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I chose plug-ins and would kill for access to code interpreter instead. The only interesting plug-in right now is wolfram and it’s not that useful. I think the

I chose plug-ins and would kill for access to code interpreter instead. The only interesting plug-in right now is wolfram and it’s not that useful. I think the application you’re outlining would be done in plugins rather than browsing. Which is probably why you wish you had plugins access.

modeless 4y ago
I agree the code interpreter is probably the coolest one. But honestly the whole plugin system seems like an unnecessary crutch to me. Wolfram Alpha has a website. Instacart has a website. It should just use the website like a human would. Figure that out and you unlock the whole web, giving you way more capability than a hundred thousand plugins ever could. And it seems feasible to do within a year or two. That's what I'm hoping the browsing plugin will become. Or maybe adept.ai will be the first. The plugin system may simply be a workaround for legal issues. Sites may prohibit bots in their ToS or robots.txt or whatever, but if they make a plugin then they're explicitly granting legal permission for OpenAI to use their stuff. But "legal permission grant" doesn't really make me excited about plugins. I like the idea that AIs could use the same UIs humans do with the same capabilities, instead of some opaque APIs that humans can't use directly. If the AI plugin APIs have less capability than the human UIs then the AIs will be hamstrung. On the other hand if the AI plugin APIs have more capability than the human UIs then humans will be forced to go through the AIs to get stuff done. Like today when you have to call a company's phone support to fix a problem with your account that can't be fixed through their public website, and you have to walk some clueless support rep through the process of using their own internal tools to fix your problem. I don't like either of those futures. This may actually be a competitive advantage for open source AI competitors vs. the big corporations. AIs from corporations have to abide by ToS and robots.txt or whatever and will be limited in capability as a result. An open source AI running on your own computer can bypass all that, pretending to be a real human and bypassing any legal or technical restrictions people try to apply to "bots". The Napster of AI.

modeless 4y ago

I agree the code interpreter is probably the coolest one. But honestly the whole plugin system seems like an unnecessary crutch to me. Wolfram Alpha has a website. Instacart has a website. It should just use the website like a human would. Figure that out and you unlock the whole web, giving you way more capability than a hundred thousand plugins ever could. And it seems feasible to do within a year or two. That's what I'm hoping the browsing plugin will become. Or maybe adept.ai will be the first. The plugin system may simply be a workaround for legal issues. Sites may prohibit bots in their ToS or robots.txt or whatever, but if they make a plugin then they're explicitly granting legal permission for OpenAI to use their stuff. But "legal permission grant" doesn't really make me excited about plugins. I like the idea that AIs could use the same UIs humans do with the same capabilities, instead of some opaque APIs that humans can't use directly. If the AI plugin APIs have less capability than the human UIs then the AIs will be hamstrung. On the other hand if the AI plugin APIs have more capability than the human UIs then humans will be forced to go through the AIs to get stuff done. Like today when you have to call a company's phone support to fix a problem with your account that can't be fixed through their public website, and you have to walk some clueless support rep through the process of using their own internal tools to fix your problem. I don't like either of those futures. This may actually be a competitive advantage for open source AI competitors vs. the big corporations. AIs from corporations have to abide by ToS and robots.txt or whatever and will be limited in capability as a result. An open source AI running on your own computer can bypass all that, pretending to be a real human and bypassing any legal or technical restrictions people try to apply to "bots". The Napster of AI.