OpenAI Introduces Plugin Support For ChatGPT

OpenAI has announced the addition of ChatGPT plugin support.

The goal of this improvement is to make the language model more useful by giving it the ability to access current information, do calculations, and use third-party services.

OpenAI plans to slowly release plugins and study their use, impact, and possible problems in the real world.

Increasing ChatGPT's Functionality

Users and developers have been looking forward to plugins because they allow ChatGPT to be used in many different ways.

Language models have limitations because they rely solely on training data for information.

Plugins can act as "eyes and ears," giving models access to more recent, personal, or specific data.

Plugins also allow the AI to perform safe, limited actions on behalf of users.

There are two plugins. OpenAI hosts a web browser as well as a code interpreter.

OpenAI is also releasing the source code for a knowledge base retrieval plugin, allowing developers to supplement ChatGPT with their own data.

Plugins for browsing and code interpretation

Thanks to OpenAI's browsing plugin, ChatGPT can now get information from the internet, which adds to its knowledge base beyond the training data.

As a result, the AI chatbot can provide more current and accurate information.

Thanks to OpenAI's code interpreter plugin, ChatGPT can use Python and handle uploads and downloads in a sandboxed environment.

Based on early user studies, the code interpreter can help with math problems, data analysis, data visualization, and changing file formats.

Plugin for retrieval

Using OpenAI's open-source retrieval plugin, ChatGPT can get to personal or organizational information sources like files, notes, emails, or public documentation, such as files, notes, emails, or public documentation.

Developers can make their own version and sign it up with ChatGPT as a self-hosted solution. It indexes and searches documents using OpenAI embeddings and various vector databases.

Plugins from third parties

Plugin support connects ChatGPT to third-party apps, allowing it to interact with developer-defined APIs.

This improves ChatGPT's capabilities, allowing it to perform a variety of tasks.

ChatGPT can do the following with plugins:

• Get real-time information such as sports scores, stock market updates, or the most recent headlines.
• Access data from a knowledge base, such as company documents or personal notes.
• Perform actions for users, such as booking flights or placing food orders.

Some of the first companies to make plugins are Expedia, FiscalNote, Instacart, KAYAK, Klarna, Milo, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Speak, Wolfram, and Zapier.

Availability

Users and developers on a waiting list will be granted alpha access to plugins.

Access will start out being limited to a small group of developers and ChatGPT Plus users, but it will be slowly opened up to more people.

In short

OpenAI's decision to add support for ChatGPT plugins is a big step toward making language models better.

The plugins for browsing, code interpreter, and retrieval are just the beginning.

As more plugins are made and integrated, the ChatGPT ecosystem will become more useful and open up new opportunities for both users and developers.?