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ChatGPT Gets “Eyes and Ears” With Plugins That Can Interface AI With the World

posted by mrpg on Wednesday March 29, @12:41AM   Printer-friendly

upstart writes:

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!

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by ikanreed on Wednesday March 29, @01:25AM (3 children)

    by ikanreed (3164) on Wednesday March 29, @01:25AM (#1298580) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29, @01:29AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29, @01:29AM (#1298581)

    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, @01:54AM (1 child)

      by Opportunist (5545) on Wednesday March 29, @01:54AM (#1298582)

      If I wanted that, I could go on Reddit.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29, @08:13AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29, @08:13AM (#1298604)
        In SN there seem to also be a few chatbots, albeit low grade ones.