May 26, 2021 11:56:00

Microsoft announced that it will integrate the sentence generation AI 'GPT-3' into a business application creation tool, making it possible to create applications in sentence format

Microsoft announced that it will integrate the

sentence generation AI 'GPT-3 ' that can create high-precision sentences into the business application creation tool ' Microsoft Power Apps'. As a result, even users who do not have coding knowledge will be able to create apps in text format.

From conversation to code: Microsoft introduces its first product features powered by GPT-3 --The AI Blog
https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/from-conversation-to-code-microsoft-introduces-its-first-product-features-powered-by-gpt-3/

Microsoft has built an AI-powered autocomplete for code using GPT-3 --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/25/22451144/microsoft-gpt-3-openai-coding-autocomplete-powerapps-power-fx

In September 2020, Microsoft expanded its ongoing partnership with OpenAI to obtain an exclusive license for GPT-3. 'I think it's a great opportunity to expand the Azure-based AI platform,' said Kevin Scott, executive vice president of Microsoft, using it in the cloud computing business 'Microsoft Azure.' I was suggesting.

Microsoft acquires exclusive license for world-class language model 'GPT-3' --GIGAZINE

And on May 25, 2021, Microsoft announced the integration of GPT-3 into Microsoft Power Apps. Microsoft Power Apps is a service provided as a software suite for enterprise customers to create 'low-code and no-code' apps, and even companies that cannot hire skilled programmers can analyze, visualize, and work on data. It is possible to create an application that automates.

Microsoft Power Apps adopts a programming language for low-code development called 'Microsoft Power Fx ', which has its roots in spreadsheet software Microsoft Excel , and you can create apps with intuitive operations like PowerPoint. Basically, you can create an app by dragging or clicking, but to create a complicated data query, you had to understand PowerFx and do some coding.

Therefore, Microsoft decided to add a function to support the creation of complex data queries in text format by integrating GPT-3, which is a text generation AI, into Microsoft Power Apps. This allows users to 'find products whose names start with'kids'' and 'display 10 orders with' stroller 'in their product name and sort them with the latest purchase date at the top.' Microsoft explains that just typing something like this will create the right code.

For example, if you enter 'Show me the Customers from the US whose subscription is expired' ...

Microsoft Power Apps, which implements the support function installed in GPT-3, displays the appropriate PowerFx code according to the text. Charles Lamanna, Microsoft's low-code app creation platform, said, 'Using such an advanced AI model has made our low-code tools truly what we call no-code, and to more people. It will be used. '

Since it is not uncommon for small errors to affect the entire system in ordinary programming languages, the point that 'AI support tools can generate errors' was an obstacle to the introduction. However, since PowerFx adopted by Microsoft Power Apps is a simple programming language based on Excel, it is said that although it is inflexible, errors due to AI support tools are unlikely to occur, so auto using GPT-3 It seems that it is suitable for adopting the complete function.

Lamanna told the foreign media The Verge, 'There is a great demand for digital solutions, but we don't have enough coders. There is a shortage of millions of developers in the US alone. Instead of letting them learn how to do it, why not let the development environment speak ordinary human language? ' The new features using GPT-3 will be available in preview throughout North America by the end of June 2021.

The technique of integrating GPT-3 into app creation tools will save millions of users and allow people without programming language knowledge to build apps that they couldn't build before. I will. Lamanna said he felt horrifying when he first used the prototype of the GPT-3 assistive tool, saying, 'I haven't felt this way with technology for a long time.' I am.

It has been pointed out that sentence generation AI such as GPT-3 has

various biases due to problems such as datasets used for training, but Microsoft has created a list of words and phrases that support tools do not respond to. It is said that it is taking measures such as installing a filter to detect the creation of an application that seems to have a problem.

Microsoft also plans to extend PowerFx to tools other than Microsoft Power Apps, and GPT-3 support tools will be extended to other products. The Verge noted that PowerFx was an Excel-based programming language and said that Excel could eventually integrate similar functionality.