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Function calling and other API updates

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Re: Function calling and other API updates

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> With this capability also comes potential risks. We strongly recommend building in user confirmation flows before taking actions that impact the world on behalf of users (sending an email, posting something online, making a purchase, etc). Yeah thanks for the heads up Sam.

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Re: Function calling and other API updates

#132

> With this capability also comes potential risks. We strongly recommend building in user confirmation flows before taking actions that impact the world on behalf of users (sending an email, posting something online, making a purchase, etc). Yeah thanks for the heads up Sam.

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I believe it's called moving fast and breaking things.

Re: Function calling and other API updates

#133

> With this capability also comes potential risks. We strongly recommend building in user confirmation flows before taking actions that impact the world on behalf of users (sending an email, posting something online, making a purchase, etc). Yeah thanks for the heads up Sam.

I don't know what you're expecting? It's good advice. Obvious, but maybe not to everyone? People are idiots.

Re: Function calling and other API updates

#135

> With this capability also comes potential risks. We strongly recommend building in user confirmation flows before taking actions that impact the world on behalf of users (sending an email, posting something online, making a purchase, etc). Yeah thanks for the heads up Sam.

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This is a bit of an extreme take... have you never heard of a beta release?

Re: Function calling and other API updates

#136

> With this capability also comes potential risks. We strongly recommend building in user confirmation flows before taking actions that impact the world on behalf of users (sending an email, posting something online, making a purchase, etc). Yeah thanks for the heads up Sam.

How does functions work? Is it basically calling plugins?

Re: Function calling and other API updates

#137
post #136

> With this capability also comes potential risks. We strongly recommend building in user confirmation flows before taking actions that impact the world on behalf of users (sending an email, posting something online, making a purchase, etc). Yeah thanks for the heads up Sam.

How does functions work? Is it basically calling plugins?

It passes arguments back to the application to call the function.

This means that it’s the applications choice to actually call the function or not. It’s not OpenAIs problem if the json does something terrible.

Re: Function calling and other API updates

#139

> With this capability also comes potential risks. We strongly recommend building in user confirmation flows before taking actions that impact the world on behalf of users (sending an email, posting something online, making a purchase, etc). Yeah thanks for the heads up Sam.

Altman's Law: Somewhere out there is a webhook connected through a rube goldberg series of systems to nuclear launch codes... and OpenAI will find it. One function call at a time.

Re: Function calling and other API updates

#140

> With these updates, we’ll be inviting many more people from the waitlist to try GPT-4 over the coming weeks, with the intent to remove the waitlist entirely with this model. Thank you to everyone who has been patiently waiting, we are excited to see what you build with GPT-4! What about the rate limits? The docs say that it's 200 RPM and "We are unable to accommodate requests for rate limit increases due to capacit…

I’d assume part of that $10B is going towards getting on the short list to buy GPUs, but there’s only so many to go around.
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