I have been saving an enormous amount of time by using ChatGPT to write Python code to access the API. For example, I wanted to look again at my older records to see whether on the basis of my more recent observations and using the updated AI tool I could agree or disagree with IDs suggested by Iden…

[image] cf125: “I want to list in an HTML table all Inaturalist observations of any taxon where the grade is Needs_id, the Community rank is at least genus, where the observer is [me_id], there is an identifier who is not [me_id], and [me_id] has not agreed with the community taxon id. I want th…

OK, I made a small mistake in the Prompt which I used initially. My Prompt was actually this: “I want to list in html all observations of any taxon where the grade is needs_id, the rank is genus or higher but not as high as species, where the observer is [me_id], there is an identifier who is not […

That came out a bit garbled. How should I put nicely formatted code in a box here?

[image] cf125: ChatGPT can be used for text queries that would not be possible using an ordinary search engine. For example: “What species of very small white mushroom on a stalk could be growing on the trunk of a living deciduous tree in moss in London UK in December?” “Display in two columns…

(added “iNaturalist’s” to the title)

Here is the code which I did not display correctly, with the error corrected: import requests import json # iNaturalist API endpoint API_URL = "https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations" # Parameters for the API query params = { "user_id": "[me_id]", # Filter observations by the observer …

ChatGPT certainly makes mistakes on species identification or species description, but it does sometimes point me towards an answer which I can verify as being correct which I failed to find by other means, and it often saves me time.

[image] cf125: I would be a disbeliever like you if I had not actually been successfully doing this for several months. It is a huge time-saver. the code you got still looks wrong to me. the filter_observations function doesn’t look to me like it’s doing something a human would actually do. y…

Well I am getting what I was aiming to get (and I agree that I did not define what I was aiming to get as precisely as I should have done). I cut and paste the output into Excel and have been using the output for a couple of days now. I do agree with you that there is some odd-looking code in filte…

[image] cf125: I do agree with you that there is some odd-looking code in filter_observations which I would not have written i’m not saying that the code is written in a non-human style. i’m saying that what the code is doing is not what you’re actually asking for. maybe it’s close to what yo…

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