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The promise & peril of Code Interpreter

With great power comes great responsibility: data analysis is nuanced and complex. What happens when a tool makes it too easy?

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Dave Friedman
Jul 12, 2023
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OpenAI’s Code Interpreter plugin for GPT-4, widely available to ChatGPT+ subscribers as of this week, is probably the most important and powerful plugin for GPT-4. It allows anyone with a subscription to feed GPT-4 a natural language data query, and have GPT-4 write the relevant Python code and execute the query. Further, it can provide the user with a …

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