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Wolfram|Alpha has been integrated into ChatGPT. You have to be a ChatGPT Plus user and install the Wolfram plugin from within ChatGPT. With it, you can ask questions like "How far is it from Tokyo to Chicago?" or "What is the integral of x^2*cos(2x)" and, instead of trying to answer the question linguistically, ChatGPT will realize it needs to invoke Wolfram|Alpha and pass the question to Wolfram|Alpha for a computational answer.

The article shows some of the behind-the-scenes communication between ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha. ChatGPT doesn't just cut-and-paste in either direction. Rather, it turns your question or into a Wolfram|Alpha query, and then re-translates-back the answer into natural language. ChatGPT can incorporate graphs from Wolfram|Alpha into its presentation as well.

"ChatGPT isn't just using us to do a 'dead-end' operation like show the content of a webpage. Rather, we're acting much more like a true 'brain implant' for ChatGPT -- where it asks us things whenever it needs to, and we give responses that it can weave back into whatever it's doing."

"While 'pure ChatGPT' is restricted to things it 'learned during its training', by calling us it can get up-to-the-moment data."

This can be based on real-time data feeds ("How much warmer is it in Timbuktu than New York now?"), or it can be based on "science-style" predictive computations ("How far is it to Jupiter right now?").

ChatGPT gets its "Wolfram Superpowers"!

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