ChatGPT Basics: Enable Third-Party Plug-Ins
There’s another kind of data that isn’t accessible to GPT-3: collections of data that are held by third parties. For example, you might want to ask it to plan a vacation, but it doesn’t have access to airline schedules, hotel information, hotel and restaurant recommendations, and such. That information is collected and maintained by third parties and isn’t generally available on the web (though you can search for some of it). We’ve also noted in previous shortcuts that ChatGPT is poor at doing math. And we’ve also noted many times that ChatGPT often makes up citations to articles.
Third-party plug-ins help here. The process is similar to enabling Bing search:
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First, go to Settings, then Beta features and enable Plugins.
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Next, create a new GPT-4 session, select Plugins as your model (under GPT-4) and you’ll see a link to the plug-in store. Use the store to install some plug-ins (and forgive the developers of ChatGPT for their poor design). Here’s what the list looks like:
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Some plug-ins may ask you to enable two-factor authentication, or ask you to sign into an account. For this shortcut’s transcript, I selected Kayak (a site for travel planning), ScholarAI (for looking up academic research articles), and Wolfram (for mathematics) plug-ins.
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Once you’re installed ...
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