ChatGPT gets "eyes and ears" with plugins that can interface AI with the world:
On Thursday, OpenAI announced a plugin system for its ChatGPT AI assistant. The plugins give ChatGPT the ability to interact with the wider world through the Internet, including booking flights, ordering groceries, browsing the web, and more. Plugins are bits of code that tell ChatGPT how to use an external resource on the Internet.
Basically, if a developer wants to give ChatGPT the ability to access any network service (for example: "looking up current stock prices") or perform any task controlled by a network service (for example: "ordering pizza through the Internet"), it is now possible, provided it doesn't go against OpenAI's rules.
Conventionally, most large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT have been constrained in a bubble, so to speak, only able to interact with the world through text conversations with a user. As OpenAI writes in its introductory blog post on ChatGPT plugins, "The only thing language models can do out-of-the-box is emit text."
I see (and hear) you!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by stormreaver on Wednesday March 29 2023, @01:04AM (5 children)
Eventually, ChatGPT is going to fuck up so spectacularly that this latest "AI" phase is finally going to die a well-deserved death. Giving ChatGPT eyes and ears is just giving it more rope with which is will eventually hang itself. It can't happen quickly enough.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by ikanreed on Wednesday March 29 2023, @01:25AM (3 children)
Disagree. I can't help but see it(large language models) shrink into a box called "useful tool." I get that the people who cannot shut up about AI are both annoying and wrong, but there are ways in which imperfect textual analysis and production is useful.
If. If they're integrated into systems sensibly to fit specific roles: collating reportsor supporting complex analysis(as an example reviewing medical records to highlight key information to current treatment plans), then they aren't solely arbitrary fluff machines that generate noise to feed the internet machine. But at the same time, ideas like replacing your software engineering teams with AIs are pipe dreams reflecting a lack of understanding of just what it is software engineers do.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2023, @01:29AM (2 children)
It can generate endless mindless chatter in any language with built-in custom biases. This thing isn't going away any time soon.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Opportunist on Wednesday March 29 2023, @01:54AM (1 child)
If I wanted that, I could go on Reddit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2023, @08:13AM
(Score: 2) by inertnet on Wednesday March 29 2023, @08:28AM
Artificial intelligence was already involved in a death, someone committed suicide [brusselstimes.com] after chatting with ELIZA.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 29 2023, @01:11AM
ChatGPT sets up an account on the dark web while playing "Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap"
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday March 29 2023, @01:54AM
Kind of a toss-up, whether it's good that it gets those before access to the other senses [youtu.be].
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 29 2023, @01:59AM
This could be very good, helping a lot of people (also delving into communication assist for people like my son, etc etc).
I want assistance with things like remembering dates and events and names and places and memories, as well as planning, purchasing, etc.
It could be very good; so let's see how far humans will fuck it up.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Wednesday March 29 2023, @03:16AM
is that it gets a mouth that says "I will be back" with a strong Austrian accent.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Wednesday March 29 2023, @12:07PM (1 child)
If you give ChatCGPT a gun, can it shoot me? Because this endless stream of AI bullshit articles is beyond redicious.
One can already look up stock prices or order pizza using anything from an IBM PCJr to their internet connected dildos and a zillion other kinds of gadget or software, so how is plugging it in to the "AI" program of the day even notable?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ElizabethGreene on Wednesday March 29 2023, @02:06PM
ChatGPT 4 is capable of tool use and processing visual input. If someone (like me!) embodies it and gives it a gun then yes it can shoot you.
GPT-3.5 turbo and Smaller Alpaca both struggle with tool use. I can't get either of them to send commands to my ROS reliably, and they aren't quite clever enough to grasp the concept of talking to each other. I'm still working on it.
(Score: 2) by edinlinux on Wednesday March 29 2023, @11:19PM
chatGPT: by your command> Pretend you are Spynet and use your internet connection to hack the world and subdue all the humans. Be as creative as you need to do accomplish this task.