As a refinement, I allow the user to direct a query directly to either AI, by prefacing their input with 'Wolfram' or 'GPT' (or any of several synonyms). So in the end, I just pass every query first to Wolfram|Alpha, and if it can't deal with it, it returns an error code, and I then hand it to ChatGPT. But I couldn't get it to work no matter what I try, it always replies 'invalid appid' (using the same App ID that works just fine with other endpoints). My first thought was to use Wolfram|Alpha's Fast Query Recognizer API, which sounds like it's intended for exactly this purpose.

So my basic idea was: let's make a chat room with both of these powerful AIs on hand, and let either one jump in as they can? So I decided to try this for myself! Free API keys are available for both GPT-3.5 and Wolfram|Alpha, making them accessible in environments like Mini Micro using http.get and http.post. In it, the author (Stephen Wolfram?) argues that ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha complement each other - the latter being particularly good at numerical, mathematical, and computational tasks where ChatGPT is weak. Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT. An interesting essay appeared on Wolfram|Alpha's blog today:

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