ChatGPT Plugins: the model starts using external tools
In one sentence OpenAI introduces plugins for ChatGPT in limited access: two in-house plugins (web browsing and code interpreter), an open source retrieval plugin, and the first third-party plugins such as Expedia, Instacart, KAYAK, Wolfram and Zapier.
ChatGPT stops being 'just' a model that talks. With plugins it can search the web, run Python code and connect to external services for travel, groceries, bookings and calculations.
At first access is limited to a small group of users and developers, with a waitlist. But the direction is clear: the model becomes an orchestrator of actions, not just a text generator.
A year later plugins are shut down and replaced by GPTs, but the pattern of the model calling external tools stays.
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OpenAI
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ChatGPT, ChatGPT Plugins
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