ChatGPT is amazing
Just sharing a short experiment with ChatGPT.
I am in the middle of developing a training package on AI/ Generative AI, something simple for non-tech people. The challenge is to convey complex ideas in a simple manner for a non-technical audience.
As part of this training, I wanted to create a slide that shows a very simple linear regression along with how to measurement error.
So I started "googling" looking for images and this is what I got:
This was exactly what I was looking for, except that all the images in these articles are copyrighted and I could not use them in a training material that will probably be posted on the web (been there before and had to pay some $$ to Getty).
What were my options?
spend time looking at all these sites and see whether I could use a “free from copyright image”
create the slide from scratch. I’m not that proficient on powerpoint so it would take me easy 1-2 hours to make something nice… and correct!
None of this is very exciting. So I decided to look at it differently.
I went on a real estate portal, collected 15 listings of houses on the market in Grenoble along with the surface an price and I asked ChatGPT to perform the linear regression and plot the outcome.
Bingo, it took me 10mn to do that and the result is perfect
The result? In just 10 minutes, I had a custom-made, accurate, and copyright-free illustration of linear regression.
But why stop there? To add a dynamic element, I asked ChatGPT to generate an animation demonstrating the progressive improvement of the regression line. This visual was intended to simulate the concept of 'learning' within the AI model.
[ I know that for the data science purists, this is a simplification—after all, in reality, the optimal solution is often computed in one step via the "normal equation."]
Despite this, the value of the animation is really good. It provided a clear way to visualize how a model adjusts to data over time, an essential aspect of machine learning.
Nevertheless, I find it amazing that it was faster and much more interesting to build a linear model than work on powerpoint.
ChatGPT is really amazing.