ChatGPT has already impressed users with its conversational skills, but its latest feature introduces a range of new capabilities for the chatbot.
Simply put, the new “code interpreter” tool allows ChatGPT to perform a bunch of image- and video-editing tasks, and data analysis. But that just scratches the surface of what the bot can now accomplish, with creative users already declaring the update as a game changer and the most powerful version of the chatbot.
For now, code interpreter is only available to those subscribed to ChatGPT Plus, which costs around £15 per month in the UK, and offers access to the more advanced GPT-4 model.
Here’s what you need to know about the new feature.
What is code interpreter?
Released last week by ChatGPT creator OpenAI, code interpreter sounds like it’s meant for coding, but it actually allows the chatbot to complete a variety of new tasks.
ChatGPT can now edit videos using simple prompts, turn images into videos, extract text from an image, convert files, summarise PDFs, analyse data, and generate QR codes.
All of this is made possible, in part, because the bot now allows you to upload and download files, which could not be done before.
How to use code ChatGPT interpreter
As mentioned above, code interpreter is included with a ChatGPT Plus subscription. However, the feature isn’t turned on by default, meaning you have to manually enable it. You can do so by heading to your settings, clicking on beta features, and toggling on code interpreter.
How ChatGPT users are using coding interpreter
ChatGPT became an overnight sensation in part because users began circulating its weird and wonderful responses on social media. Naturally, the same goes for the things it can create with code interpreter.
Here are some of the most interesting examples:
ChatGPT turns a spreadsheet into a GIF of US lighthouse locations
This was kind of delightful: I uploaded a CSV file of every lighthouse location in the US.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) May 2, 2023
"ChatGPT Code Interpreter: Create a gif of a map of the lighthouse locations, where the map is very dark but each lighthouse twinkles." A couple seconds later... pic.twitter.com/f14JLWQCyB
ChatGPT adds slow zooms to a video
Basic video editing in ChatGPT, converting uploaded GIF to longer MP4 with slow zoom: pic.twitter.com/fmCPUBkedD
— Riley Goodside (@goodside) April 30, 2023
ChatGPT pans across an image to make it look like a video
Breaking: Now you can turn images into video with ChatGPT
— Chase Lean (@chaseleantj) July 8, 2023
How to do it?
Use the new feature called Code Interpreter.
See the steps below 👇 pic.twitter.com/r0vWYc2lrr
ChatGPT creates a QR code for the OpenAI website
Code Interpreter will be available to all ChatGPT Plus users over the next week.
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) July 6, 2023
It lets ChatGPT run code, optionally with access to files you've uploaded. You can ask ChatGPT to analyze data, create charts, edit files, perform math, etc.
Plus users can opt in via settings. pic.twitter.com/IjH5JBqe5B
ChatGPT analyses Apple’s stock option
1/3@OpenAI’s code interpreter is out today for Plus subscribers
— Adam Taha (@adamtaha_) July 8, 2023
It’s great to analyze spreadsheets, images, charts, and more
Here’s an example where I used it to analyze AAPL’s options expiring July 21st 👇
ChatGPT can turn public data into graphs
6. Graph public data without input
— Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy (@aakashg0) July 7, 2023
It can fetch data from public databases like the IMF and visualize it for you without any work.
This used to be a process of finding data, loading into your software, then formatting the chart. All is now done for you.
Source: @AiBreakfast pic.twitter.com/pfIoevRq89
ChatGPT analyses 300 hours of Spotify playlists to summarise your taste in music
analyzing a 300hr Spotify favorites playlist with ChatGPT Code Interpreter
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i used to use a Jupyter notebook some guy made for PCA analysis but it broke
GPT showed me how to export from the Spotify API, ran multidimensional PCA and t-SNE analyses, and summarized my taste for me pic.twitter.com/cVmUvuuRdM
