For example, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has the ability to output files in DOCX (Microsoft Word), PDF (Portable Document Format), XLSX (Microsoft Excel), CSV (Comma-Separated Values), PPTX (Microsoft PowerPoint), and others.
But, when I ask a Pickaxe AI tool to output in a specific format, it tells me it cannot produce files. E.g.,
Pickaxe does not ever limit any “model” capabilities.
No LLM can “generate word documents” as part of its functioning. However, companies like OpenAI build in extra functionality, to do cool things like generating word docs.
On Pickaxe, you can do the same thing. Simply go to the act tab, and pick the functionality you’d like. I know we already have a generate PDF action, as well as a word doc generator…
Yes this is a common question. ChatGPT is actually a web-app that OpenAI has built on top of their AI models. A lot of the functionality is not actually AI functionality. For example, when you upload a PDF they use a PDF extraction to pull the text and then dump that into ChatGPT (same as Pickaxe). And many of the other functionalities are basically other pieces of software connected to their language models (basically they’re “actions”).
So ChatGPT is basically a General-Purpose Super Pickaxe that OpenAI built itself. Same thing Claude.ai
