I'm getting chills. We are entering a new era fast.
ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha
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#12Looks like "How to use MS-DOS superpowers on your MacOS".
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#13Confirmation that Google is dead.
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#14Very cool. Effectively, ChatGPT is using tools now. I wonder how much longer before it evolves opposable thumbs :)
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#15How long before we see a material impact on GDP?
It seems like basically every knowledge worker can and will augment their workflows with this tech.
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#16So this ( https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ecosystem/wolfram... ) now native in ChatGPT
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#17This is mind blowing. No mention of "cost" or "price" though, I wonder what we'll be looking for (subscription, or per-use).
I think there are two issues here.
1) No one knows how much customers are willing to pay for something like this.
Like if suddenly you developed a commercially viable plane in 1903, what would people pay for flight service?
2) No one knows the actual cost to operate this when considering TCO.
How much of the training cost do we recoup? What is the inference cost for the average one of the questions Wolfram+GPT will be asked.
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#18This will be wild in a few months when it has a shit ton of extensions built in
And also whenever the next iteration bootstraps off the Wolfram outputs so it no longer has to call Wolfram & can better generalize/learn thanks to it...
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#19It will not matter what ChatGPT (et al.) will cost in the future. If you don't have it you're toast.
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#20Wolfram Alpha was my ChatGPT when I was in school. And many of the same issues ("how will kids learn math now?") were raised at the time. ...Yeah, this seems like a great match, no complaints from me. Those kinds of responses are exactly what LLMs need.
Wolfram Alpha was (at least initially) famously bad* at actually parsing natural language. For math, it was much easier to enter raw Mathematica expression into Wolfram Alpha than structuring the question in natural language. LLMs should give it a boost, by simplifying the kind of the natural language input into the limited forms parsable by Wolfram Alpha.
*: And I say this as a paying customer of Mathematica on my computer and Wolfram Alpha on my phone.