Ajit Karn
OpenAI makes its ChatGPT tool available to businesses for incorporation into their own applications as it pursues commercial applications for the extremely popular chatbot.
The company, which introduced ChatGPT to the public in November, is now offering businesses and developers paid access to the software’s ability to answer queries and generate text for their own applications and products. Customers will be able to connect their applications to ChatGPT’s application programming interface, granting them access to the same version of the GPT 3.5 model used by OpenAI at a price 10 times less than OpenAI’s existing models. Instacart, Shopify, and Snap are among the companies using the ChatGPT API in their products, according to a blog post published by San Francisco-based OpenAI on Wednesday.
OpenAI’s best-known artificial intelligence systems from the past year — ChatGPT, which generates text, and DALL-E, an image generator — have generated significant public interest, but the company must also figure out how to accelerate revenue growth and pay for the enormous cloud-computing bills these massive AI models rack up. In January, OpenAI reportedly negotiated a $10 billion expansion of Microsoft Corporation’s investment in the company (nearly Rs. 82,400 crore). OpenAI began a waitlist for companies and developers who want to use ChatGPT in their own applications and began marketing a premium version of ChatGPT to individuals last month.
The AI research firm acknowledged that ChatGPT has been unavailable too frequently in recent months and stated that it will prioritise companies and users operating public applications on the platform. “Over the past two months, our uptime has not met our own or our users’ expectations,” OpenAI wrote. The stability of production use cases is currently our engineering team’s top priority.
Instacart, the largest online grocery delivery service in the United States, will integrate ChatGPT with its own artificial intelligence and product catalogue into its purchasing app. Customers will be able to ask the app to do things such as recommend healthful alternatives for children and provide instructions for making delicious fish tacos, according to the company. Shopify will also integrate the chatbot into its consumer app; when consumers seek for a product, ChatGPT will provide suggestions.
Quizlet, an electronic learning tools company, is developing an AI tutoring experience using ChatGPT’s question-and-answer format to simulate the Socratic method, according to CEO Lex Bayer. For foreign language study, ChatGPT can also generate a story in the target language and assess reading comprehension, or transform a vocabulary list into a paragraph.
It is a use for the chatbot that may be more appealing to teachers, who have been primarily concerned about students using it to deceive and automate their assignments.
“With any novel technology, there will be apprehension,” said Bayer. We are continually pushing the limits of technology and utilising it in a manner that is truly beneficial for students.
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On Monday, Snap, the creator of the photo-sharing app Snapchat, announced it is also among the new ChatGPT customers, releasing an AI-enabled chatbot for Snapchat Plus subscribers, who pay $3.99 (approximately Rs. 330) per month. Snapchat’s My AI, which has been trained to display a “unique tone and personality,” can be used to recommend birthday gift ideas, dinner recipes, and “even compose a sonnet about cheese for your cheddar-obsessed friend,” according to the company. It will eventually be made available to all Snap users.
Separately on Wednesday, OpenAI unveiled access to its transcription-capable speech recognition system, Whisper.
