New plugins offer even more ways of using ChatGPT

Published on: Saturday, March 25, 2023

By: ETX Daily Up, FMT

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ChatGPT is being enhanced with plugins to provide more personalised and up-to-date responses. (Envato Elements pic)

PARIS: One of ChatGPT’s current limitations is its inability to access recent information, ie, information made available online since the end of 2021, unless entered directly by a user or directed to various sources.

To remedy this, OpenAI will gradually deploy various plugins integrated into ChatGPT to improve its performance and allow the AI chatbot to keep up with current events.

These plugins are designed to provide the language model with specific and up-to-date information by means of data that can be found on the web, but which was previously absent from its learning program. This will make its responses more relevant and personalised for users.

Thanks to these plugins, ChatGPT will be able to take into account the latest news, but also restaurant openings and closings, or current hotel rates.

These tools pave the way for new uses and new human-AI interactions directly through ChatGPT.

These could include booking a table at a restaurant or a flight, for example, or having groceries delivered after previously asking ChatGPT for a list of ingredients needed for a specific recipe.

Certain developers have been able to build these first plugins based on documentation provided by OpenAI.

The first partners are Expedia, FiscalNote, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, Milo, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Speak, Wolfram and Zapier. Note that OpenAI already hosts two significant plugins, a web browser and a code interpreter.

Initially, only a small number of developers and users of ChatGPT Plus (its paid version) will be able to test these plugins which, if they prove satisfactory, will then be deployed on a larger scale.

However, OpenAI also warns that they may increase security problems relating to private data and encourage misuse or fraud. This explains the very gradual, but highly promising, roll-out of these new plugins.