Good morning, this is Tools of AI- your friend who spends all week obsessing over AI just to give you the low-down every Saturday.
Let’s get to it:
This week was VERY action packed, but perhaps the biggest news was that Open AI launched a plugin ecosystem, which seems like an even bigger deal than CHAT GPT-4 which released 2 weeks ago.
What does this mean, in layman’s terms?
It’s basically Open AI’s version of the Google or iOS app store ecosystem. Now, people can build plugins, apps, whatever you want to call it that connect to Chat GPT.
How would it work?
Let me give you an example- imagine this:
You search in Chat GPT: “what are some of the most romantic date spots in Istanbul?”
Chat GPT gives you a list of 5 places that are hyper personalised to you, then plans a trip based on your calendar, availability of your partner, etc, suggests flights and books tickets, hotel stay, cabs etc- all in one go.
It will have the ability to ‘execute’, say a flight booking, because the Bookings.com app will be a plugin on the Open AI ecosystem that will allow ALL the booking to be conducted.
This is just ONE example. Imagine all the small tasks you do manually- all carried out by one very intelligent assistant who now has the ability to execute tasks because of the plugin environment.
Great news for all of us.
Very, very bad news for Google search.
Here’s why:
For most people today, the ‘internet’ is synonymous with Google.
In most peoples’ minds, there is no mental concept of what the internet looks like other than Google’s search interface.
However, I believe that all of us will soon transition to a Chat interface model of the internet- and the Open AI plugin announcement just kickstarted that process.
This creates tremendous opportunity for those people who build apps specifically for this version of the internet.
The first movers who capitalised on the iOS app store launch became very successful very fast. I think Open AI’s plugin announcement is even bigger than that.
The best part? AI is making it easier to build applications every day. I’ve read multiple threads on twitter now where people with 0 coding experience have built simple chrome plugins already.
Perhaps I’ll cover a step-by-step on that if you’re interested (let me know)
Anyway- that’s all for this week.
Talk later,
Shubhankar