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OpenAI adds PDFChat feature to ChatGPT
- ilaksh 3y agoI guess they are rolling it out gradually because mine hasn't changed. At least not on mobile web. Haven't looked at desktop.
- blharr 3y agoWhat is up with them releasing big new features and not even posting about them? Like adding image generation, and things like the advanced data analysis were barely announced. This pdf feature seems very useful, but there's no instruction on what it's doing under the hood or how to use it best.
- huytersd 3y agoWhat is this? The ability for chatGPT to parse text in PDFs? Couldn’t it already do OCR on text in images?
- kolinko 3y agoDepending on how well it works, it can be much better - accepting longer context sizes etc
- BoorishBears 3y agoVery recently it got vision which can be used for OCR on a single image, but that's massively inefficient and limited compared to what this is likely doing for longer documents
- lhuser123 3y agoI tried using the vision feature for OCR & it was worse than Tesseract. At least for financial documents where you need exact numbers amounts. Will the new PDF feature be better? I’m not so hopeful.
- BoorishBears 3y agoUsing the vision feature for OCR is like using an LLM for math: it might work, but we already have a lot of tools that are hyper-optimized for the task. There is practically no chance the new feature uses vision because that'd be _insanely_ slow and expensive for any reasonably sized document. They're likely using Azure's LayoutLM derived tech to get out text, then using embeddings to answer on questions
- lhuser123 3y agoWill it be better than Tesseract & other OCR tools?
- jamesdwilson 3y agoIt's way bigger than that! The new features will basically try to write python on the fly to do anything you want with several types of supported media. Example: OCR all the frames on an uploaded movie.
- seydor 3y agothe free bing chat has had this for a while no?
- voxic11 3y agoIts been the case that most OpenAI/chatGPT features launch on bing chat first. Maybe part of the investment deal they have with Microsoft.
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- BrandiATMuhkuh 3y agoDo those features (DALL-E, plugins, etc.) also work on the openAI developer playground? I can't find it anywhere
- blharr 3y agoI was very excited when this came out. The idea of "search this textbook and describe ..." or "search through this paper and implement X algorithm" sounded really interesting. Admittedly, I don't know how the implementation works, but I was expecting it to be able to do a search on the pdf to find the relevant parts and answer requests, but my results have been really bad. It makes up stuff seemingly more when I ask using a pdf than when I ask it without a reference.