I’ve been experimenting with tracking the value of my collection using AI. I tried using ChatGPT and managed to input an Excel list of my items, but the values it provides are often inaccurate or outdated since ChatGPT doesn’t have direct access to live websites. Even when I specify to pull prices from eBay, 130point, or Fanatics, or ask it to give me values from recent months, it still doesn’t get the numbers right.
Has anyone else had experience with this or found a solution? Any ideas on what I could try?
I do not think a LLM is a good approach to help you here. They are not good with staying up-to-date and they are not good at understanding numbers and mathematics. So asking it to keep up-to-date averages is like asking Superman to hold a bucket of kryptonite.
At best, ChatGPT can probably be helpful at writing scripts that will help you extract information from websites
Oh the script writing is a good Idea. Do you have an idea what good prompt would be? I never worked with scripts before.
My original idea was not to have an LLM that automatically keeps up to date but rather ask it every once in a while to gather the current value of the items.
I know nothing about coding…and tried to accomplish something that you’re looking to do.
TCGPlayer doesnt give out their API anymore…however, I found from my research this endpoint that I believe you can make your own excel “Scraper”. It is manual setup…but its possible. Here is the end point that should help you get started.
LLMs, are essentially built on / trained on a digest of information that aggregates and compounds over time with diminishing returns as time goes on. Gen AI can change it’s own methods, disregard arbitrarily, yata… math… yata… Because of this, the AI we have now (non Gen AI) has a hard time adjusting to current information without also factoring in old information. I bet it would be good at giving you a growth over time value, but current values change too quickly, ironically, for our AIs to keep up. What you might do though, is break the problem down. AI is great at solving small problems we’ve already solved.
Try using it to produce a smaller dataset, maybe prices at a certain time? no. you tried that… hmm. Something to think about. Maybe use AI to automagically do what @hero above said you could do.
Also, I’m fairly certain that some versions of chatbots or different service tiers (I’m not sure which) have access to live information, while others do not.
