in Thursday’s announcement(opens in new tab), OpenAI told the world that ChatGPT will soon have “eyes and ears”. A plugin is about to be rolled out, which will greatly extend the functionality of ChatGPT.
OpenAI will soon have its own plugins and will have third party plugins as well. If this doesn’t sound exciting, here’s an example. ChatGPT is bad at math because its brain is just a language model. With the Calculator plugin, you don’t have to worry about math anymore. Existing plugins seem to allow ChatGPT to browse the internet or go shopping for information not in the model.
There will be an iTunes-like “plug-in store” where users can obtain (or purchase) third-party plug-ins. A fascinating demo video shows how the model itself detects the need to use one of the plugins, depending on the nature of the prompt, once the plugins are installed. In its announcement, OpenAI paints a picture of a world where to-do lists can be turned into prompts, and plugins can automate both decision-making and execution of many errands.
But no, this world is not here. You probably can’t try the ChatGPT plugin yet.
How to try the ChatGPT plugin now
The ChatGPT plugin is currently only available in the form of a “limited alpha” release for developers and insiders.There is a waiting page(opens in new tab) For those who want access but haven’t yet. ChatGPT Plus may help you if you subscribe to OpenAI’s paid service. That’s because OpenAI says it “prioritizes a small number of developers and ChatGPT Plus users.”
What is it like to use the ChatGPT plugin?
If you’re a machine learning engineer with access to a “restricted alpha”, let’s face it: you’re not reading this article. Any bystander with even the slightest interest in AI might want to know how the plugin works.
If that sounds like you and you have about 40 minutes of your time, you could do much worse than this explanation from YouTuber James Briggs. , but even if you don’t speak the language, the video is jargon-free and gives a fairly detailed overview of ChatGPT’s search plugin, which is already open source.(opens in new tab)and looks pretty easy to use.
If the content in this video is confusing, a specific chatbot may help.
