Why do you Need Plugins in ChatGPT

Have you heard the latest from OpenAI? The company is set to launch plugins in ChatGPT. The famous AI chatbot is likely to change into a complete app store shortly. Are you excited or is this something you are skeptical about? Let’s dive deep into what’s new with ChatGPT with this latest update.

OpenAI has been hard at work developing new and updated features for ChatGPT. With big tech giants such as Google and Microsoft also developing their own AI chatbots, it is only expected out of OpenAI to step up its game every day and provide better and more efficient solutions.

Keeping this in mind, yesterday, OpenAI announced its latest introduction to ChatGPT. The company is set to launch plugins for the AI chatbot.

You might be wondering, why you need plugins with ChatGPT. Based on the blog by OpenAI itself, here’s why plugins are the next big thing for AI chatbots, especially, ChatGPT.

Need for Plugins in ChatGPT:

The thing about any AI chatbot that we often forget is that the knowledge they have is limited. A chatbot is made by feeding it a limited amount of training data and the answers you get when you type in a prompt are based on the data that it has available.

Of course, no matter how much training data you feed to your chatbot, there is no guarantee that you have to feed it the entire history of everything. That's just not possible.

So, what happens when you ask a chatbot something it can't answer? it gives you incorrect data. Now, as a developer, you would not want your chatbot to give wrong answers. We have seen that with Bing already. Inaccurate or false data can quickly devalue your chatbot and deem it untrustworthy.

This issue that training data is limited in a chatbot is something OpenAI had been facing since its launch as well. The company has finally come up with a solution to resolve this issue with the help of plugins.

Plugins are a great way to store specific data and fetch it as per the requirement of the user. This means that your AI chatbot does not need to have all the answers. Instead, it can have the right plugin that will provide that answer for you.

How to Use Plugins

Now, that you know what exactly is the need for plugins, let's look at how you can use these plugins while using ChatGPT.

Consider you open up your AI chatbot and now want to make a delicious dinner for yourself. The old ChatGPT is great at giving you some good recommendations for what you can make.

Let’s imagine that based on your cravings, ChatGPT tells you, you should eat a pizza. Now, let’s also imagine that you are diet conscious, want to buy all the right ingredients for that pizza, and even would some restaurant recommendations to buy a good pizza.

This is where plugins come into play. With the new plugins by ChatGPT, such as OpenTable, Wolfram Alpha, and InstaCart you can do all of the above tasks. You can use OpenTable to find a restaurant that serves the best pizza in town, use Wolfram Alpha to calculate how many calories are in your pizza, and use InstaCart to order all the ingredients to make the perfect pizza at home.

OpenAI has been hard at work developing unique ways you can interact with ChatGPT. The introduction of plugins is another exciting addition that has come out this weekend. The addition of plugins in ChatGPT is in its early stages at the moment. The company is set to launch these plugins to the world as soon as they are completely developed and ready for the world.

Are you excited about the new addition of plugins to ChatGPT? Let me know in the comments below if you think this is a good by OpenAI.