New ChatGPT plugins to provide real-time statistics

With the March release of the new GPT-4 engine and Whisper API, OpenAI announced Thursday that it has begun providing ChatGPT plugins. These will let the chatbot to connect with third-party APIs, adapting its replies to specific scenarios set by the developers and broadening the bot’s range of actionable activities.

 

 

Assume you wish to create a chatbot with whom users can discuss sports. Prior to the current GPT-4 upgrade, the chatbot could only discuss games and scores from the past, namely from 2021, when GPT-3’s training data was compiled. It wouldn’t be able to get real-time data or even be aware that 2022 existed. With a chatGPT plugin, you can add ChatGPT functionality to your existing code stack, allowing it to do everything from retrieving real-time information calls (sports scores, stock prices, breaking news) to pulling specific knowledge-base information from your company’s internal documents or your personal cloud. It will even be able to do actions on the user’s behalf, such as booking a flight or ordering take-out — think of it as an installable Google Assistant created by the OpenAI team.

According to the business, employing plug-ins to bridge the knowledge gap between what the model was trained on and what has transpired afterwards should help lessen the AI’s inclination to hallucinate facts when answering complicated queries. “These references not only improve the model’s utility, but also allow users to assess the trustworthiness of the model’s output and double-check its correctness, possibly lowering hazards associated with over-reliance,” the researchers stated.