ChatGPT plugins are now available, what are they and how to use them?

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2023-05-18 23:41:02

For ChatGPT to date (May 18, 2023) the president of Colombia is still Iván Duque. If asked this, the AI ​​replies: “As of my knowledge updated in September 2021, the President of Colombia is Iván Duque Márquez. Howeverkeep in mind that my information may be out of date, Therefore, I would recommend that you verify the most recent information about the president of Colombia by consulting reliable sources or updated media,” this was what he wrote when asked.

This system is based in the GPT model, which is a language that translates into code the words that each person writes and to respond with a natural language -human- in a coherent way to what was asked. The only problem now is that it is not updated and all the information you have is from the end of September 2021 (in the case of version 3.5 using the free version), so you answer inaccurately.

For this they were created plugins the ChatGPT, a tool created that allows artificial intelligence to access current information on specific topics, so that it has more up-to-date response abilities.

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The Xataka medium, specialized in technology, gave an example that this artificial intelligence cannot recommend trips or flights. But there are extensions (plugins) that allow ChatGPT to access updated information from these services and can search for flights and say current prices.

In a certain way, the plugins are added so that ChatGPT has new functionalities and can offer more information. These are free, but only available in the ChatGPT Plus version, that works with a paid subscription.

They allow you to search for content on the web with ChatGPT. There are also plugins to process videos, to execute code in a more reliable way or to access third-party content, as explained by Xataka.

How to download them?

If you have the ChatGPT Plus version, you must enter the configuration and click the section Beta features to activate the option Plugins.

On the main screen of ChatGPT Plus, activate the GPT-4 model and it has a button to open options. There the Plugins option is activated in the model.

When the plugins are activated, under the GPT model options there will be a button where you can see the activated plugins where the option of Plugin store to install new plugins and activate and deactivate them whenever the person wants.

It is important to remember that these days there has been a concern about the regulation of ChatGPT. In fact, Sam Altam, CEO of OpenAi, expressed in the US Senate that it should be regulate artificial intelligence and contain the risks that this technology can bring.

“We believe that the regulatory intervention of governments will be crucial to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful models,” estimated the 38-year-old businessman, the last figure to emerge from Silicon Valley.

And it was also known that the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC) opened an investigation to determine if it complies or violates the rights of the users of this tool.

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