New ChatGPT Update Finally Allows It To Deliver Information Beyond 2021
Just shortly after OpenAI debuted its more powerful GPT-4 engine, the company recently announced it was beginning to introduce new updates for ChatGPT, which will finally allow the popular chatbot to access real-time data.
Till now, the algorithm only accessed information from 2021, so it hasn’t been able to come up with answers on current sports scores, up-to-date news, or anything that occurred starting from January 1, 2022.
Breaking
— Linus (â—á´—â—) (@LinusEkenstam) March 23, 2023
Plug-ins in ChatGPT
Wow, this changes the playing field completely.
What plug-in will you build?
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Soon, with the new plugins, users will be able to integrate real-time statistics into third-party APIs, where it not only will be able to pull real-time information from Wall Street, the latest sports news, or breaking events, but also specific information from one’s personal cloud.
Even more impressively, the chatbot can be tasked with completing actions on behalf of a user, such as booking a flight or making a hotel reservation when asked the question “Where should I stay in Paris for a couple nights?”
ChatGPT-4 now allows plug-ins.
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) March 23, 2023
We have just used ChatGPT-4 to create a ChatGPT-4 plug-in.
This is quite interesting.
(Specimen image is not our plug-in)
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In addition, OpenAI said the plugins—which will help bridge the gap between the information the system was trained on in 2021 and what’s happened since—may help to reduce the software’s tendency to hallucinate facts.
Of course, with how much more ChatGPT is expected to be able to do, there’s an increased chance it may return problematic or incorrect responses when asked complex questions.
Chat → Shop → Check Out 🤖
— Shop (@shop) March 23, 2023
Shop's new @OpenAI plug-in gives you instant, personalized shopping recommendations right in ChatGPT pic.twitter.com/Ybj6VjDftu
To address this, the firm said it conducted extensive stress tests for the plug-ins, both internally and with external collaborators that revealed “a number of possible concerning scenarios” it is working to address.
At the moment, the plug-ins are only available to a select group of applications, including the likes of Expedia, FiscalNote, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, Milo, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Speak, Wolfram, and Zapier.
[via Engadget and TechCrunch, cover image via Wirestock | Dreamstime.com]
