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ChatGPT can now access the internet with new OpenAI plugins

March 24, 2023No Comments

ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot can now retrieve information from online sources and interact with third-party websites through a new plugin feature introduced by its creator, OpenAI.

The plugin feature is still in its "limited" alpha phase and will only be available to a small group of users initially before rolling out "wider scale access". Users must be added to a waiting list to access the new feature in Chat. GPT Plus, the firm saying in a March 23 announcement.

Initially, there are only 11 plugins available. These plugins range from allowing users to check scores from live sporting events to booking an international flight to buying food for delivery. The firm added that it is "gradually rolling out plugins" so that it can test their use in the real world.

โ€œPlugins are tools designed specifically for security-first language models and help ChatGPT access up-to-date information, run calculations, or use third-party services,โ€ OpenAI said.

Among the cohort of websites supporting the new plugin feature are e-commerce platforms Shopify, Klarna and Instacart and travel search engines Expedia and KAYAK.

It also supports the Wolfram math computer for calculations, and Slack, one of the largest business messaging apps, according to the announcement.

A screenshot of the API in ChatGPT when connected to third-party plugins. Fountain: open AI

Other apps include FiscalNote, Milo Family AI, OpenTable, Shop, Speak, and Zapier.

How do you access the website?

ChatGPT uses the Bing API to search for information along with a text-based web browser to navigate results and interact with websites.

Is able to synthesize information from multiple sources to give a more informed answer. It also cites the sources you used so that users can verify where ChatGPT derived their answer from.

OpenAI said the plugin's capabilities arose due to high demand from its user base since the company launched ChatGPT on November 30.

Mitchell Hashimoto, the founder of software firm HashiCorp and an early user of the ChatGPT plugin API, told his 94,300 Twitter followers on March 23 that it's one of the most "awesome" computing apps he's ever used. :

Being able to use plugins that access the internet could improve one of ChatGPT's arguably biggest shortcomings, as it's trained on data only up to September 2021 and doesn't have internet access for the latest information.

The typical response given when ChatGPT is asked a question that requires updated data. Source: Open AI

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Earlier this month, OpenAI released the latest version of its AI Chatbot, ChatGPT-4.

So far, the new version has already managed to successfully pass many of the most difficult US high school and law school exams in the 90th percentile.

Using the same version, Cointelegraph recently launched an experiment using GPT-4 to invest in cryptocurrencies using information sourced from Cointelegraph Markets and a selection of Cointelegraph's daily news, with the goal of understanding how you interpret the news to make trading decisions.

So far, the cryptocurrency portfolio is up 6.08% in seven days. You currently have an allocation consisting of 55% Bitcoin (BTC), 35% ether (ET), 5% Cardano (ADA) and 5% XRP (XPR).

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