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I think if you'd like a sample of what the author of the post is referring to, go checkout the Hemingway text editor[1]. It's very simple, and as far as I know
by dwrodri 4y ago
I think if you'd like a sample of what the author of the post is referring to, go checkout the Hemingway text editor[1]. It's very simple, and as far as I know makes no use of the advanced language models that have been in vogue for the past few years. What's really opening the door is thinking of these language models as hyper-efficient compression. With Stable diffusion, we can pack enormous amounts of artistic tedium into simple text prompts, with the weights getting small enough to fit on a flash drive[3].
Grammarly[2] also have a desktop app that appears to offer editing advice, although generally I think they're focused on grammatical correctness over anything else.
The question I'm left asking myself at the end of the article is, to what end do we need to edit text like Photoshop? Part of me sees this "Photoshop for Text" as something that would be akin to "No Code" tech stacks. Good No-Code/Low-Code solutions usually allow to build specific classes of products (websites, 3D assets) in ways that are faster than the status quo. But anyone who spends enough time in a No Code stack eventually hits the wall where the people who designed the tool had to sacrifice the flexibility of text for the convenience of a GUI.
I yearn for the day that we can set a language model loose on something like the NCBI database or arXiv and have it point out open problems in the field to new PhD students. Or have it figure out whether my ablation studies make sense. Or an AI that can generate math proofs for me. A lot of this linked to model interpretability and understanding, but I think the work that DeepMind is doing is showing that there might be a way to utilize this stuff in expert domains sooner than we think.
1: https://hemingwayapp.com/ https://hemingwayapp.com/
2: https://www.grammarly.com/ https://www.grammarly.com/
3: https://andys.page/posts/how-to-draw/# https://andys.page/posts/how-to-draw/#