The ‘GPTs’ feature potentially reduces the need for paid subscribers to enter complex prompts, the OpenAI team claimed.
Artificial intelligence (AI) system ChatGPT now allows users to create their own generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs), according to a November 6 blog post from developer Open AI. This means that users can now create custom ChatGPT apps that handle a variety of tasks, instead of needing to enter long strings of commands into the chat window to perform these tasks.
According to OpenAI’s post, they found that many users were storing text files that they used to frame how ChatGPT responded to prompts. Each time these “power users” opened ChatGPT, they had to cut and paste these text fields into the program’s chat box before performing any tasks. The team launched GPTs as a means of alleviating this problem, as they stated:
Many power users maintain a list of carefully crafted prompts and instruction sets, manually copying them into ChatGPT. GPTs now do all of that for you
OpenAI also stated that a new store for GPT will open “later this month.” The store will allow developers to sell their GPTs, similar to a mobile app store. Only “verified builders” can list GPTs, and measures have been implemented to ensure user privacy and safety during the store’s rollout.
Users can publicly share their GPTs, while enterprises can create “internal-only” GPTs for specific departments or authorized employees. Notably, Amgen, Bain, and Square have already integrated GPTs for various purposes.
Despite its popularity, ChatGPT faces competition from Google’s Bard and Anthropic’s Claude 2. Elon Musk also introduced his own AI chat program, “Grok,” on November 5.
