Search venue sites for concerts to attend
The author had Operator look for classical concerts in Berlin; it returned a result after 15 minutes but struggled to navigate, and product research and Gmail receipt fetching failed.
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- What they did
- The author asked Operator, which runs ChatGPT in its own virtual machine with a browser, to check Berlin venue websites for classical concerts. Operator had to set dates and see which concerts were sold out. It worked on its own for 15 minutes. The author then re-prompted, asking for URLs.
- How it went
- The first answer came back after 15 minutes, but names and dates alone didn't let the author find the concerts. The URL retry took 33 minutes and returned three concerts that weren't what the author wanted. Date pickers gave Operator trouble.
- Worth knowing
- The VM isn't logged in to anything, and the author couldn't even paste passwords, so sign-in-dependent tasks like fetching Gmail receipts failed.
Try it yourself with Operator
Look at the websites of [venue 1], [venue 2] and [venue 3] in [city] and find [type of event, e.g. classical concerts] happening between [start date] and [end date]. List each with date, venue, ticket price and link, and tell me if a site blocked you. Stop at the list and do not buy tickets.
Source: antoine.fi · Undated
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