As promised, OpenAI opens its online store to share and download custom versions of ChatGPT. A great way to get ready-to-use, specialized chatbots for all types of applications.
OpenAI continues to stay ahead of its competitors with the upcoming launch of its AI store, the GPT Store, which will host personalized chatbots built by users of the GPT Builder tool. The store, which will sell and share personalized artificial intelligence agents based on OpenAI's large language models, will open its doors “next week” – hopefully Europe will be there too. As The Verge reported, the startup actually sent an email to users asking them to check whether their creations were open to the public and to comply with the company's terms of service. Note that the store was originally scheduled to open its doors last November, but CEO Sam Altman's adventures within the company pushed back the deadline (see our article).
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GPT Builder: You can create your personal ChatGPT
Only introduced to the general public a year ago, ChatGPT revolutionized generative artificial intelligence and started a real AI race in the tech sector. Realize it! A text-based chatbot that can provide clear and comprehensive answers in natural language on almost any topic! Since then, all the giants have launched their own bots and Large Language Models (LLM), whether Microsoft, Google, Meta or even Elon Musk with X. But OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, seems determined to give its competitors a leg up to be ahead. while the chatbot just reached 100 million weekly users!
During DevDay – the first OpenAI developer conference in San Francisco – held on November 6, 2023, the company announced the launch of a platform that enables the creation of personalized versions of ChatGPT for emergencies. Specific use without the need for coding. These agents, called GPTs, are therefore available in the GPT Store. The company's language model will also benefit from significant improvements with GPT-4 Turbo: faster, more efficient and more cost-effective. Enough to widen the gap between OpenAI and the competition!
Personalized GPT: Personalized chatbots galore
The most resourceful users know how to get exactly what they want from ChatGPT using precise prompts. However, this requires a good knowledge of general AI and a bit of tinkering. “Since the launch of ChatGPT, people have asked for ways to customize ChatGPT for their specific uses,” OpenAI said in a statement. The startup also decided to use a tool, GPT Builder, that allows the creation of AI with a tailored personality. This time, this new service is aimed at companies that want to create automated customer service, for example. Each GPT can have access to web browsing, DALL-E image generator, and OpenAI's Code Interpreter tool for writing and running software. To meet a specific need, users can “feed” their GPTs with specific data that chatbots may not find on the web. Another feature called “Actions” allows chatbots to connect to external services to access data such as emails, calendars or databases and more. We can imagine that the owner of a hotel creates a GPT to answer various questions from customers staying there, for example by providing them with documents that allow them to know everything about the hotel. In short: Where ChatGPT is a general model, GPTs are a kind of sub-model specialized in a selected domain. And the best part is that no programming code is required!
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Anything is possible with these GPTs. It's easy to imagine someone building a GPT that specializes in learning a new language or providing interior design advice. Or even a chatbot expert in writing, a private math tutor, and even a tech advisor to troubleshoot our devices. And you don't even have to create them, as it will soon be possible to find and download these personalized chatbots – created by other users – in a GPT store. We know that only bots from people with verified identities are accepted. Additionally, OpenAI says that the creators of GPTs won't be able to see the conversations people have with them – but it's unclear what data they will have access to – and that it will monitor activity to detect things like fraud, hate speech, and Block adult content. Finally, the company promises to pay creators an unspecified amount based on usage of their GPTs. These new features will initially only be available to paying ChatGPT Plus subscribers and OpenAI corporate customers, who will initially be able to create internal GPTs for their employees.
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GPT-4 Turbo: a faster and more powerful language model
With the introduction of custom GPTs, OpenAI competes directly with other AI bot platforms such as Character.AI and Meta by introducing WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger as virtual friends. However, the start-up focuses its platform on utility, while those mentioned above rely on chatbots that behave like humans – afterwards it is quite possible to build GPTs with “human” behavior if the heart tells us so.
However, these aren't the only new features announced during DevDay. In fact, OpenAI had introduced an increasingly faster and cheaper GPT-4 called GPT-4 Turbo. First advantage: The language model is able to process more data because a query can now be 300 pages (128,000 characters) long. This is particularly useful for tasks that require a deep understanding of specific documents or long sections of code. While GPT-4 data will be available in September 2021, GPT-4 Turbo will run until April 2023. The language model is also faster and more cost-effective. Therefore, developers need to spend $0.01 per 1,000 tokens – the basic unit of code or text that the LLM needs to read – compared to $0.03 per 1,000 tokens on GPT-4.
Another problem that OpenAI has addressed: copyright. In fact, artificial intelligence-generated content doesn’t come out of nowhere. The AI only “selects” small pieces of text that are read from the Internet. Some of this content is protected by copyright. However, fear of lawsuits represents a major obstacle to the introduction of AI – OpenAI itself is the target of numerous complaints. The company has therefore launched its Copyright Shield program to cover legal costs in the event of criminal prosecution for intellectual property infringement against companies and developers using its AI. We hope that Europe will have access to all these new features at the same time as the rest of the world, since the European Union has a fairly strict data protection system that has already delayed the launch of several projects of this type, such as Google Bard and Microsoft Copilot.