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Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this

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Re: Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this

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Post by wannabag »

I had the exact same use case two weeks ago but I had received a pdf file from school and was sitting at a cafe with only my phone.

I use ChatGPT, and while the article is correct to say that it will claim that it cannot generate .ics files directly in the code interpreter it is however very much capable of solving this particular problem. I did the following (all on my android phone):

1. Had it extract all the useful dates, times and comments from the pdf 2. Prompted it to generate the ics file formatted content as code output 3. Prompted it to use the code interpreter to put this content into a file and save it as a .ics extension

It complied through and through and I could download and open the file with the gcal app on my phone to import all appointments..

For completeness, the claim that the code interpreter cannot "generate" ics files is because the python environment in which it runs doesn't have a specific library for doing so. ICS files are just text files with a specific format, so definitely not out of reach.

Re: Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this

#12

Post by cdrini »

This is phenomenal! And also highlights a design pattern which I'm hoping becomes even more popular because of AI: interoperable human readable file formats! Things like .ICS files. I'd love to see more websites/apps prioritise supporting these sorts of things, since it make it really easy to plug/play and use AI, but also just empowers more people to get creative/build extensions.

There's been a bit of a trend to more silo'd data, and a deemphasis on files entirely in the last ~decade in the name of "simplicity". I'd love to see that backtrack a bit.

Re: Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this

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Post by gw5815 »

wannabag wrote: post #11

I had the exact same use case two weeks ago but I had received a pdf file from school and was sitting at a cafe with only my phone. I use ChatGPT, and while the article is correct to say that it will claim that it cannot generate .ics files directly in the code interpreter it is however very much capable of solving this particular problem. I did the following (all on my android phone): 1. Had it extract all the usefu…

Yeah, Claude.ai just gave me the text that I simply saved as a my.ics file. I wonder if I could reword the prompt to get chatgpt to do it.

Re: Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this

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Post by weissi »

wannabag wrote: post #11

I had the exact same use case two weeks ago but I had received a pdf file from school and was sitting at a cafe with only my phone. I use ChatGPT, and while the article is correct to say that it will claim that it cannot generate .ics files directly in the code interpreter it is however very much capable of solving this particular problem. I did the following (all on my android phone): 1. Had it extract all the usefu…

Interesting, maybe ChatGPT got more reluctant to spit out ics? Didn't have to try very hard back in May: https://chatgpt.com/share/0848349d-4b0b-40f8-9d24-e9c4ffc065...

Re: Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this

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Post by zoover2020 »

romeros wrote: post #9
buro9 wrote: post #7

I'm finding Claude to hallucinate less than ChatGPT, and to be far more accurate at coding than CoPilot. Pleasantly surprised on both counts. Example hallucinations from ChatGPT include researching the dates of historical events for the company I work at, trivially verifiable by me but I was being lazy... ChatGPT told me about blog posts that never existed and I could prove never existed, Claude was spot on with date…

For some reason I felt Claude was Yahoo to ChatGPT's Google in the initial days. It just felt like ChatGPT had an insurmountable moat. I played with Claude and it is just insanely superior compared to ChatGpt as of now. Someone on HN commented the same thing a few months back but I did not take it very seriously. But, Claude is just superior to Chatgpt.

I've felt this for a long time, been using Claude for over a year now internally - super impressed w/ it from the start and the 3.5 model is blazingly fast. Which version of C-GPT did you compare it to?

Re: Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this

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Post by wenc »

romeros wrote: post #9
buro9 wrote: post #7

I'm finding Claude to hallucinate less than ChatGPT, and to be far more accurate at coding than CoPilot. Pleasantly surprised on both counts. Example hallucinations from ChatGPT include researching the dates of historical events for the company I work at, trivially verifiable by me but I was being lazy... ChatGPT told me about blog posts that never existed and I could prove never existed, Claude was spot on with date…

For some reason I felt Claude was Yahoo to ChatGPT's Google in the initial days. It just felt like ChatGPT had an insurmountable moat. I played with Claude and it is just insanely superior compared to ChatGpt as of now. Someone on HN commented the same thing a few months back but I did not take it very seriously. But, Claude is just superior to Chatgpt.

I pay for both Claude and ChatGPT.

Claude 3.5 is now my daily driver but it still refuses to answer certain questions especially about geopolitics so I still have to go back to ChatGPT.

I don’t agree that Claude is insanely superior to ChatGPT though. It still has trouble with LaTeX and optimization formulations. Its coding abilities are good but sometimes ChatGPT does better.

This is why I keep both subscriptions. At $40/math I get the best of both worlds.

Re: Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this

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Post by sen »

I did a similar thing with ChatGPT-4o giving it a txt file list of movie names, and it returned the release date of each one, then gave me an iCal file of all those movies with their release dates as recurring yearly anniversary events so I can watch my favorite movies on their anniversary.

I’ve done it for a few friends as well now and it’s got a 100% success rate so far, across over 100 total movie names.

Re: Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this

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Post by dzhiurgis »

romeros wrote: post #9
buro9 wrote: post #7

I'm finding Claude to hallucinate less than ChatGPT, and to be far more accurate at coding than CoPilot. Pleasantly surprised on both counts. Example hallucinations from ChatGPT include researching the dates of historical events for the company I work at, trivially verifiable by me but I was being lazy... ChatGPT told me about blog posts that never existed and I could prove never existed, Claude was spot on with date…

For some reason I felt Claude was Yahoo to ChatGPT's Google in the initial days. It just felt like ChatGPT had an insurmountable moat. I played with Claude and it is just insanely superior compared to ChatGpt as of now. Someone on HN commented the same thing a few months back but I did not take it very seriously. But, Claude is just superior to Chatgpt.

Claude’s recent code preview rocks, especially for basic web design (well, not so basic - it was able to design 3d animated svg of winamp).

ChatGPT’s code interpreter and data analysis is killer too.

Seems I’ll need to keep paying for both.

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