ChatGPT agent Makes Spreadsheets

It may be a while for the whole world to evolve to a AI agent centric worldview and so I think we should do what we can to meet the world where it's at.

My name is John. I work on the deep research and agents teams at open. One great use case that comes up a lot is you have some kind of budget file and whenever you do that it's kind of a pain. that takes maybe 4 to 8 hours and that's kind of your day. I'm going to show you an example where the agent sources information on the city of San Francisco's annual budget expenses and revenues for the past 5 years and it's going to compile that all into one nicely formatted spreadsheet. It goes on

by itself. I usually just close my laptop, go grab a coffee, maybe I have lunch. So, first it needs to find the data. So, it probably does a web search to figure out where it can find this San Francisco city budget information. Once it finds the San Francisco city government website, it will try to access the PDF files. So, it has its own file system and everything. Then, it needs to extract maybe 200 numbers from each PDF and finally it will have one command that will generate the entire spreadsheet all at once. If you go back to the chat, you'll see the final response. And let me just open it now. Yeah, I think it got 98% of the information correct. It also formatted the Excel workbook as I instructed it to. In this case, the revisions were small, so I just made them within Excel cuz it was just a copy paste. But absolutely, you can make them in chat GPT. I would say just try it out. If it can do 90 95% of the actual time consuming part of the work, uh that's going to save you a ton of time.