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🤖 AI insight of the week - ChatGPT plugins are here to become essential in your life

It’s the announcement of the week in AI.

OpenAI has released a new feature for its flagship product, ChatGPT, to enable plugins.

But why should you immediately drop what you’re doing and pay close attention to what I’m about to tell you?

Simple, because it will solve most of ChatGPT’s shortcomings while becoming the new ‘App store’, the golden opportunity of this decade.

Pathological liars

ChatGPT and other LLMs suffer what’s described as ‘hallucination’ or ‘making stuff up’, as they aren’t capable of differentiating or understanding the concepts of truthfulness or falsehood.

Therefore, LLMs are quite unreliable in situations they haven’t seen in training.

Pathological liar. Source: Author with Diffusion model

In layman’s terms, as they predict their output based on past knowledge data, this obviously means that there’s a cutoff at some point in time.

For instance, GPT-4 is updated only up to 2021, so everything occurring afterward is not ‘known’.

Consequently, as we can’t continuously update our training data for the model for its obvious costs, what can we do to close this gap?

Well, here come ChatGPT plugins.

A new type of consumer-end product we’ve never seen

In a nutshell, ChatGPT will be capable of using plugins to enhance its answers and the overall experience of the user.

But what are plugins?

Plugins are pieces of software that allow ChatGPT to seamlessly leverage other pieces of software, doing things like:

Retrieving real-time information; e.g., sports scores, stock prices, the latest news, etc.

Retrieving knowledge-base information; e.g., company docs, personal notes, etc.

Performing actions on behalf of the user; e.g., booking a flight, ordering food, etc

Using OpenAI’s own analogy, they pretend to be ChatGPT’s “eyes and ears”.

Excitingly, to illustrate the new features, OpenAI is releasing a series of proprietary and third-party plugins.

Browsing, knowledge, & grocery shopping

From their side, they are releasing the following:

Browsing plugin: This plugin allows ChatGPT to access and read information from the internet, expanding its knowledge base with up-to-date information. A new threat on Google?

Code interpreter plugin: This is software that transforms human-readable Python instructions into machine-readable ones to execute them. You can think of this as a mini-computer embedded into the conversation, capable of executing complex functions and data analysis, or basically anything that can be represented with Python.

Open-source retrieval plugin: This self-hosted solution allows users and companies to build a personalized repository of their data.

Besides these, companies like Instacart or Expedia are soon releasing their plugins too, allowing you to buy your groceries or your plane tickets to your next vacation using ChatGPT.

You can immediately think about the possibilities, but you can also watch these videos.

Hopefully, we will soon see a flourishing ecosystem…

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