Ten months after unveiling the iPhone, then Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a splash with an open letter letting the world know that third-party developers would be able to write their apps for the smartphone and sell them exclusively through an online store run by the tech giant. The rest, as they say, is history.
A year after making ChatGPT available to the world, parent company OpenAI is now doing something similar, telling the world at its developers conference last week that anyone — “no coding is required” — will be able to create custom versions of its natural language chatbot and make them available through an online store. Instead of apps, OpenAI is calling these specialized AI chatbots “GPTs.”
“GPTs are tailored versions of ChatGPT for a specific purpose,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at the OpenAI DevDay conference. In a demo, he asked the tech to build an advice-giving app for startups based on videos of his own talks that he uploaded. “Eventually, you’ll have your personalized GPTs that can call out to lots of other GPTs. You’ll be able to accomplish very complex things by bringing different services together.”
GPTs have the potential to push ChatGPT and generative or conversational AI technology even further into the mainstream, noted CNET’s Stephen Shankland. He described OpenAI’s news as OpenAI going for an “iPhone moment.”
“The new special-purpose GPT technology could help take AI to a new level,” Shankland wrote. “For one thing, the GPT app idea could help people get more use out of AI with focused tools. For another, being able to tune those tools to your own needs — for example with a particular data set or image style — could improve AI beyond the vast, generic abilities that come with ChatGPT today. Last, building an app store is a tried and true way for a big business to turn a broad computing foundation into a business that lots of people pay to use.”
OpenAI will publish many of the custom chatbots through a new GPT Store launching later this…
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