There is a new plug-in for Chatgpt that can help you get better information.

Image Credit: Omisoft OpenAI announced the launch of new plugins that allow the chatbot to access third-party APIs and make it better at responding to certain situations, on Thursday. These plugins follow the March release of the new GPT-4 engine and Whisper API, which made ChatGPT even more powerful. With the latest GPT-4 upgrade, developers can use ChatGPT to add real-time information and access specific knowledge-based information about sports, stocks, and other topics to their chatbots. This means that chatbots can now do things like get sports scores and stock prices, or book flights and order food. The OpenAI team stated, “The AI model acts as an intelligent API caller. Given an API spec and a natural-language description of when to use the API, the model proactively calls the API to perform actions. For instance, if a user asks, ‘Where should I stay in Paris for a couple of nights?’, the model may choose to call a hotel reservation plugin API, receive the API response, and generate a user-facing answer combining the API data and its natural language capabilities.” Image Credit: estertupy.pl OpenAI has found that using plugins can help prevent AI models from hallucinating facts while answering complex questions. This means that the models will be able to better connect the information that they have been trained on with what is currently happening. This is especially important because it allows users to verify the accuracy of the model's output and determine whether it is trustworthy. The ChatGPT plugins provide extra abilities and knowledge, which can make the ChatGPT model more powerful and knowledge-rich. This can make the model more likely to create problems, so OpenAI has been working to make sure the plugins are safe. They have done this by doing internal and external tests, and by developing measures to make sure the plugins are transparent and cannot do risky things. The company says that using plug-ins to bridge the knowledge gap between what the model was trained on and what has been happening recently will help reduce the AI's tendency to hallucinate facts when answering complex questions. The plug-in is still in early alpha, but a few partner companies have been granted early access to it, companies including Expedia, Instacart, KAYAK, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Wolfram, and Zapier. You will need to sign up for the waitlist to be able to try it out.