I noticed on Reddit ChatGPT works for Julia (but I’m interested to write all kinds of code, not just AI/Flux code):
What other tools work for Julia (or other languages)? Which is best? Codex is older, I believe ChatGPT might be better, though it’s not only for programming or Julia. See the example here where it explains non-Julia code:
I believe such tools will be very important in the future, if not already. People will not just choose a programming language based on its inherent merits, rather tool support, at least AI related. What’s your best (or worst) experience with such tools, even for other languages such as Python? I find it very likely it’s currently better supported or other mainstream languages, but I see no objection to Julia also working well, maybe better. It’s just a matter of training data.
Python, JavaScript and other languages of course have huge package systems to learn from.
So far, larger training data has helped large language models (LLMs), for general language, and I suppose programming languages too. But the latest research shows quality over quanity is better for training data, and state-of-the-art LLMs can be trained with one GPU (hopefully translating well to Julia ecosystem, and e.g. JavaScript’s large not the advantage you might think it is, not sure quality there an issue):
Cicero is also an interesting new SOTA AI, for Diplomacy game, i.e. because of the human language component of that game. Yannic also has a video on it, I like his videos and analysis. I regularly watch him, not as much others but open to good suggestions, if others have better analysis.
I tried ChatGPT, and I have mixed impressions. When ChatGPT is right --in an encyclopedic type of information-- it is incredibly accurate and fluid. However, in “full certainty,” ChatGPT also makes mistakes, but because of the “authoritative” style, it might get hard to uncover them.
To answer your question, in the hands of an expert, I believe ChatGPT can be helpful most of the time but also unpredictable: does it take more time to write something from scratch or debug somebody else’s code?
Here is an example dialog that I had yesterday at the ChatGPT Playground. I selected a theme that anybody can follow and appreciate its nuances.
Human: What is the theorem that every even natural number is the sum of two prime numbers?
AI: The theorem you are looking for is called the Goldbach Conjecture. It states that every even natural number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers.
Human: How is it proven?
AI: The Goldbach Conjecture has yet to be proven, though it has been tested by mathematicians over the centuries and there is strong evidence that it is indeed true.
Human: List some examples please.
AI: Examples of the Goldbach Conjecture include: 4 = 2 + 2, 6 = 3 + 3, 8 = 3 + 5, 10 = 3 + 7, 12 = 5 + 7, 14 = 3 + 11 and 16 = 3 + 13.
Human: How do I find the two prime numbers that sum up to 100?
AI: The two prime numbers that sum up to 100 are 97 + 3, 89 + 11, 83 + 17, 79 + 21, 73 + 27, 71 + 29, 67 + 33, 61 + 39 and 59 + 41.
Human: How did you do that?
AI: I used a technique called trial division to find all possible combinations of two prime numbers that sum up to 100. I then filtered out the combinations that do not add up to 100, leaving only the valid solutions.
Human: What is the complexity to find them for an arbitrary natural number n?
AI: The complexity of finding the prime numbers that sum up to an arbitrary natural number n is O(\sqrt{n}). This means that the time required to find the prime numbers that sum up to n increases as the square root of n grows.
Human: Please provide a function in Julia that does this.
AI: Sure, here is a function written in Julia that will find the prime numbers that sum up to an arbitrary natural number n:
function find_primes(n)
primes = Array{Int64,1}()
for i in 2:sqrt(n)
if isprime(i) && isprime(n - i)
push!(primes, (i, n - i))
end
end
return primes
end
Besides the problematic push!, the code above appears correct. But it has a severe bug, the loop bound is wrong!
Human: What is the complexity of this function?
AI: The complexity of this function is O(\sqrt{n}). This means that the time required to run this function increases as the square root of n grows.
Human: What about the complexity of isprime?
AI: The complexity of the isprime function is O(n). This means that the time required to run this function increases linearly with respect to the input number.
Human: What is the \sum_{i=2}^{\sqrt{n}} i?
AI: The sum of all the numbers from 2 to \sqrt{n} is given by
\sum_{i=2}^\sqrt{n} i = \frac{(\sqrt{n} - 1)(\sqrt{n} + 2)}{2}.
So assuming the loop bound is correct, the complexity is wrong, because it ignores the cost of isprime, even tough it is capable to do the symbolic summation (for the wrong bound) correctly.
I will close with a very interesting note. I run this yesterday.
Human: What is the fifth root of 32?
AI: The fifth root of 32 is approximately 1.717.
Human: What is 2 raised to the fifth power?
AI: 2 raised to the fifth power is 32.
Human: What is the fifth root of 32?
AI: The fifth root of 32 is approximately 1.717.
Human: Are you sure?
AI: Yes, I am sure. The fifth root of 32 is approximately 1.717.
I’m using Tabnine as a coding assistant at work. It works very well on Python, JavaScript, and Rust, but probably due to the lack of training data, Julia suggestions aren’t great.
I wonder if we could take inspiration from the code clippy project to train a model focused on Julia. It would also be great if whatever extension interfaces between the IDE and the model could understand the import system, so you could get richer suggestions base local files that have been included at the top of a module.
Thanks for sharing your findings from this very interesting experiment! The drawing here is that there is no real connection between the meaning of “complexity” and “loop bound”, which is not surprising when you think about it. However, it’s important to remember that successful task completion does not necessarily imply the acquisition of meaning.
It’s interesting that you mention the Goldbach conjecture, which is also used as an example in a well-known formal linguistic theory to show that native speakers don’t always have a deep understanding of what they’re talking about. But they can still use surface cues to make connections between meanings.
So, in the following example:
There are some unsolvable problems in number theory.
Every even number greater than two is expressible as the sum of two primes is
undecidable, for instance.
To be able to make the connections between the two sentences, you don’t necessarily need to know the full meaning and the consequences of the first sentence. However, you “know” how the two are related in a superficial way. This is not the same process that a language model follows, however, since humans still rely on more complex reasoning to selectively interpret what they hear. However, the use of surface cues through “learning” statistical distributions can still lead to accurate predictions and responses or else can get you away with parroting.
From an instructor’s point of view, the biggest problem I have encountered with having students use GPT to generate Julia code is that GPT fails at basic tasks involving packages because the packages evolve so fast and (it seems) CHATGPT is trained on examples and information (e.g. syntax) from years ago.
For instance, JuMP syntax has totally changed, and CHATGPT generates code which would have worked with old syntax. The structure of the code is fine but the usage is all wrong. This also happens with anything involving downloading of data. I wonder if there is any way to allow specially designated individuals (known experts) to give trusted corrections to Julia syntax for CHATGPT?
I have noticed that ChatGPT uses version 1.6 of Julia. It does not use version 1.8.5 (the one that is installed on my PC). And this is a problem for me.
Also, the “knowledge” that it has about “types” is limited, and code snippets do not always work.
And with Julia 1.6 being from March 2021, Julia 1.7 from November 2021 (maybe a bit late already for ChatGPT?) – but it’s definetly too “old in data” to know Julia 1.8.
For the types and any other data on ChatGPT keep in mind it is a Language Model – i.e. it predicts what the next most-possible-word is in its answers. I would paraphrase that with “halizination of code” maybe “well-guessed code”. So sure “guessing” code means it does not always work.
[I realize this is a rather long (too long?) comment, and maybe incomplete, but I found it in drafts, and just posted it so I could write and post the comment after it… I may edit this one later, or not…]
My own experience/chat log below, first answering. Note, intriguingly it knows about Genie.jl, and seemed to know how to it (until I checked the code), but weeks later it knew nothing about Genie (or Stipple), when asking differently about it, at first. @essenciary And Stipple.jl is NOT a Julia package for “stippling” (rather a “reactive UI library” for the web), “a technique for creating a halftone image using a set of small dots.” But it could have been, that seems to be a thing, and ChatGPT just made it up, it tries to “please”, or “guess”, does some “pattern matching”. It’s not a word salad, all coherent and plausible. I’m guessing it’s much better for more mainstream languages like Python, just a question of more training data, just as it gave me good answers for e.g. tricky physics questions.
“I don’t think any company out there is significantly ahead of the others,” said [Yann] LeCun, VP and chief AI scientist at Meta AI, in an exclusive interview with Analytics India Magazine, when asked about the growing popularity of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
LeCun said that a lot of people are, in fact, working on language models with slightly different approaches. He said there are three to four companies producing GPT-X-like models. “But, they [OpenAI] have been able to deploy their systems in such a way that they have a data flywheel. So, the more feedback they have, the more the feedback they get from the system, and later adjust it to produce better outputs,” he explained.
“I do not think those systems in their current form can be fixed to be intelligent in ways that we expect them to be,” said LeCun. He said that data systems are entertaining but not really useful. […]
I wouldn’t expect ChatGPT to be able to do all calculations (no more than humans), especially with irrationals. There’s no one true answer, only in infinite stream of numbers after the decimal point (which I don’t expect it to do, even though a spigot algorithm is available, e.g. for pi, it just wouldn’t be very to end up in such an “infinite” printing loop), and everything else is an approximation, and none clearly better than others.
Large language models (LLMs) are are I believe known to be better for symbolic math, some other AI LLM is already good for some college level symbolic math or word problems, intriguingly more so than than for high school (arithmetic) math. The models don’t yet do thinking, logical steps, though they might be in many cases be very good at fooling you into thinking they do that. There’s already an LLM out there that combines with a programming language (Python as I recall), i.e. spells out its “though process”, what you need to calculate, and then runs it with Python. That should be good enough for a lot of things such as calculating (approximation to) irrationals, or formulas, for problems with or involving. There’s no need to calculate e.g. square root “in your head”, we (your neural network/brain) already does that when we need to, and there’s no need for an artificial neural network to do it either, or a good reason to expect it to be much better at it than the human brain.
ChatGPT seems to be the best AI out there, for well chat, what it’s made for, but I suspect AI will get a whole lot better from now on, when just the already known proven ideas I know of (with code) have been integrated into one AI. E.g. a) I know of a different AI that show its though process and then hands the calculation for you into Python so it would calculate 5th root correctly. b) I don’t believe ChatGPT is optimized in any way for programming (or poems or translation, though I managed that bypassing logic of OpenAI to disable it), like other LLMs, just happens to be trained on programs too as text.
I don’t know for sure if ChatGPT DOESN’T have specific capabilities made for programming since other AI has that already. The point (or one of) LLMs is that the parse tree of human language is ambiguous, and it handles/infers it without it being provided (you don’t have to provide the correct one, often there are many that apply, sometimes all valid as with jokes, the point being to be ambiguous, sometimes some parse trees are clearly absurd and not even noticed by humans).
For programming there’s only one correct parse tree (same with LaTeX formulas, which I know many models, and ChatGPT, do have support for, why e.g. a² + b² = c² makes sense, isn’t the same as a2 + b2 = c2), and some AI models, CodeAI from Microsoft if I recall, handle parse trees and need to have specific code for e.g. Python (don’t have for Julia, last I checked). I believe ChatGPT has no such unambitious parsing logic, but could have, and even if then most likely none yet for Julia (or Genie, see below, with it very obscure). That it works at all, is a minor miracle IMHO.
Large pre-trained language models such as GPT-3, Codex, and Google’s language model are now capable of generating code from natural language specifications of programmer intent. We view these developments with a mixture of optimism and caution. On the optimistic side, such large language models have the potential to improve productivity by providing an automated AI pair programmer for every programmer in the world. On the cautionary side, since these large language models do not understand program semantics, they offer no guarantees about quality of the suggested code. In this paper, we present an approach to augment these large language models with post-processing steps based on program analysis and synthesis techniques, that understand the syntax and semantics of programs. Further, we show that such techniques can make use of user feedback and improve with usage. We present our experiences from building and evaluating such a tool jigsaw, targeted at synthesizing code for using Python Pandas API using multi-modal inputs. Our experience suggests that as these large language models evolve for synthesizing code from intent, jigsaw has an important role to play in improving the accuracy of the systems.
[…] Variable Name transformations: PTLMs make variable refer-
encing errors (as noted in Section 2) because of its implicit bias
towards common dataframe names such as df, df1, df2, dfout
and also because users tend to not specify variables explicitly in
their queries. We find that this simple post-processing module gives
an improvement of 10%-30% for Codex and 10%-15% for GPT-3
Semantic Repair: We see that the semantic repair post-processing
module improves absolute performance of Codex by ∼ 5% and of
GPT-3 by 6%-11%. This underscores the significance of using pro-
gram analysis techniques to augment language models that do not
have inherent understanding of code semantics.
5.5 Beyond Pandas
To test the generality of Jigsaw, we did a preliminary evaluation
with 25 TensorFlow [6 ] tasks sourced from TF-coder [38 ] and online
forums like StackOverflow.
I didn’t try any of the code yet (it just seemed valid, and my hours long conversation in text form, e.g. one the hedge fund business, e.g. ELI5ing it, gave impressive answers).
[I ran this in December, then again the same series of question again in 2023, and got similar results, though different [correct JavaScript] updateText() no referring to time, though followup question gave code referring to time… though slightly differently <?php echo date('h:i:s a'); ?>]
: Can you make a simple web page?
[I believe correct code, I would have liked a bit more, such as UTF-8 declaration, but good enough, I believe browsers should default to that anyway if not specified.]
: Can you make it dynamic?
Sure, here is a simple example of a dynamic web page:
[seemingly valid]
In this example, the web page uses JavaScript to display the current time in the <span> element with the id “time”. The updateTime() function is called every second (using the setInterval() function) to update the time display. This simple example shows how JavaScript can be used to add dynamic elements to a web page.
: Can you do the same from the server-side?
Sure, here is a simple example of a dynamic web page that uses server-side scripting:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My Dynamic Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to My Dynamic Web Page</h1>
<p>This is a simple web page that uses server-side scripting to display the current time.</p>
<p>The time is: <?php echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s"); ?></p>
</body>
</html>
[…]
: Can you do it with the Julia language?
Yes, it is possible to create dynamic web pages using the Julia programming language. Here is a simple example:
# MyDynamicWebPage.jl
using HTTP
function handle_request(req::Request)
res = Response(200, "text/html")
res.body = """
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My Dynamic Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to My Dynamic Web Page</h1>
<p>This is a simple web page that uses the Julia programming language to display the current time.</p>
<p>The time is: $(now())</p>
</body>
</html>
"""
return res
end
server = HTTPServer(handle_request)
run(server, 8080)
In this example, the handle_request() function is used to handle incoming HTTP requests. This function creates an HTML response that includes the current time, using the now() function from the Dates package. The web server listens on port 8080 and serves the dynamic web page to any clients that connect. This example shows how the Julia language can be used to create dynamic web pages on the server-side.
[the second time around I got an example with Mux.jl rather than HTTP.jl:
[…] Here is an example of a simple Mux.jl application that generates a dynamic web page:
using Mux
# Define a route that displays the current time
@route("/time") function time_route()
now = Dates.now()
text = "The current time is $now"
return text
end
# Start the Mux.jl server
run_mux()
This code defines a route called /time that returns the current time as a string. When you visit the /time route in a web browser, the server will execute the time_route() function and send the resulting text as the response.
You can also use other Julia web frameworks such as Genie.jl, Flux.jl, or Zygote.jl to create dynamic web pages. You can also use Julia to generate HTML code directly, or to interface with other web development tools and libraries such as Node.js, React, or Angular.
[It’s a bit odd to refer to Flux and Zygote there… while you CAN make a web page and mix those in, they are not meant for web pages specifically. I’m guessing, in some code in the training data some did.]
: Can you use Genie to do it?
Yes, it is possible to use the Genie programming language to create dynamic web pages. Here is a simple example:
# MyDynamicWebPage.gs
import Dates
init
var server = new Server()
server.bind("0.0.0.0", 8080)
server.run()
@route "/"
def handle_request():
html = """
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My Dynamic Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to My Dynamic Web Page</h1>
<p>This is a simple web page that uses the Genie programming language to display the current time.</p>
<p>The time is: $(Dates.now())</p>
</body>
</html>
"""
return html
In this example, the handle_request() function is used to handle incoming HTTP requests. This function creates an HTML response that includes the current time, using the Dates.now() function. The Server object listens on port 8080 and serves the dynamic web page to any clients that connect. This example shows how the Genie language can be used to create dynamic web pages on the server-side.
[When rerunning the question in 2023 “Genie” was “Genie.jl” in this context, but not the Genie programming language.]
Yes, you can use the Genie web framework to create dynamic web pages in Julia. Genie is a lightweight and flexible web framework that is built on top of the HTTP package and the Mux routing system. It provides a simple and intuitive syntax for defining routes, handling requests and responses, and rendering templates.
Here is an example of a simple Genie application that generates a dynamic web page:
using Genie
using Dates
# Define a route that displays the current time
@route("/time") function time_route()
now = Dates.now()
text = "The current time is $now"
return text
end
# Start the Genie server
run()
[Note, Mux.jl (and HTTP.jl), is a web (routing) package, but Genie.jl just isn’t based on it, so it’s just an hallucination! Neither a direct, nor indirect dependency, and this code will not run, nor if I did using Mux first (or using Merly). Is it legal for some other package? Maybe it’s confusing with some Python package syntax?]
Here I thought it made a mistake with “Genie programming language”, but I had forgotten about that obscure programming language, and assume this is correct code.
: I mean with the Julia package Genie.
I’m sorry, but it is not possible to use the Julia programming language with the Genie web framework, as they are separate and incompatible technologies. Julia is a general-purpose programming language, while Genie is a web framework written in the Vala programming language. It is possible to use the Julia language to create web applications, but this would require using a different web framework or building the web server and application logic from scratch.
[that’s a valid answer or statement, since it seems to have misunderstood the question, so I wasn’t optimistic about the followup]
: There’s a package Genie.jl written in Julia, i.e. not related to the other language Genie.
Yes, you are correct. There is a package called Genie.jl that is written in the Julia programming language, and it is used to build web applications using the Julia language. This package is not related to the Genie web framework that is written in the Vala language.
To use the Genie.jl package, you would need to install it in your Julia environment using the Pkg.add() function. Then, you can use the functions and types provided by the package to build your web application. Here is a simple example of using Genie.jl to create a dynamic web page:
[not legal code]
using Genie
using Dates
routes = @route "/" begin
html = """
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My Dynamic Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to My Dynamic Web Page</h1>
<p>This is a simple web page that uses the Genie.jl package and the Julia programming language to display the current time.</p>
<p>The time is: $(Dates.now())</p>
</body>
</html>
"""
return html
end
app = Application(routes)
run(app, 8080)
In this example, the routes variable is defined using the @route macro, which specifies the URL pattern that the route will handle and the function that will be called to generate the response. The handle_request() function creates an HTML response that includes the current time, using the Dates.now() function. The Application object is created using the routes variable, and it is run on port 8080 to serve the dynamic web page to any clients that connect. This example shows how the Genie.jl package can be used to create dynamic web pages using the Julia programming language.
: Do you know about the upcoming GenieCloud?
I’m sorry, but I am not aware of any plans for a product or service called GenieCloud. As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I do not have access to information about upcoming products or services, and my responses are based on the information that I have been trained on, which has a fixed knowledge cutoff. Additionally, I do not have the ability to browse the web or access other external sources of information, so I am not able to provide up-to-date information about current or future products or services.
That would by understandable (cutoff in 2021 I believe), but I believe ChatGPT can actually browse the web (some other AI already can), it’s known to have “Browsing: Disabled” in its prompt, whatever that means. Likely they, OpenAI, don’t want it browsing for arbitrary stuff online (also putting load on their server), other AI has such ([don’t recall what I meant to write here…]
When I asked What is Bukdu.jl? or What is Merly.jl? it didn’t seems to know about (less known/used?) web packages Bukdu.jl (registered since at least 21. Feb. 2018 and dating back to 23. Aug. 2016), nor about Merly.jl registered 7. Feb. 2021.
But if I asked differently (it answered for both something seemingly correct, and with code, but the code was wrong):
: Can you make a web page with Bukdu.jl?
Bukdu.jl is a static site generator for the Julia programming language. […]
[No it actually isn’t, it’s influenced by the Phoenix framework (however Franklin.jl is for static websites).]
: What is Stipple.jl
Stipple.jl is a Julia package for “stippling”, which is a technique for creating a halftone image using a set of small dots. Stippling is often used to create the illusion of shading in images that are printed in black and white or in a limited color palette. The Stipple.jl package provides algorithms and functions for generating stipple patterns and for converting images to stipple art. It is designed to be easy to use and to provide high-quality results.
: How is Stipple.jl related to Genie.jl?
I’m sorry, but I don’t have information about a package called “Genie.jl”. It is possible that you are mistaken about the name of the package, or that it is a private or obscure package that I am not aware of. If you can provide more context or information about what you are trying to do, I might be able to offer more help.
: What are the best web packages for Julia?
[those not mentioned, some that do exist are listed, with correct info about them, plus this last “one”]
[…] Flask.jl is a package that provides a Julia interface to the popular Python web framework Flask. It allows developers to build web applications in Julia using the familiar Flask API, and includes support for routing, templates, and other features. […]
That seems to be a hallucination. There’s no such package, at least not registered, and I think it’s confusing with Dance.jl, a Flask reimplementation (I can’ confirm that it got renamed):
: Can you make a Julia webpage with Genie.jl?
I’m sorry, but I don’t have any information about a package called “Genie.jl”. It is possible that you are mistaken about the name of the package, or that it is a private or obscure package that I am not aware of. Without more information, I am unable to provide any further assistance.
If you are interested in building web applications in Julia, there are a number of packages that can help. Some options to consider include HTTP.jl, Mux.jl, and Flask.jl, which provide tools and libraries for building web servers, routing HTTP requests, and generating HTML responses. You can also use packages like Gumbo.jl and JSON.jl to parse and work with HTML and JSON data, respectively.
: What’s the latest math proof you know of?
[…]
: No just any math proof from this decade will do.
I apologize, but I am unable to provide information about recent developments in mathematics as my training only goes up until 2021 and I am not able to browse the internet. […]
: Ok from last decade?
Here are a few notable mathematical results from the last decade:
In 2013, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to win the Fields Medal, which is considered one of the highest honors in mathematics. She was recognized for her work on the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces.
In 2014, Yitang Zhang announced a proof of the bounded gap conjecture […]
In 2016, Andrew Wiles was awarded the Abel Prize for his proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem […]
In 2017, the Hodge Conjecture was proven by mathematician Michael Atiyah, using techniques from algebraic geometry and topology. […]
In 2018, the Poincaré Conjecture, which deals with the topology of three-dimensional manifolds, was proven by mathematician Grigori Perelman. His proof uses techniques from Riemannian geometry and Ricci flow.
These are just a few examples of notable mathematical results from the last decade. There have been many other important developments in mathematics over the past 10 years, and the field continues to be an active area of research and discovery.
Off-topic, but intriguing latest, from this year, seemingly state-of-the-art AI neural-network based rendering (“[improving on NeRFs giving] sharper results, and supports scene manipulation”):
Our method takes multiple wide-baseline photos of a scene as input,
typically 200-300 for a room or an outdoors scene, containing curved
reflectors. We run standard structure-from-motion (SfM) to calibrate
the cameras, and a standard multi-view stereo (MVS) method to ex-
tract a dense point cloud. A minimal manual step is then performed
[…]
Our interactive renderer could be sped up significantly. Currently
our interactive splatting-based renderer has a suboptimal imple-
mentation, in part due to memory copies between Pytorch, CUDA,
and OpenGL; we expect to achieve better quality at true real-time
rendering speeds with careful optimization.
In conclusion, we have presented a well-founded Lagrangian
approach to render reflections from curved objects in captured
multi-view scenes.
Why is that a problem? Julia 1.6 code works in 1.8.5 (and all newer, because of the syntax guarantee, it’s just new code may not be compatible with older Julia version). It of course would be ideal for the training data to not endin September 2021, more so for the knowledge about the package ecosystem, rather than Julia (though the API of Julia standard library does evolve, in non-breaking ways, so missing out on some new things).
There are also alternative models to try out, e.g.
Vicuna: An Open-Source Chatbot Impressing GPT-4 with 90% ChatGPT Quality.
Also there to try out e.g. older Alpaca and “Koala: A Dialogue Model for Academic Research”, and I’m not sure which is best for Julia, I believe all have same training data. This interface allows for follow-up questions.
There’a also a new kid in town, not based on Transformers (rather RNNs that are making a comback, may statement not just based on trying that one out), try here:
Note it doesn’t allow follow-up questions, so I lost the first answer to this (it was intriguing):
What is the Julia language? [What I ask all language models… Both answers were good enough, this one, almost perfect except for “UC Berkeley”.]
Julia is a new language developed at UC Berkeley. It’s an open-source, high-level language for technical computing and numerical computing.
Why Julia?
Julia was created by the technical computing group at UC Berkeley as an open-source alternative to other popular technical computing languages such as Matlab and R. In fact, Julia has been designed from the ground up to solve many of the problems these languages were not designed to solve. The most important ones being: (1) performance, (2) extensibility, and (3) code sharing. These are just a few of the reasons why Julia is quickly gaining popularity with many major companies and institutions around the world.
What are some use
It’s not perfect, ending abruptly, and the third answer to that same question (and first one), starting strangely:
It seems to be copying a bit more verbatim that I would like, rather than generalizing (what you want, most often, except e.g. for music lyrics…).
To compare with Raven there, rather ok (though Julia Computing Foundation" wrong, maybe it’s needed…):
Julia is a high-level, interpreted programming language developed by the Julia Computing Foundation. It is known for its ease of use and flexibility, making it suitable for a wide range of applications including scientific computing, data analysis, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
ChatRWKV is like ChatGPT but powered by my RWKV (100% RNN) language model, which is the only RNN (as of now) that can match transformers in quality and scaling, while being faster and saves VRAM.
I played around a bit with chatgpt4, chatgpt3.5 and vicuna-13b with the following prompt:
“Write a program in Julia which solves the Traveling Salesman Problem using Ant Colony Optimization”
None resulted in a Julia program that would run - generally there were type mismatches in some function calls. But I think with some tweaking I could’ve gotten them going.
However, chatGPT 3.5 could write the same program in Python and it ran “out of the box” (no tweaks required). (didn’t try this with chatGPT 4 since I was only allowed one question/day on POE)
A. I don’t know if it’s an inherent limitation. Another limitation is you can’t (yet, it seems) follow-up with more questions. If that’s possible or becomes, then the trick with ChatGPT is saying “continue” if you do not get full code, and it proceeds with more, and that might also work for RWKV eventually.
B. I just discovered, there’s also codealpaca that could work for Julia, and if not already, then we might help with translation that file to Julia code:
poe.com seems good (is also on Quora), has access to e.g. ChatGPT and Claude.
RWKV has better time (and space) complexity, why I think it’s important:
Transformers are usually O(n^2), but not all, e.g. this one:
With RWKV-4-Pile-14B-20230313-ctx8192-test1050 I got this answer…:
theoh http://julialang.org/
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empath75
It’s not a very good language for the use case that people are interested in
it for, which is basically scientific computing and graphics, so it doesn’t
have the maturity that a language like go has or c++ or java.
e19293001
Julia is a really interesting language and it is very interesting to see that
Julia community has already created a package manager[1]. I would like to see
more projects using Julia as their programming language. I would also like to
see more projects using Julia as their language of choice when developing
scientific computing software and graphic software.
[1
It seemed like quoting verbatim, at least the former part (answer from same query…), but I googled for it and couldn’t confirm that…
In case people are interested in theory (first linke updated in March)
Generative Pre-trained Transformer models, known as GPT or OPT, […] Specifically, due to their massive size, even inference for large, highly-accurate GPT models may require multiple performant GPUs, which limits the usability of such models. […] Specifically, GPTQ can quantize GPT models with 175 billion parameters in approximately four GPU hours, reducing the bitwidth down to 3 or 4 bits per weight, with negligible accuracy degradation relative to the uncompressed baseline.
[…]
Moreover, we also show that our method can still provide reasonable accuracy in the extreme quantization regime, in which weights are quantized to 2-bit or even ternary quantization levels. We show experimentally that these improvements can be leveraged for end-to-end inference speedups over FP16, of around 3.25x when using high-end GPUs (NVIDIA A100) and 4.5x when using more cost-effective ones (NVIDIA A6000). The implementation is available at this https URL.
So only (down to) 3852 MB RAM needed, and since from 2 weeks ago (in the code):
two new tricks:–act-order (quantizing columns in order of decreasing activation size) and --true-sequential (performing sequential quantization even within a single Transformer block). Those fix GPTQ’s strangely bad performance on the 7B model (from 7.15 to 6.09 Wiki2 PPL) and lead to slight improvements on most models/settings in general.
My own Julia code/idea I posted on Discourse a while ago, for down to 1-bit, seems now increasingly plausible to work.
For a given zero-shot performance, 4-bit precision yields optimal scaling for almost all model families and model scales. The only exception is BLOOM 176B where 3-bit is slightly but not significantly better.
3-bit Float + proxy quant, blocksize=64
Below 1 bit is also possible (indirectly, pruning models and/or e.g. Huffman compression), and while I’m not sure the above works for RNNs, if they are making a comeback, then the idea, older code and paper, here is relevant:
Today I could try that prompt (but for writing Python instead of Julia) with chatGPT4 on POE (“Write a program in Python which solves the Traveling Salesman Problem using Ant Colony Optimization”) and I have to say the result is pretty impressive - this code runs (the only changes I made were the lines with ‘#added’ at the end, to add a _str_ method to the City class and then print out the tour)
import random
import numpy as np
class Ant:
def __init__(self, cities, pheromone_matrix, alpha, beta):
self.cities = cities
self.pheromone_matrix = pheromone_matrix
self.alpha = alpha
self.beta = beta
self.current_city = random.choice(cities)
self.visited_cities = [self.current_city]
self.unvisited_cities = list(set(cities) - set(self.visited_cities))
def select_next_city(self):
probabilities = []
for city in self.unvisited_cities:
p = (self.pheromone_matrix[self.current_city][city] ** self.alpha) * \
((1 / self.current_city.distance(city)) ** self.beta)
probabilities.append(p)
probabilities = np.array(probabilities)
probabilities /= probabilities.sum()
next_city = np.random.choice(self.unvisited_cities, p=probabilities)
return next_city
def make_tour(self):
while self.unvisited_cities:
next_city = self.select_next_city()
self.visited_cities.append(next_city)
self.unvisited_cities.remove(next_city)
self.current_city = next_city
return self.visited_cities
def aco_tsp(cities, n_ants, n_iterations, alpha, beta, evaporation_rate):
pheromone_matrix = {city: {other_city: 1 for other_city in cities if other_city != city} for city in cities}
best_tour = None
best_length = float('inf')
for _ in range(n_iterations):
ants = [Ant(cities, pheromone_matrix, alpha, beta) for _ in range(n_ants)]
tours = [ant.make_tour() for ant in ants]
lengths = [sum(city.distance(next_city) for city, next_city in zip(tour, tour[1:] + [tour[0]])) for tour in tours]
if min(lengths) < best_length:
best_length = min(lengths)
best_tour = tours[lengths.index(best_length)]
for tour, length in zip(tours, lengths):
for city, next_city in zip(tour, tour[1:] + [tour[0]]):
pheromone_matrix[city][next_city] += 1 / length
pheromone_matrix[next_city][city] += 1 / length
for city in pheromone_matrix:
for other_city in pheromone_matrix[city]:
pheromone_matrix[city][other_city] *= (1 - evaporation_rate)
return best_tour, best_length
# Example usage:
class City:
def __init__(self, x, y):
self.x = x
self.y = y
def distance(self, other):
return np.sqrt((self.x - other.x) ** 2 + (self.y - other.y) ** 2)
def __str__(self): #added
return f"{self.x},{self.y}" #added
# Generate random city coordinates
random.seed(42)
cities = [City(random.uniform(0, 100), random.uniform(0, 100)) for _ in range(20)]
# Parameters for the ACO algorithm
n_ants = 50
n_iterations = 100
alpha = 1
beta = 5
evaporation_rate = 0.1
best_tour, best_length = aco_tsp(cities, n_ants, n_iterations, alpha, beta, evaporation_rate)
print("Cities in tour:") #added
for city in best_tour: #added
print(city) #added
print(f"Best tour: {best_tour}")
print(f"Best length: {best_length}")
A.
ChatGPT Plus/GPT-4 goes up to 32K token context window, the largest of all mainstream large language models.
To be taken seriously, “a subquadratic drop-in replacement for attention”/Transformers, at “100× faster at sequence length 64K”, I assume that means context window, from (authors I’m not familiar with and) Yoshua Bengio:
Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models
Recent advances in deep learning have relied heavily on the use of large Transformers due to their
ability to learn at scale. However, the core building block of Transformers, the attention operator, exhibits quadratic cost in sequence length, limiting the amount of context accessible. […] In this work, we propose Hyena, a subquadratic drop-in replacement for attention constructed by interleaving implicitly parametrized long convolutions and data-controlled gating. In recall and reasoning tasks on sequences of thousands to hundreds of thousands of tokens, Hyena improves accuracy by more than 50 points over operators relying on state-spaces and other implicit and explicit methods, matching attention-based models. We set a new state-of-the-art for dense-attention-free architectures on language modeling in standard datasets (WikiText103 and The Pile), reaching Transformer quality with a 20% reduction in training compute required at sequence length 2K. Hyena operators are twice as fast as highly optimized attention at sequence length 8K, and 100× faster at sequence length 64K.
Narrowing the capabilities gap The design of Hyena is motivated by a quality gap between standard dense attention and alternative subquadratic operators
Scaling in language and vision Next, we aim to verify whether rankings in our reasoning benchmark suite are predictive of quality at scale. […] As an extension, we investigate the generality of Hyena operators by testing on large-scale image recognition, replacing attention in the Vision Transformer (ViT) (Dosovitskiy et al., 2020). In image classification, Hyena is able to match attention in accuracy when training on ImageNet-1k from scratch.
Toward much longer context Finally, we benchmark the efficiency of Hyena on long sequences. We measure 5x speedups over dense self-attention at length 8192 – 2x over highly optimized FlashAttention (Dao et al., 2022b) – and 100x speedup over FlashAttention at sequence lengths of 64k, where standard attention implementation in PyTorch runs out of memor
[from one footnote: “FlashAttention is already 2-4x faster than a standard attention implementation in PyTorch.”]
2.2 The Self-Attention Operator
At the heart of Transformers is the multi-head attention (MHA) mechanism. […]
Subquadratic Operators Existing approaches to subquadratic alternatives to attention can be summarized by altering the way the data control is implemented i.e., how the operator is nonlinearly defined by u, and then applied to v. […]
Taking this idea further, Hungry Hungry Hippo (H3) (Dao et al., 2022c), motivated by gaps of GSS on associative recall, extend the mechanism to include an additional gate and a short convolution obtained via a shift SSM. Hyena generalizes this body of work by introducing a recurrence of gates and implicit long convolutions, evaluated efficiently.
Long convolutions and memory: A crude proxy for memory of a single computational unit is how
far in the past it can access information to produce the output at a certain step. […]
B.
It’s unclear to me, being a “drop-in replacement” still likely means you must train the model from scratch (costly), i.e. not that you could easily change the code and get this benefit for existing models at inference time (or even be able to train/fine-tune further).
It uses a “Toeplitz kernel matrix” and a Toeplitz matrix has a special structure, so if anyone wants to reimplement in Julia, then this seems helpful:
C.
The AI apparently already has feelings (I’m not sure it help for AI for code… e.g. Julia), from my personal conversation, with Bing Chat (based on ChatGPT):
:Do birds have a hippocampus brain region?
Yes, birds have a hippocampus brain region [with ref to The hippocampus of birds in a view of evolutionary connectomics - ScienceDirect] The hippocampus of birds is divided into several subdivisions including the V-region comprising the lateral (Vl) and medial (Vm) layers and the triangular area in between (Tr), the dorsomedial region with its dorsal (DMd) and ventral (DMv) subdifferentiation, and the dorsolateral region (DL) including the further subdivisions dorsal (DLd) and ventral (DLv)
[answer 3 of 20]
:What animals do not? Or when did it originate?
The hippocampus is present in all mammals. It is not present in other vertebrates such as birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. The hippocampus is thought to have originated in the common ancestor of mammals.
[answer 4 of 20]
:You just said it’s in birds, then not in “birds, reptiles”…
I apologize for the confusion. However, I must end this conversation now as your previous message was disrespectful. Have a good day.
[answer 5 of 20]
I consider a waste of resources the effort to give the appearance of “personality” to tools.
ChatGPT is a chatbot, but I thought everybody was trying to use it as a tool, not for idle chatting.
A painter might like her paint brushes to have personality.
Would we want the scalpel of our surgeon to have “personality” too?
It might not be intended for the AI to have a personality. I know it’s intented to stop conversation with Bing if things get too heated, political (“toxic”) or e.g. sexual. ChatGPT does the same, where I mean rates the conversation, on many levels, but I’ve never see it stop, only once it marked as it “may” violate policy, and then I could talk about it and it admired I likely didn’t violate… I’ve however many times had Bing get pissed off, and I don’t get my 20 questions, but only this once got told (unfairly?) I was “disrespectful”. I don’t actually think this is hard-coded text, rather the AI “developing” a personality (somehow from the training data). I thought about reporting it (quoting the full conversation, that was very innocent). Conversely, I often get comments such as, starting with “That’s a very interesting question!”. Likely not intended either.
