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I'm more skeptical than most people here.

Except for certain clearly defined math problems (even math problems often aren't like that), WolframAlpha has turned out to be surprisingly useless for me in the last years. All these examples Wolfram mentions in his blog were possible via the WolframAlpha website/app before. Granted, now you don't have to worry about getting your WA query exactly right (a major problem in the past), since the GPT will handle this for you. But most of these examples seem still of little value to the vast majority of people.

Distance between Chicago and Tokyo? Planetary Moons larger than Mercury? Those examples are typical for WolframAlpha in that they are of very little interest.

I predict that in a few weeks most people here will have mostly forgotten about the Wolfram plugin, as it will turn out to be rarely useful. The plugins by OpenAI themselves (web access, compiler) are much more promising.




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