16th March 2023
I expect GPT-4 will have a LOT of applications in web scraping
The increased 32,000 token limit will be large enough to send it the full DOM of most pages, serialized to HTML - then ask questions to extract data
Or... take a screenshot and use the GPT4 image input mode to ask questions about the visually rendered page instead!
Might need to dust off all of those old semantic web dreams, because the world's information is rapidly becoming fully machine readable
— Me
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