In case you missed it, TikTok is back in the news. CEO Shou Zi Chew appeared before Congress yesterday in an attempt to save the app from a US wide ban.

Another week, another flurry of AI launches, Adobe launched Firefly, Github released Copilot X, and Google expanded Bard access.

It doesn’t end there, though.

Yesterday, OpenAI dropped possibly one of its biggest updates yet; ChatGPT plugins. It massively expands on the chatbot's capabilities and, for the first time, gives it access to live data from the web.

One of the frustrations users have had with ChatGPT in the past is that it’s limited to pulling results from its training data, which ends in 2021.

Plugins change this. ChatGPT will now be able to browse and pull up-to-date data from the web, and alongside that, it will be able to interact with 3rd party applications to complete tasks like running code, editing a video, and learning a new language.

In one video by OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, the chatbot quickly develops a recipe and uses the Instacart plugin to order the ingredients needed. Home cooks rejoice!

OpenAI says it’s rolling out access to a “small set of users” first before embarking on a wider rollout. As it stands right now, there are 11 third-party plugins for users to play around with, and OpenAI has provided some of their own plugins as well.

Developer frenzy: While it’s cool seeing these plugins take ChatGPT to new heights, what’s even more exciting is OpenAI announcing its giving access to developers on a waitlist. It’s hard to imagine the limitations of what can be built.

So whatever you want ChatGPT to do, just remember..

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