ChatGPT, an AI chatbot made by OpenAI, is changing how chatbots work by taking a new approach based on the App Store. This way of doing things gives developers and users many new options.
Conversational agents and AI have been getting much attention lately. OpenAI announced new third-party plugins for ChatGPT after GPT-4 was released. Some might see this as a small change, but it is a significant and promising change in the field.
CHATGPT’s Third-Party Plugin Store: Changing the way AI chatbots work
These plugins give you access to third-party tools, databases, and knowledge sources, like the web. They are available in alpha for ChatGPT users and developers on the waiting list. And OpenAI wants to give priority to a small group of ChatGPT Plus developers and subscribers before giving access to more people.
The plugin that lets you browse the web is the most interesting, which means that ChatGPT can get information from the web to answer different questions.
Without this plugin, ChatGPT can only know about things that happened before September 2021. But with this plugin, ChatGPT can now use the Bing Search API to get content from the web and show the websites it visited to come up with an answer, giving credit to its sources. This is much like what people can do on Microsoft’s Bing (based on GPT-4). But also on the Google Bard of the future.
A chatbot that can access the web poses some risks, but it also gives search engines a lot of control over the data that will be used to feed the language models connected to the web. Because of this, plugin developers likely have to follow a certain set of rules. They were putting certain limits and restrictions on them. Ensure that the plugins available on the ChatGPT platform are safe and good.
OpenAI encourages developers who want to make plugins for ChatGPT to look at its documentation and API. Partners like Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, OpenTable, and Zapier have already made plugins.
