polyanos

I have a old ass GTX1070 and run it just fine, it's not the fastest but it works. A lot of these cases are just PEBCAK's and should just be removed from the internet, it's been made so easy that a literal child could install and use SD.

Well as long as they have a recent-ish NVidia card, rip AMD users.

Not that surprising though, they pretty much own OpenAI and probably had a lot sooner full API access to DALL-E(-2).

>Take a look at the video demo. It takes natural text in a box and generates code. Copilot was super-autocomplete, so the interface was writing code in an IDE that it filled out for you.

No it wasn't, you can literally describe, in natural text, what you want in a comment and CoPilot will do its best to generate a complete method based on that comment. It seemed like it was so auto-compltely because that focussed on the "helping the developer" part.

I'm fairly sure CoPilot could have shown something similar if they had a demo where you could make something visual easily, like HTML + Javascript/Typescript/whatever scripting language. They're using exactly the same model (Codex) after all.

That still needs work though, it messed up the "Make every fifth line bold" pretty bad. Still, it showed it could adapt to a new API pretty well.

It is only able to translate small instructions into code. I think it will take a while to get to a situation where you can just give it a list of requirements and it spits a working program.

Hell it messed up when they gave it the instruction "make every fifth line bold" in their Word api part of the demo, where it made the first line of every paragraph (which is only 4 lines long in total) bold instead of every fifth line.

I found the whole UI/sandbox they created the most interesting part. Now don't get me wrong, the tech is certainly great and all, but I really didn't had the feeling I watched/learned more than I already knew from what was shown with Github CoPilot, although I was kinda impressed, if it really is as simple as they stated, at how it is able to adapt to new apis.

It's a shame they only limited the demo to relatively simple instructions.

While at least on subject, it was quite a pain to read in my opinion.

That's actually kinda cute, and oddly off putting at the same time.

I really am curious now in what happens back-end, in the model itself, and if it is actually learning. Really should follow Gwern and his circle, it's a lot better than the blind and baseless hype/criticism floating around the internet.

>I've also seen a couple demonstrations of people generating simple apps with just a description.

And yet none of those people have released a demo, even though some said they would, multiple times. I'm still quite sceptical at those demonstration until I get to try it myself.

But at that moment, when you create specialized prompt to get a specialized result, aren't you doing most of the work for it.

>Why do you believe they won't release the model? It's Open AI after all.

Because they want to commercialize the model "to cover the costs of research", it's stated in their blog post FAQ[0].

>Google already trained a model which is bigger than GPT-3.

Source?, a fast Google search yielded no results and I'm curious.

[0]https://openai.com/blog/openai-api/

You know, this week I've been fascinated by a GPT-3 implementation writing HTML/React code, but, as you said, that is coming from a YC Alumni, so there might be actually some truth about the OpenAI press "conspiracy" theory.

Granted I was/am still sceptical, but also very curious, about the actual performance and quality of that code generator thingy and I hope he actually opens the tool this weekend this time around, as he didn't open it up at the previous announced date.

Oh, am talking about https://twitter.com/sharifshameem btw.

Really am interested in how complex these "GPT-3 generated" apps can be, but I'm afraid it will stay nothing more than a (cool) gimmick until we can actually fine-tune the model. And even then I still have my doubts.

Nevertheless its a cool demo, of what maybe will be possible in a single/multiple year(s) from now.

I think you are over selling it, sure we are gonna use some new tools but I don't think schools nor teachers are gonna disappear just yet. Education is more than just learning theories from a book/site/app/whatever.

I can see GPT-3 being used in a tool/add-on ala Intellisense or Tabnine, but as something to create "a way for anyone to ship a functional web app just by describing what it should do in natural language" (quoted from his website) I'm positive that we have to wait for at least a GPT version that doesn't get confused after ~200-300 words.

I guess you could create some kind of UI prototyping app, but better options for that already exist, which don't require you to write everything out.