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🤖 Did the AI app store just launch?
OpenAI has launched plugins for its AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT.
🤖 Did the AI app store just launch?
OpenAI has launched plugins for its AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, which allow it to browse the internet and access third-party knowledge sources and databases. The plugins, available in alpha to ChatGPT users and developers on the waitlist, include a web-browsing plugin allowing ChatGPT to draw data from around the web to answer questions. The plugin retrieves content from the web using the Bing search API and shows any websites it visited in crafting an answer, citing its sources in ChatGPT’s responses.
OpenAI admits that a web-enabled ChatGPT might perform all types of undesirable behaviors, but the company says that it’s “implemented several safeguards” to prevent this.
The first plugins have been created by Expedia, FiscalNote, Instacart, KAYAK, Klarna, Milo, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Speak, Wolfram, and Zapier.
Here is a Twitter thread showing how it will work.
We’ve added initial support for ChatGPT plugins — a protocol for developers to build tools for ChatGPT, with safety as a core design principle. Deploying iteratively (starting with a small number of users & developers) to learn from contact with reality: httpopenai.com/blog/chatgpt-p…p
— Greg Brockman (@gdb)
5:02 PM • Mar 23, 2023
Expedia example:
With our new AI Plugin, a traveler can start a conversation with #ChatGPT to plan their next trip–complete with access to up-to-date information on the availability & price of flights, hotels, vacation rentals, activities, & car rentals across the world. https://bit.ly/3LKU5gI/
— Expedia Group (@ExpediaGroup)
5:58 PM • Mar 23, 2023
KAYAK example:
Robot’s out of the bag. We’re now integrated with Chat GPT, the cutting-edge language model developed by OpenAI. Now, you’ll be able to use AI technology to plan your travel. (A thread: written by AI, edited by humans)
— KAYAK (@KAYAK)
5:24 PM • Mar 23, 2023
If the revelation of ChatGPT was the “iPhone” moment for Generative AI, then this is the App Store moment. The first iPhone was released in June 2007; the App Store was launched in July 2008. As seen in the graph below, the true commercial breakthrough actually started the year the App store was launched.
Source: Statista.com
The growth of ChatGPT is obviously staggering. It’s is the fastest App to ever reach 1 million users (5 days), in it’s first month it crossed 57 million users and in January 2023 the service exceeded 100 million users. How big it is now, we do not know.
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