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Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by majormajor »

kacperlukawski wrote: post #34
snickerbockers wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>It seems like factuality issues with ChatGPT might be fixed. Is that really possible to fix that just from a plug-in? All it has to do is admit when it doesn't have the answer, and yet it won't even do that. This leads me to think that ChatGPT doesn't even know when it's lying, so i can't imagine how a plug-in will fix that.

The fact that the model does not have to rely on its internal knowledge anymore but can communicate literally with any external system makes me feel it may significantly reduce the hallucination.

If it was easy to simply verify truth "with any external system" then would we even need a language model?

E.g. if you could just ask [THING] for the true answer, or verify an answer trivially with it... just ask it directly!

I ran into this issue with some software documentation just this morning - the answer was helpful but completely wrong in some intermediate steps - but short of a plugin that literally controlled or cloned a similar dev environment to mine that it would take over, it wouldn't be able to tell that the intermediate result was different than it claimed.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by elaus »

Any idea how this is done? I.e. is it just priming the underlying GPT model with plugin information additionally to the user input ("you can ask Wolfram Alpha by replying 'hey wolfram: ...' ") and performing API calls when the GPT model returns certain keywords ('hey wolfram: $1')?

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by tbrock »

sharemywin wrote: post #26
mikeknoop wrote: post #17

(Zapier cofounder) Super excited for this. Tool use for LLMs goes way beyond just search. Zapier is a launch partner here -- you can access any of the 5k+ apps / 20k+ actions on Zapier directly from within ChatGPT. We are eager to see how folks leverage this composability. Some new example capabilities are retrieving data from any app, draft and send messages/emails, and complex multi step reasoning like look up data…

The problem with Zapier is zaps are to expensive at scale.

And Zapier are unwilling to work with you to reduce that cost even at a scale of 1 billion requests per month.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by DustinBrett »

londons_explore wrote: post #33

Does this functionality provide more than one can build with the GPT-4 API? Could I get the same by just making my prompt "You are a computer and can run the following tools to help you answer the users question: run_python('program'), google_search('query')". Other people have done this already, for example [1] [1]: https://vgel.me/posts/tools-not-needed/

The docs are live, it looks like it can do a lot more than the basic API. https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/introduction

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by blackoil »

Truly exciting to see the speed of progress. In couple of years it has got improvements of a decade. From a silly toy, to truly useful. Won't be surprised if in another year or two it becomes a must have tool.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

#46

Post by jyrkesh »

Everyone's been talking about how ChatGPT will disrupt search, but looking at the launch partners, I think this has the potential to completely subvert the OS / App Store layer. On some level, how much do I need an OpenTable app if I can use voice/text input and a multi-modal response that will ultimately book my reservation?

Not saying mobile's going away, but this could be the thing that does to mobile what mobile did to desktop.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by yodon »

londons_explore wrote: post #33

Does this functionality provide more than one can build with the GPT-4 API? Could I get the same by just making my prompt "You are a computer and can run the following tools to help you answer the users question: run_python('program'), google_search('query')". Other people have done this already, for example [1] [1]: https://vgel.me/posts/tools-not-needed/

> Could I get the same by just making my prompt "You are a computer and can run the following functions to help you answer the users question: run_python('program'), google_search('query')".

GPT-4 does not have a way to search the internet without plugins. It can search its training dataset, which is large, but not as large as the internet and certainly doesn't include private resources that a plugin can access.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by WadeF »

tbrock wrote: post #43
sharemywin wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with Zapier is zaps are to expensive at scale.

And Zapier are unwilling to work with you to reduce that cost even at a scale of 1 billion requests per month.

Email your use case: wade at zapier dot com. Happy to take a look.
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