[HN Gopher] Improvements to Data Analysis in ChatGPT
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       Improvements to Data Analysis in ChatGPT
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 63 points
       Date   : 2024-05-16 22:06 UTC (53 minutes ago)
        
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       | chipgap98 wrote:
       | It will be interesting to see if ChatGPT can drive meaningful
       | differentiation through features like this. Why would a business
       | use this solution as opposed to native solutions from Microsoft
       | and Google?
        
       | jnnnthnn wrote:
       | > Instead of downloading files to your desktop and then uploading
       | them to ChatGPT, you can now add various file types directly from
       | your Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive. This allows ChatGPT to
       | understand your Google Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Microsoft Excel,
       | Word, and PowerPoint files more quickly.
       | 
       | As far as I know, this is the first integration of other cloud
       | products in ChatGPT that's done as a 1st party integration (vs.
       | "GPTs", which are all 3rd party)?
        
         | lelandfe wrote:
         | Depends on what "cloud products" means, I suppose, but Browse
         | with Bing?
        
           | jnnnthnn wrote:
           | True! I had "things that store my data in the cloud" in mind.
        
       | sebastiansm wrote:
       | What alternatives exist to the analysis feature of chatgpt?
        
         | jnnnthnn wrote:
         | https://julius.ai is great
        
         | cstanley wrote:
         | https://patterns.app/, but is more for databases
        
       | Jimmc414 wrote:
       | Looks like it will be nice when they work some of the kinks out.
       | I'm now getting an internal error with the environment
       | 'AceInternalException' when trying to display data in a pandas
       | dataframe to the console. I looked around for about 5 minutes for
       | a link or route to properly report the reproduction steps as a
       | bug but didn't find anything and gave up.
        
       | nbzso wrote:
       | I will ask again: The corporate data in the cloud? Sells,
       | relationships, confidential information. I am crazy, or the world
       | is getting ridiculous? First killing copyright. Now what?
       | Privacy? Security?
        
         | jonas21 wrote:
         | Huh? Almost everyone stores this data in the cloud and has for
         | like the last 20 years.
        
           | nbzso wrote:
           | So I am the only one stupid enough to have a private cloud?
           | And the biggest and most successful corporations have trusted
           | their intellectual property to Microsoft and Google? Boy, I
           | am living under the rock. It is time to break all the walls.
           | Right?
        
             | throwaway98797 wrote:
             | if it's not hard for you why change?
             | 
             | if it is, maybe time to reconsider.
        
         | wddkcs wrote:
         | Privacy has always been dead. Idk why people love it's corpse
         | so much.
        
         | VWWHFSfQ wrote:
         | Microsoft already has everyone's corporate data. Always has.
        
       | moralestapia wrote:
       | "OpenAI doesn't have a moat", yet every time they announce
       | something it goes on to trend worldwide.
       | 
       | I'm not even a fan of them, dislike the hypocrisy behind the
       | name, and still, ChatGPT has replaced Google for 90% of my
       | queries. It's starting to feel like a burden to have to open
       | Google when ChatGPT doesn't give me what I want for some reason.
       | As soon as they're able to "ground" results, 99% of my queries
       | will go there.
       | 
       | Anyone that doesn't understand this is just coping hard with this
       | new reality.
        
         | Bjartr wrote:
         | That they are delivering useful capability is orthagonal to
         | whether or not they have a moat. They have first-mover
         | advantage, no doubt, but there's very little stopping others
         | from catching up.
        
       | iamsanteri wrote:
       | Isn't this literally what all sorts of analysts do as their core
       | jobs? Are they getting automated away?
        
         | andy99 wrote:
         | No. People that boil a job down to a simple cognitive task
         | rarely understand what the actual work of the job is.
        
       | autokad wrote:
       | you don't need this though, you can just ask chat gpt to give you
       | python code for running general data analysis
        
         | VWWHFSfQ wrote:
         | sure, but I'm super lazy. I just want the chart or table or
         | whatever so I can paste it in an email and then go home.
        
         | 7thpower wrote:
         | Not everyone knows how to python or wants to deal with the
         | frustration of learning it. This is a big deal for a lot of
         | people, especially corporate workers who don't have access
         | rights to run code in the first place.
        
       | phillipcarter wrote:
       | I've believed for quite a while that data analysis is a much
       | better use of this kind of AI than coding assistants is. Really
       | happy to see OpenAI investing in this space. There's likely loads
       | and loads more improvements to make.
        
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