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Hmm ... I wish with all these new agents my regular tasks become a bit easier, but so far it didn't work, it 'ran out of loops in the free plan'. Not going to pay without even executing one successful example (I know this one is a pretty tough problem, but I was willing to give some easier 'research' tasks too). My query was :

"Find out the cheapest per unit Pampers New Born diapers from the ones available on amazon.in, flipkart.com, bigbasket.com, dmart.in, firstcry.com considering all the available card discounts, coupon codes, shipping and other charges etc. "

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If you are a ChatGPT+ subscriber I think you can clone the repository and run the app for free locally with your own OpenAI API key.

I'm not yet, because I haven't got confidence in ChatGPT's answers or abilities so far (e.g. the fact that it 'lies' with a straight face when it doesn't know the answer is especially troubling for me). I hope ChatGPT 5 or 6 are much better in this regard, and I will very gladly pay for it then.

>e.g. the fact that it 'lies' with a straight face when it doesn't know the answer

I see it's already ready to replace the sales team.

Customer: "Can your product compute infinite loops in finite time?"

SalesGPT: "Hell yes, our developers can do anything, would you like another vodka martini?"

API access is not coupled with being a ChatGPT+ subscriber, and I believe GPT-4 API access is also not included in that. That means you can use GPT-3.5-turbo via API right now, and GPT-4 through API is available via waitlist.

why is that type of query even an LLM task?

Either you do it yourself, or your task someone else with that research task. The promise of autonomous agents is that they do the grunt work for you, but even though I'm really excited about the concept, it doesn't work all that well yet.

Automation

I understand it could have just been a 'regular' automated task and not necessarily an LLM task (at least if tried hard enough). But isn't the general promise of these LLMs that we don't have to program a separate automated task for everything? And my query is precisely the kind of research I want the LLMs to carry out for me online. An educated assistant (natural intelligence) will do this task for me pretty easily, and I just want AI to do the same, perhaps much faster and cheaper. Until they can do that they're not impressive enough. :)

I'm certain self hosting will be required for these sorts of machines to make sense.

It's also easier to do these days than you'd think. Let me know if you want help setting it up.

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