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by EForEndeavour 942 days ago
This may just be due to you only having had a week to learn the quirks of ChatGPT 4. Despite the natural language interface, there are still a bunch of nuances and efficiencies in effective prompting (i.e., getting it to do what you actually want). For example, instead of directly asking it to classify every row in a text file, you might be limited to asking it to inspect the first few rows (or a random sample) of data, then write Python code that would fit and evaluate a classification model.

If you're willing to share your prompt or conversation as a direct link, someone here might be able to jump in with tips.