Joshua Browder, the CEO of robot lawyer startup DoNotPay has revealed that he handed over his entire financial life to OpenAI's GPT-4 in an attempt to save money. He claimed that he was able to save $217.85 (Rs 17,850) by automating tasks to AutoGPT that otherwise would've cost him precious time. In a Twitter thread, he shared his experience, claiming that the chatbot has helped him in many ways to recover lost or unclaimed money.
''I decided to outsource my entire personal financial life to GPT-4 (via the the@donotpay chat we are building). I gave AutoGPT access to my bank, financial statements, credit report, and email. Here's how it's going so far (+$217.85) and the strange ways it's saving money,'' he wrote in the thread.
I decided to outsource my entire personal financial life to GPT-4 (via the @donotpay chat we are building).
— Joshua Browder (@jbrowder1) April 29, 2023
I gave AutoGPT access to my bank, financial statements, credit report, and email.
Here's how it's going so far (+$217.85) and the strange ways it's saving money. (1/n): pic.twitter.com/JO9p1A5ipc
After AutoGPT was given access to his bank account and financial statements, the bot scanned more than 10,000 transactions. It found that $80.86 was leaving his account every month in useless subscriptions and offered to cancel every single one.
The bot further used USPS Lob API to cancel the gym subscriptions after having an automated chat with agents.
The bots got to work mailing letters in the case of gyms (using the USPS Lob API), chatting automatically with agents and even clicking online buttons to get them cancelled.
— Joshua Browder (@jbrowder1) April 29, 2023
Example of how it works below.
Now that the easy savings were out the way, I wanted it to go deeper. https://t.co/KnIcGww8qF
The bot also helped him get easy refunds. The bot pointed out a United Airlines in-flight Wi-Fi receipt for $36.99 from London to New York in Browder's email and enquired if it functioned correctly or not. When he said ''no,'' it immediately drafted a persuasive and firm legal letter to United, requesting a refund.
When I said: “no,” it immediately drafted a persuasive and firm legal letter to United, requesting a refund. The letter was both legalistic (citing FTC statutes) and convincing.
— Joshua Browder (@jbrowder1) April 29, 2023
A bot then sent it to them via their website.
Within 48 hours, United agreed to refund (+$36.99). pic.twitter.com/bI1nBLgt0k
He then moved on to his bills and as a customer of Comcast, he asked the bot to negotiate the bills. “Now it was time to unleash GPT-4 on my bills. I am a customer of Comcast and so I asked it to negotiate my bill. When Comcast offered a $50 discount, the bot pushed back. It said: “NO. I want more.” And it got it (+$100). GPT 3.5 never pushed back fwiw,” he tweeted.
In under 24 hours, Mr Browder was able to get $217.86, and he has a dozen other disputes pending. His goal is to have AutoGPT make him $10,000.
I am already up $217.86 in under 24 hours and have a dozen other disputes pending. My goal is to have GPT-4 make me $10,000.
— Joshua Browder (@jbrowder1) April 29, 2023
We are building DoNotPay Chat to be available as a ChatGPT Plugin, on our website and even via iMessage.
Consumer rights is the perfect job for A.I! https://t.co/TPVXjppTNa
Internet users were left surprised to see his tweets. One user wrote, ''This is insane. The world is about to become unrecognizable.'' Another commented, ''People don't realize how quickly their life will change as this becomes more seamless.''
However, a third expressed concern and wrote, ''I seriously doubt this works in a robust way. GPT hallucinations compound in unpredictable ways. Especially with math for instance. How truly real world ready is this thing? From my experience not at all.'' A fourth added, ''Yeah I'm not giving all my info to some data collection tool. I can do all these things in less time than it would take to connect all my accounts.''
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