Function calling and other API updates Function Calling is the principle of ChatGPT Plugins or Browse mode, which is an interface to connect third-party applications with GPT.

  • I wrote a little about it here 641ab837aff09e00005ddc0e.
    • Toolformer-like approach is attractive in the long term as a combination of (existing services and) ChatGPT-like

      • An evolution of the “Toolformer-like approach” of
    • At that time
      • At this point (3/23), LangChain’s agent looks close, but I can’t decide if this will be the de facto standard in 6 months or if it will have collapsed.

      • but as of today, “the original company has started to provide it as an API, so that one is likely to become the de facto”.

Tweets by OpenAI people https://twitter.com/shanegjp/status/1668786441089073152

The Function API has been added to the ChatGPT API! This is effectively an API version of ChatGPT Plugins! The large language model (Software 2.0) itself had limited computation and knowledge and zero real-world execution capability. This allows for easy integration with all existing software (Software 1.0). Of course, there are a lot of things that have been done with open-source prompt engineering and scripting before this, but this API will be officially supported by OpenAI, so the accuracy will increase and continue to increase.


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