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5th October 2022 - Link Blog

Getting tabular data from unstructured text with GPT-3: an ongoing experiment (via) Roberto Rocha shows how to use a carefully designed prompt (with plenty of examples) to get GPT-3 to convert unstructured textual data into a structured table.

Posted 5th October 2022 at 3:03 am

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