OpenAI is rolling out over 70 third-party plugins to ChatGPT Plus users, allowing the tool to better access the internet and expand its capabilities for delegating tasks.
- The plugins cover a range of industries and business ventures, including shopping, real estate, stocks, travel, and food.
- Users can install multiple plugins but are only able to use three at a time.
- The service costs $20 a month and provides access to OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 model, an upgrade over ChatGPT-3, but still flawed.
- Some plugins, like "AskYourPDF" and "ChatWithPDF," allow users to provide a URL of a PDF document for ChatGPT to parse through. However, plugins are still in beta, and some, like "ndricks Sports," do not have links back to the sources of their provided information.
- The implementation of plugins represents a significant shift in ChatGPT's capabilities and gives the AI tool the ability to access the internet, which could potentially have unknown consequences.
