How to Make API Requests with Your Custom GPT

Learn how to give your GPTs super powers — connecting them to the outside world

Ibrahim Saidi
Towards AI Engineering

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Agents are the future of software. They’ll gradually be able to plan and execute more complex actions on your behalf. Imagine a world where agents work together to analyse stocks for you. This is not some futuristic wish, the technology is already here.

There’s little surprise then that OpenAI have officially entered the AI agents arena, and they’re calling their version of agents GPTs, with the developer version being the Assistants API.

While the idea of agents in software is not a new concept, they’ve become popular again because they can now be powered by Large Language Models, and soon they’ll be powered by multi-model models.

Agents can be defined as an having autonomous function. That is, if we give it a task or a list of tasks, it’s able to execute those tasks autonomously.

Instead of being limited to their internal knowledge, we can provide these models with tools to allow them to take actions on the already existing software stack (think of ChatGPT knowing when to browse the internet based on your query).

One of the major reasons why agents are gaining traction again is that these Large Language…

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