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ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

#41

Confirmation that Google is dead.

Not really. I've asked chat several questions where it simply lied to me. I used Google to confirm if the info is actually correct.

WolframAlpha makes it way more likely to be correct - but not everything is in there.

Also, now I'm worried about the stuff I didn't instantly recognize as false. Does this mean I have to double check every single thing I ask it?

That makes it far less useful.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

#46

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

The superpowers of MacOS are considerably stronger than anything MS-DOS ever offered.

That is their point.

But it's not an apt comparison. Wolfram Alpha has was GPT does not: truth and logic.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

#47
post #44

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.

You greatly overestimate worker's ability / desire to learn.

A whole lot of us learned how to use the Internet, cell phones, etc. I bet a lot of folks will easily take to an AI/LLM they can converse with.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

#48
post #32

Confirmation that Google is dead.

For the first time in a decade they have a viable competitor. They must figure it out and I'm confident they will. They understand they're quite literally are facing extinction. I'm sure they're in focused mode since the original ChatGPT announcement, this should get them into proper creative panic mode.

They missed the first-mover advantage with Cloud, and they're now more and more obviously missing it with public AI tools.

What's worrying is how Microsoft and Openai are constantly announcing and pushing great stuff live. It makes whatever announcements from Google look minor.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

#49
It generating useful Wolfram Code and calling the API would be good but chatgpt being able to generate prompts for a much less expressive but more accurate (if it works) doesn't seem like that much of a step
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