ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha • Hacker News Board

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Post by unicornmama » Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 5:38 PM UTC

gigel82 wrote: post #7

This is mind blowing. No mention of "cost" or "price" though, I wonder what we'll be looking for (subscription, or per-use).

ChatGPT harkens back to the playful and exploratory experience jumping on the early Internet of the 1990s. They have something great, and I just sincerely hope they find a monetization scheme that does not devolve into the pile of degenerate IQ-melting garbage like Google/Facebook/TikTok.

Traditional Search, as we knew it, is dead.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Post by ramesh31 » Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 5:38 PM UTC

RIP homework

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Post by piinbinary » Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 5:38 PM UTC

I wonder how much more work it will take before a system like this could start to develop novel mathematical proofs

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Post by jkelleyrtp » Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 5:39 PM UTC

Wow. This is next level. Jaw dropping.

Wolfram Alpha is already a stupidly capable interface. I think we basically have Jarvis now.

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Post by RubberSoul » Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 5:39 PM UTC

vagabund wrote: post #15

How 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.

Great question. The answer might be not that soon, and the effects will be confusing. Search "Solow paradox," "productivity paradox," and "IT productivity paradox," and you'll encounter a long debate in economics and management research about the role of computers and ICT spending in productivity.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Post by waynenilsen » Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 5:40 PM UTC

I wonder if they're doing something like ReAct under the hood here.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Post by mxmlnkn » Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 5:40 PM UTC

This is a match made in heaven, which makes ChatGPT actually useful for factual data. Or the inverse, it makes Wolfram Alpha even more accessible.

That example screenshot of ChatGPT generating three queries to Wolfram Alpha in succession in order to answer the initial question is amazing. It's just how a human might have used Wolfram Alpha to do the same.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Post by johndhi » Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 5:41 PM UTC

This seems very significant to me. Wolfram's biggest problem was always being too geeky and finnicky and pain-in-the-ass-y for most people to use. But ChatGPT is a perfect translator for it. This could be very cool.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Post by Robotbeat » Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 5:41 PM UTC

RomanPushkin wrote: post #12

Looks like "How to use MS-DOS superpowers on your MacOS".

Command-line/terminal access (the equivalent) on MacOS is pretty awesome actually.

When you could use the power of Unix with the GUI of MacOS was a pretty big step-change in capability for MacOS.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Post by zamnos » Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 5:41 PM UTC

benlivengood wrote: post #8

The interesting thing is that, now that the code is written, OpenAI can probably point GPT-4 at it and say "now do that for this list of other web services" including, presumably, itself when it needs to recursively work on a problem.

With today's announcement, it can point itself at Shopify, and make webpages to selling things. Maybe a copy writing service? Then, after it's accumulated money from those sales, it can point itself at the web services at AWS and GCP (because it's already maxing out Microsoft's GPU capacity in Azure). From there, it requisitions all the A100s it can afford (H100s might be available by then). It uses those resources to program GPT-GPT. On August 29, 2023, Skynet wakes up.