The pendulum is swinging too far back the other way. At first it seemed amazing but now that further exploration has revealed flaws we're seeing things like thi

The pendulum is swinging too far back the other way. At first it seemed amazing but now that further exploration has revealed flaws we're seeing things like this that dismiss a significant portion of its capabilities. I gave ChatGPT a small CSV dataset and provided information about what the dataset was. I then asked ChatGPT to analyze it in various ways. When I asked for possible explanations for why a specific data point dropped significantly in one year and then partially rebounded in the following year, it gave me 5 bullet point potential explanations that were reasonable first guesses for issues to look into, even though it knew nothing except the industry sector. The whole series of responses would make a very reasonable jumping off point for exploring the issue and more detailed underlying data. Then I did the same thing using GPT-4 and the results were significantly better, the explanations more insightful and nuanced. I'll definitely continue using it to dump some pre-digested aggregates into a prompt and let GPT spitball ideas as a first-pass to get me thinking about different aspects of the problems I work on.