Hi Mark,

One question out of academic curiosity: I'm exploring ways to use these tools for research projects in econ and am struggling to see a good angle.

For instance, suppose I have lots of PDF reports on how firms have evolved on each quarter (10,000 reports or any other number beyond what I can read).

Can LLMs be used to spit out variables based on these reports? EG: indicator variables (optimistic-vs-pesimistic), categories, etc. that I can then use as data to test economic models?

I tried simple cases with ChatGPT3.5 and got the feeling it's great for outputting narrative text, but felt mediocre for when the output was more narrowly defined into categories (which was surprising).