New ChatGPT plugins will provide real-time statistics

Finally, references newer than 2021.

Following the release of the new GPT-4 engine and Whisper API in March, OpenAI announced on Thursday that it has started introducing plugins for ChatGPT. These will allow the chatbot to interact with third-party APIs, tailoring its responses to the specific circumstances set by the developers while expanding the range of actions the bot is capable of.

Let's say you want to develop a chatbot with which users can talk about sports. Before the latest GPT-4 update, the chatbot could only discuss games and scores that happened in the past, especially in 2021 when GPT-3 training data was gathered . It wouldn't pull real-time data or even be aware that the year 2022 existed. With a chatGPT plugin, you will be able to integrate ChatGPT functionality into your existing code stack where it can do everything from fetching real-time news calls (sports scores, stock quotes, breaking news) to extracting a specific knowledge base of information such as your company's internal documents or your personal cloud. They can even take action on the user's behalf, such as booking a flight or ordering takeout. Think of an installable Google Assistant created by the folks at OpenAI.

"The AI ​​model acts as an intelligent API caller. Given an API specification and a natural language description of when to use the API, the model calls proactive the API to perform actions," the OpenAI team wrote. "For example, if a user asks: 'Where should I stay in Paris for a few nights?', the model may choose to call a hotel booking plugin API, receive the response from the API, and generate a user-facing response combining the data API and its natural language capabilities."

The company also notes that using plug-ins to bridge the knowledge gap between what the model was trained on and what has happened since should help reduce the AI's tendency to hallucinate the facts when answering complex questions. "These benchmarks not only enhance the utility of the model, but also allow users to assess the reliability of model results and recheck its accuracy, potentially mitigating the risks of overreliance," the team wrote. /p>

Additional features and information provided to the model through its plugin also greatly increase the chances of the model returning problematic responses. To avoid the $100 billion hit that Google took over Bard, OpenAI would have subjected these plugins to extensive stress testing. “We conducted red team exercises, both internally and with external collaborators, which revealed a number of possible concerning scenarios,” the team wrote. They plan to use these findings to "inform security mitigations by design" to improve transparency and hinder the plugin against risky behavior.

The plugin itself is still in early alpha with limited availability. OpenAI has granted early access to a handful of partner companies, including Expedia,