Decentralized data startup Space and Time, backed by Microsoft’s venture arm and Hashkey Capital, has integrated a chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-4, the latest version of ChatGPT, to make it easier for developers to maintain and query databases. The chatbot, called Houston, will allow users to generate SQL or Python scripts from natural-language prompts, ask questions about data, and get back an accurate visualization of the answer.
Space and Time users can generate SQL or Python scripts from prompts, ask natural-language questions about data and get back an accurate visualization of the answer and load in new datasets, all by simply conversing with our chatbot, said Scott Dykstra, CTO and co-founder of the startup.
The data warehouse is powered by zero-knowledge proofs (ZKs), a type of cryptographic proof that can prove the validity of a statement while only selectively revealing any information about the statement itself. Space and Time’s technology, proof-of-SQL, allows the data warehouse to generate a SNARK cryptographic proof of SQL query execution, proving that query computation was done accurately and that both the query and the data are verifiably tamperproof, according to its website.
Houston also presents the SQL code generated through a natural-language prompt so that it can be examined, and creates visual representations of the query and the results, said Nate Holiday, the startup’s co-founder and CEO.
The integration of the chatbot using OpenAI’s ChatGPT will make it easier to maintain and query databases using natural-language prompts, as opposed to having to write code, said Dykstra.