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