OpenAI has announced support for plugins in its ChatGPT conversational artificial intelligence. He initially launches it with a group of 13 plugins that extend the capabilities of the chatbot allowing you to interact with a number of web pages and services. For example, with the plugin travel reservation service Expedia, a user will not only be able to collect information about a destination but also book a hotel room. Or with Instacart, a food shopping and delivery service, let ChatGPT recommend a recipe and load the ingredients into the store’s shopping cart so you only have to pay outside of ChatGPT. This way, ChatGPT becomes an interface from which to access and use other services and websites on the Internet.
We are starting our rollout of ChatGPT plugins.
you can install plugins to help with a wide variety of tasks. we are excited to see what developers create! https://t.co/NQ684Yp2LK pic.twitter.com/m7b6vJrj5D
—Sam Altman (@sama) March 23, 2023
are initially available 11 plug-ins to external services and 2 developed by OpenAI which users can access ChatGPT Plus Sign up for this waiting list, which is the same for developers who want to create their own for ChatGPT.
In addition to Expedia and Instacart, ChatGPT has plugins from kayaking, Kiarna Shopping, ProsecutorNote, Milo Family AI, Open Table, shop, Speak, wolfram and Zapier that allow the integration of their respective services with the platform.
We’ve added initial support for ChatGPT plugins — a protocol for developers to build tools for ChatGPT, with safety as a core design principle. Deploying iteratively (starting with a small number of users & developers) to learn from contact with reality: https://t.co/ySek2oevod pic.twitter.com/S61MTpddOV
—Greg Brockman (@gdb) March 23, 2023
ChatGPT is now connected to the Internet and can use current information
Until now, ChatGPT has been limited in its responses to the data set it has been trained on by OpenAI. These reach up to 2021hence the AI does not respond to issues that occurred latera limitation that Bing Chat does not have, which, like ChatGPT, uses the language model GPT-4. one of the new plugins developed by OpenAI addresses this shortcoming by allowing you to connect to the Internet and collect current information to respond to the user.
So, when asked a question like the box office results of this year’s Oscar-winning movies, ChatGPT goes through the internet searching process and in a more transparent way than what happens in Bing Chat. The app scrolls through the articles you are reading to gather the information and provides the links before displaying the answer to the question.
The second plugin own is a code interpreter with which a user can, for example, upload a video file to ChatGPT and ask it to extract the first 5 seconds. ChatGPT performs the task by showing the code it is executing at all times and making the new video generated available to the user for download.
Plugins for processing a video clip, no ffmpeg wizardry required. Actual use-case from today’s launch. pic.twitter.com/Q3r2Z8fRS5
—Greg Brockman (@gdb) March 23, 2023
OpenAi ensures that it is aware of the risks involved in opening ChatGPT to the use of plug-ins, so they have “implemented numerous safeguards” and their availability will, for the time being, be limited.
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