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4 years

This is mind blowing. With GPT-3, I built a layout generator where you just describe any layout you want, and it generates the JSX code for you. W H A T

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Found this comment in Apple’s open source chess engine source

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I just built a *functioning* React app by describing what I wanted to GPT-3. I'm still in awe.

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In absolute awe at these old MIT course posters designed by Dietmar Winkler in the 60's:

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Here's a sentence describing what Google's home page should look and here's GPT-3 generating the code for it nearly perfectly.

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I built a todo list app simply by describing it to GPT-3. It generated the React code for a fully functioning app within seconds. I'm becoming more impressed and aware of its capabilities every single day.

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2 years

I used DALL-E to generate a few 3D assets for Debuild's new landing page design. It's actually... pretty amazing?

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Introducing Lexica – a search engine for AI-generated images and prompts. Every image has a prompt and seed, so you can copy and remix anything for yourself. Hopefully this makes Stable Diffusion prompting a bit less of a dark art and more of a science!

Lexica

The state of the art AI image generation engine.

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4 years

GPT-3 likes emojis too.

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1 year

Here are a few samples from the latest Lexica model. Will be live for everyone to play with in a few days. To beta test it, just reply here with a prompt.

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7 months

i’m dying — bro made his angel investors his lock screen so he “never forgets his fiduciary duty towards them” 😭

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Introducing Lexica Aperture - a model that can generate realistic looking photographs. Try the beta out for yourself here. (log in then click the Aperture tab)

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2 years

A few more Studio Ghibli SF images from stable diffusion. I find the Ghibli-style warm colors gorgeous.

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Just added reverse image search to Lexica. You can upload a photo and it’ll return the most similar Stable Diffusion images and their prompts. This makes it very to turn a real world concept into a Stable Diffusion prompt.

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There’s no point in using GPT-3.5 in production — the API has frequent downtime, plus high response latencies lead to subpar end user experiences. Instead, I’ve found a Mistral 7B finetune deployed with VLLM to be 10x faster(!), way cheaper, and *stupidly* simply to self-host.

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> an H100 server in every home

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1 year

it's models all the way down

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2 years

I'm excited to announce Lexica's $5M seed round led by Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman via AI Grant

Lexica's $5M seed round

Building a creative tool for the future

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5 months

The Mixtral MoE model genuinely feels like an inflection point — a true GPT-3.5 level model that can run at 30 tokens/sec on an M1. Imagine all the products now possible when inference is 100% free and your data stays on your device!

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3 years

I gave GPT-3 access to Chrome with the objective "please buy me Airpods". Pretty interesting if you ask me 🤔

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1 year

A few more photorealistic samples from the new Lexica model.

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4 years

If you want to try the gpt-3 code generator for yourself, you should go here:

GPT-3 Code generator (debuild.co)

If you want to use the gpt-3 generator for yourself, then fill out this form!

docs.google.com

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4 years

If you're interested in using this tool, you can sign up here! I'll be letting in the first wave of users in this weekend!

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1 year

Here are a few architecture samples from the Lexica Aperture model. Real-world coherence has improved, but when you look closely there are still weird artifacts.

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4 years

I only had to write 2 samples to give GPT-3 context for what I wanted it to do. It then properly formatted all of the other samples. There were a few exceptions, like the JSX code for tables being larger than the 512 token limit.

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Lexica's search engine is now 100% powered by CLIP. This means your search query will likely have thousands of matching Stable Diffusion images. You can also search by image similarity too, which is a rabbit hole I've fallen down one too many times.

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I'm opening up Lexica's search API for anybody to use. Now anyone can integrate with a library of tens of millions of Stable Diffusion generated images, all licensed Creative Commons, entirely for free. Lexica API Docs:

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@Samhanknr I was curious so I tried it, and apparently you can fix bugs by just explaining what you want in more detail!

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7 months

I still can't believe computers can make us feel things now

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This is most fun I've ever had with a camera. It takes photos that look like they're from a full-frame DSLR while being a tiny point and shoot that fits in a tight jeans pocket. Officially a Ricoh GR iii maximalist.

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3 years

What if GPT-3 could generate a full-stack web app from a sentence description? Like an app with functional components, databases, API requests, instant deployments, and more. If only...

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With GPT-4’s image capabilities it might be possible to build an agent that can interact online natively: 1. capture browser’s screen 2. prompt is “your goal is to achieve X, what do I type/click/do next?” 3. take action via Puppeteer 4. repeat on the internet nobody knows…

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Introducing "God Mode" for Lexica. Quickly view hundreds of Stable Diffusion images in a single search and find the exact style you're looking for in seconds. Available now:

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3 years

Here's how to use GPT-3 recursively to solve general problems!

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1 year

Here’s my personal 2023 LLM product wishlist: - self-driving web browser - inquisitive note taking tool that asks clarifying questions - textbooks that you can chat with - brainstorming tool that automatically makes new connections - research papers rewritten for any skill level

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A few more photos from the Lexica Aperture model – it tends to get the number of fingers correct, but still has issues with the finer details. Should be live for everyone to play with this week!

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4 years

Wow. I built a React dice component with GPT-3. This feels far more fun than writing JSX.

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1 year

Unreal and Unity are the target of a triple pincer movement. - diffusion models commoditize Riot/Blizzard-level assets to cost nothing. - bigger Codex models shorten game dev cycles tenfold. - GPT-4 makes Pixar-level storytelling & world building feel like child’s play.

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A few more photorealistic examples from the new Lexica Aperture model.

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4 years

If I wanted it to write output plain HTML/CSS instead of JSX, all I would have to do would be to re-write my 2 initial samples in HTML/CSS. Then all of GPT-3's outputs would be in plain HTML/CSS.

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3 years

Here I am generating ~20 versions of a web app by describing what I want in just 1 sentence to @DebuildHQ . Debuild uses GPT-3 + Codex to: - Generate a product spec - Generate the data model - Write the SQL queries - Generate the React UI - Deploy it in 1 click

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4 years

@JanelleCShane Sure thing!

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6 months

A simple single-purpose AI chat device would be so fun to use. Just hold down the single button, speak, and listen to the response in real-time. All models would run locally on-device so it wouldn’t be reliant on hosted API providers or a cellular connection — it should just…

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2 years

Here are a few more DALL-E generated design assets. It's pretty good at "rendering" 3D objects.

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1 year

Designed a few Gameboys with Aperture v2. Just shipped it — currently live on Lexica if you want to play around with it!

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Introducing Lexica Aperture v3! Our latest model is based on a new architecture and trained from the ground up — it should be much, much better at following prompts and rendering fine details. You can play with it at

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3 years

I built a tool that generates a podcast for any topic given a single sentence description!🤯 (Volume up!)

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4 years

I'm planning on opening up access to this tool tomorrow! Here's how to sign up:

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1 year

The images on Lexica's home feed are now *significantly* better. It's absolutely insane how far Stable Diffusion has come in 4 months. Here's to an even more hype 2023! 🥂

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Just shipped a new out-painting model to Lexica! Now you can create extremely wide angle images without your subject losing any details. Check out a few samples:

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"ghibli san francisco" god i love lexica

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TIL Noam Shazeer also built out Google’s spelling correction system:

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10 months

completely forgot that I registered the llama .ai domain name back in 2019 and subsequently sold it to a random enterprise because I had no use for it x_x

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People are doing 200k image searches on Lexica per day, and it's increasing fast.

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One of these cats is real and the other is generated by DALL-E. Can you figure out which cat is fake?

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I needed to look something up on a flight over the Pacific that didn’t have Wi-Fi until I remembered I had a 3-bit quantized Vicuna model on my iPhone 13 — which answered my question about as fast as GPT-4 at 6 tok/s. currently very bullish on pocket LLMs for offline inference

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DALL-E is not an illustration tool. It's a 3D rendering engine. Its *learned* CGI techniques like ambient occlusion, drawing shadows, and reflections. It even uses environmental haze to enhance the perception of distance... like what!?

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Come work with us! ✨ We're building an AI system that can write software at the level of a human engineer. We're hiring folks passionate about: 🔹 next-gen nocode tool 🔹 ML for code generation 🔹 Building complex systems in Python DMs open!

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What comes NeXT?

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Introducing Aperture v4 — Lexica’s best image generation model to date which can natively generate near 4k resolution images. You can use it for free right now:

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Interesting how LLAMA 2 was pretrained for 2T tokens yet somehow even the 7B model size isn’t fully saturated yet? if you showed someone these loss curves with no labels, they’d say “keep training!”

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The DRD4-7R gene — the “wanderlust gene” — reduces the brain’s sensitivity to dopamine, and is linked to novelty seeking personality traits. A lower sensitivity to dopamine means you need more exciting/riskier experiences to release dopamine, such as travel, drugs, or startups!

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A few realistic Pokemon photos from Lexica Aperture. Feels like playing Pokemon Snap!

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3 years

Here's how I try to engineer ~flow~

How to Engineer Flow

Some tips on how to get a lot done with little time.

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If you want to try the GPT-3 code generator out for yourself, then this is for you:

GPT-3 Code generator (debuild.co)

If you want to use the gpt-3 generator for yourself, then fill out this form!

docs.google.com

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1 year

Metaphor’s new LLM-powered search engine is shockingly better than Google for a lot of queries. For example, I can paste the URL off a blog I enjoyed reading, and it’ll return blogs of people who write about similar topics.

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is now publicly available! Metaphor is a search engine based on generative AI, the same sorts of techniques behind DALL-E 2 and GPT-3 1/

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New prototype: A note-taking tool where the people you write about, like Steve Jobs, about can directly comment in your notes via GPT-3. Steve Jobs has given me tons of thoughtful feedback on design, inventing new things, and computing.

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Working from home with the homies is underrated. I call it WFHWH.

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> Polaroid photo from the 90's of a group of stylish pilots for Pan Am Airways. Generated these with the Lexica Aperture model. Ran into an issue today that took 10 hours to debug, but I think it's finally working now. Working on deploying the model to Lexica now!

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I've been having more fun taking "photos" with Lexica Aperture than my actual Sony mirrorless camera - feels weird. > photo of a man/woman smiling at the camera. shot on Portra 400

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I want to see an experiment where GPT-3 is given programatic access to a web browser. Here it is completing a basic task for me (I'm in bold).

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3 years

Hey Debuild, build me a personal CRM.

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People who are really serious about building great software should be training their own models.

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It even generated a *working URL* to Google's logo.

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2 years

For anyone building a 'task-specific' tool like Figma or Roam, this book is by far the most important one you'll read. Bonnie Nardi argues against treating your users as stupid, and explains how to build powerful tools that favor utility and speed. A Small Matter of Programming

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unpopular opinion: open source LLMs are *really good*. they suck at benchmarks like HELM compared to closed models, but fine-tuned accuracy is amazing, inference is dirt cheap, and both flan-t5-xxl + gpt-neox-20b fit on a single a100. now imagine 1-click RLAIF fine-tuning…🤔

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Here’s Apex Legends being played on a 13” Mac. At ~100 FPS. With high settings. At Retina resolution. With less than 20 ms of latency.

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you can build this now — just scrape the top most convincing arguments from /r/changemyview based on deltas (awarded after a successful persuasion). then finetune llama-70b using the format: claim: <post title/body> counter: <top argument> you now have a super-persuasive AI.

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i expect ai to be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes

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Introducing Aperture v3.5 — Lexica’s next-gen image model. This model can create stunning photorealistic images, follows your prompt with exacting precision, and has made me audibly say “woah” more times than I can count. Play with it now on

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> Getting a Lexica model mistaken for a Leica camera

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I got frustrated with Lexica's existing UI for picking your image's dimensions, so I built this improved component which only uses one slider instead of 2. It's a tiny change, but feels more intuitive and fun! (also Aperture will be live on Lexica tomorrow)

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We built a robot fridge that makes chai for you ☕️ Just run ./chai.sh and Raspberry Pi pumps water + milk into a pot, and a cheap $10 heating element boils it for just the right amount of time (or until a fuse blows). honestly the chai was damn good.

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up and to the right - let's gooo 🔥

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Saying ChatGPT is “just” GPT-3 is like saying the original Macintosh is “just” a Motorola 68000. The human interface to a LLM matters just as much — if not *more* the model itself. Copilot’s seamless UI with a tiny model > a 200B+ model that makes you paste code into a web app.

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Time machines designed by Dieter Rams from Lexica

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"A massive party on the Mars Colony in the future." This image was generated using DALL-E. The fact we have models that are capable of generating images like this *today* is freaking mind-blowing. I literally cannot stop looking at it.

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Here’s a few generated 'Humans of New York' style photos from the @LexicaArt Aperture model. Framing and composition is decent, but it struggles with finer details like the chess board. If you want to beta test it send me a DM with your email.

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Lexica is looking for former founders! We’re profitable, have raised $6M+ from investors including Daniel Gross & Nat Friedman, and our team are all former technical (YC) founders. Also,

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I’ve been subscribed to ChatGPT for over a year now, but after trying Claude 3 for a week I’ve decided to switch over. Claude *feels* more concise and just gives me better vibes. This isn’t based off any concrete evals, just my own personal preferences.

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I used GPT-3 to generate new research questions and this was one of the more interesting completions.

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it's pretty jarring how massive of a gap there is between all the LLaMa finetunes and OpenAI's models for programming tasks on HumanEval+ assuming there's no data contamination on OpenAI's side, nothing even comes close which matches my subjective experience.

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just had gpt-4 optimize a python graph algo by rewriting it in rust. i've never written rust before – i just pasted the rust source and ran the cargo build command, then imported it to python. it worked on the first try, and 4x faster than the sklearn implementation. wowza

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Steve Jobs on students being able to interactively learn from anyone with the personal computer.

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Your final exam is tomorrow. You studied all week. Your alarm is set for 9am, the exams at 11. Your phone is at 23% so you plug it in. You fall asleep, fast. … You wake up before your alarm. You grab your phone — it's not turning on. It wasn't plugged in all the way. It's 1pm.

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@noornet pretty cool

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Has anyone made a LLM chatbot of a notable figure that populates the prompt context with embedding retrieval of relevant interviews and biographies? With enough source data, you could create a high quality, grounded persona even on a “small” LLM.

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@minney_cat two turtles all the way down

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Pretty awesome how Teenage Engineering actually designed it — and it even looks far better than I would’ve imagined. Instant buy!

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A simple single-purpose AI chat device would be so fun to use. Just hold down the single button, speak, and listen to the response in real-time. All models would run locally on-device so it wouldn’t be reliant on hosted API providers or a cellular connection — it should just…

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Llama-2-7b is the Toyota Corolla of LLMs

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’s mission is to create a system that can write software at the level of the world's most skilled engineers. Once everyone can instantly create the exact software they need, that’s when I think the _real_ computer revolution will begin.

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