OpenAI announced a slew of new products and features at Monday’s DevDay conference in San Francisco, including new tools to customize chatbots, build applications and handle speech that are meant to foster a robust developer communty around its generative AI technology.
The conference was OpenAI’s first big public event for developers, and a chance to show how it plans to service the software development community.
“Compared to every other big tech event I’ve been to, OpenAI Dev Day is the highest ‘OK, I have to go build something with this new release immediately’ score,'” according to AI advisor and investor Allie K. Miller, in a post on X (formerly Twitter). “I’m talking 11/10 builder activation score. It’s incredible.”
Here are three OpenAI products or platforms that might pique your interest for a generative AI project — plus one new open-source alternative being offered in response.
Using GPTs to customize chatbots
Probably the most eye-catching addition to OpenAI’s lineup is a new, no-code way to create customized chatbots designed for specific tasks. These bots, called GPTs, will include the option to have them answer questions from specific data supplied by their authors. That should open the door to much quicker creation of domain-specific ChatGPT-powered bots for things like customer service, documentation Q&A, or connecting to a product database.
This capability should be available for Plus and Enterprise users sometime this week at https://chat.openai.com/gpts/editor.
While people have been building chatbots powered by OpenAI for a while, this promises to be a quicker and easier way to do so. GPTs also get OpenAI’s web platform to publish on, the ChatGPT user experience, and a large language model (LLM) that provides the generative AI.
As someone who’s spent hours trying to optimize data processing so an LLM can best answer questions about a set of uploaded documents, followed by trying to decide which front end to use and where to host it, I’m interested to see how well this works.
ChatGPT Enterprise customers will be able to create bots for internal use only. Individuals can keep their bots private or public for those with a link, and developers will also have the option to publish their GPTs on a soon-to-be-launched OpenAI GPT Store. Authors of the most popular bots may get some revenue sharing, and I expect there will be a lot of developers who want to try their hands at creating a hit.
I’ve been somewhat underwhelmed with the OpenAI plug-in experience of wading through available options to find one that’s best for my task, and am not the only one who’s a bit skeptical of how the new Store will ultimately work. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pledged that the company will make sure GPTs published in the store will follow acceptable policies. However, based on other markets like Google Play, this is more difficult than it sounds. Still, given OpenAI’s current popularity, there should be plenty of…
2023-11-10 10:41:05
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