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This is great~ There's been some really rapid progress on Text2SQL in the last 6 months, and I really thinking this will have a real impact on the modern data stack ecosystem!
I had similar success with lambdaprompt for solving Text2SQL (https://github.com/approximatelabs/lambdaprompt/)
(3) Asking for re-writes of failed queries (happens occasionally) also helps
The main challenge I think with a lot of these "look it works" tools for data applications, is how do you get an interface that actually will be easy to adopt. The chat-bot style shown here (discord and slack integration) I can see being really valuable, as I believe there has been some traction with these style integrations with data catalog systems recently. People like to ask data questions to other people in slack, adding a bot that tries to answer might short-circuit a lot of this!
We built a prototype where we applied similar techniques to the pandas-code-writing part of the stack, trying to help keep data scientists / data analysts "in flow", integrating the code answers in notebooks (similar to how co-pilot puts suggestions in-line) -- and released https://github.com/approximatelabs/sketch a little while ago.
A couple of thoughts jumped out after reading this: transforms and meta-learning.
An old trick in AI is to transform the medium to Lisp because it can be represented as a syntax-free tree that always runs. In this case, working with SQL directly led to syntax errors which returned no results. It would probably be more fruitful to work with relational algebra and tuple relational calculus (I had to look that up hah) represented as Lisp and convert the final answer back to SQL. But I'm honestly impressed that ChatGPT's SQL answers mostly worked anyway!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming
http://www.cis.umassd.edu/~ivalova/Spring08/cis412/Ectures/G...
https://www.gene-expression-programming.com/GepBook/Chapter1...
https://github.com/gdobbins/genetic-programming
I actually don't know how far things have come with meta-learning as far as AIs tuning their own hyperparameters. Well, a quick google search turned up this:
https://cloud.google.com/ai-platform/training/docs/hyperpara...
So I would guess that this is the secret sauce that's boosted AI to such better performance in the last year or two. It's always been obvious to do that, but it requires a certain level of computing power to be able to run trainings thousands of times to pick the best learners.
Anyway, my point is that the author is doing the above steps semi-manually, but AIs are beginning to self-manage. Recursion sounds like a handy term to convey that. ChatGPT is so complex compared to what he is doing that I don't see any reason why it couldn't take his place too! And with so many eyeballs on this stuff, we probably only have a year or two before AI can do it all.
I'm regurgitating 20 year old knowledge here as an armchair warrior. Insiders are so far beyond this. But see, everything I mentioned is so much easier to understand than neural networks, that there's no reason why NNs can't use these techniques themselves. The hard work has already been done, now it's just plug n chug.
This seems fun, but certainly unnecessary. All of those questions could be answered in seconds using a warehouse tool like Looker or Metabase or https://github.com/totalhack/zillion (disclaimer: I'm the author and this is alpha-level stuff, though I use it regularly).
It only support Postgres for now (and it's far from perfect..)
https://github.com/BenderV/olympe