreadsheet GRID launches GPT-3 powered formula copilot

Posted by Pidsinee on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @04:20PM
from the show-hn dept.

Hi Hacker News, we are submitting again after getting some great feedback on our first post about GRID.

We at GRID (a spreadsheet SaaS based in Reykjavik, Iceland) just launched the 2.0 version of our product today.

GRID combines the power of spreadsheets and presentation/text editing software into one product. You can edit your spreadsheet, and create an interactive doc on top of it which is connected to the underlying spreadsheet data. In today's launch, we introduced our GPT-3 powered formula assistant that allows you to write out queries in natural language, and the assistant will suggest formulas, right there in the cell.

We would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.

Here's a video that shows what the formula assistant can do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIfAnEvDCdo&t=15s

Check out this blog our founder wrote about the various ways GPT could be leveraged for spreadsheets: https://medium.grid.is/gpt-3-and-spreadsheets-4808acfda30d

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Re:Show HN: Next-gen spreadsheet GRID launches GPT-3 powered... by alfieb on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @04:28PM (#34796308)

I love the idea of being able to write out queries in natural language and have the formula assistant suggest formulas. This is a fantastic feature that will save a lot of time and reduce errors.

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Re:Show HN: Next-gen spreadsheet GRID launches GPT-3 powered... by ratgobbler on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @04:51PM (#34796646)

It feels like this A.I. fad is being shoved into everything these days, from search bots to Seinfeld, and seemingly people are looking for the least practical ways of using this stuff, a bit like how blockchain is still a solution looking for a problem. But spreadsheet formula assistance feels like one of the few places where this might actually be a useful addition (if it indeed does what it says on the tin and stops short of hallucinating formulas that don't exist). I'd be curious to know whether the team behind this feature is doing anything to actively stop it from doing so, by vetting the return values from GPT-3 in some way.

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Re:Show HN: Next-gen spreadsheet GRID launches GPT-3 powered... by hjalmarg on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @05:09PM (#34796882)

Hjalmar here, founder and CEO at GRID.

Yes, one of several things we do in post-processing the raw generated results is passing them through validation to make sure it returns valid results. There hasn't been a lot of hallucination in terms of entirely made up formulas and such, but they sometimes become a little "creative" in the syntax. We've more or less reined this in :)

In fact this works amazingly well. It is however still an "assistant" rather than an "expert" so users should make sure to double check the suggestions before accepting them.

Would love for people to try it and give us feedback.

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