I want to try before forming an opinion but I cannot access GPTs ? Is it lunched yet ? Is there a approval process?
I just checked and yes I have access to both gpt-4-1106-preview and gpt-4-1106-vision-preview right now.
No time to check anything else, gotta write so much code today!
Don’t have ChatGPT, so no idea on GPTs.
It’s launching!
What you got cookin curt?
This is a complete sentence, I think.
Sadly, I need to finish this big CRM integration. 
But hope to play around and build with the AI later this week 
Code? We don’t need no stinkin’ code! We got ChatGPT!!!
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No this CRM code interacts with all kinds of cloud stuff, so it’s faster and more efficient to code it directly. I wish I could just hit a magic button and have the product done.
But if I could do that, we’d all be jobless and on UBI living in our little communes.
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Just as accounting software that can prepare your taxes has not replaced accountants, this new tech is not obsoleting developers in the way everybody is thinking.
After playing around with the assistant in the playground, and assuming the GPTs are built on this, I think OpenAI may have made it’s first big mistake: Overreach. Super big companies do it all the time: Google, Microsoft, Meta… They are now getting into the areas of content management and vector storage and retrieval, which are not their strength.
Consequently, they have created a bigger opportunity than anybody realizes for developers, particularly those with “wrapper” applications.
What do I mean?
Well, why are businesses and the general public considering Artificial Intelligence at all? Because, as David Shapiro would say, it can perform a number of tasks “better, cheaper, faster”. Existing chat-with-your-pdf applications today can do what this new assistant api technology can do NOT better, but “faster and cheaper” – and almost as good. And I think “almost as good” is going to be good enough for a sizable market share.
I mean, I could be wrong. But, since we’re all speculating here, I figured why not use a little historical context as well? Guess we’ll all see for sure soon enough.
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Yeah I’m not so much worried about this update and more worried about AGI in the form of many autonomous agents that could then replace entire work forces.
Unless the accounting software did it automatically for you in which case then it would get rid of accountants, which with AGI you would theoretically be able to do.
Maybe true Im not so impressed with it either and I keep reading about all the bugs people are getting. I’m knee deep in my own existing projects so I haven’t had too much time to play with the Assistants
Depends on what the thing is. But yeah hopefully these new bots actually suck and it keeps us as developers ahead of those who can only use their GUI.
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So, I just did a little comparison test between the assistant api and my RAG app using the same exact document. Not only did my app give better, more detailed responses, but it also returned source citations (heh heh). I know it’s just a teeny tiny little detail, but there are a LOT of folks who not only want an accurate answer, but citations from the source to corroborate.
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Well… here is what I thought.
Let OpenAI do whatever they want to do, if it is legally allowed. They conduct their own business, and we, as developers, follow them.
I believe they will have many trial and error experiences, so I am sticking with my current system at the moment, using chat completion APIs only.
Also, they might close some projects if those projects are not successful. So, we also need to think about which APIs will survive in the future.
If they successfully develop tools (such as RAG), we can just use their tools; not an issue for me.
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To be honest, I believe business people need more complex features than just RAG (Like, I need something more than RAG). So, yes, still you need to do many things to do as a developer, even if OpenAI develops something unique. That would not be enough and yes even if that is AGI, still not enough for the business by itself.
It depends upon the business people and their actual needs (not the ones we invent for them).
I was going to start another topic, but my question still actually refers to this topic.
I have tested the same questions against the same documents with the same models using both the assistants api and my application and, as I stated above, am getting consistently better responses using, just like you, the existing completion API.
GPTs and the Assistant API are great new tools, but as someone alluded earlier, I think they are targeted and optimized for non-developer end-users. In this early stage of the game, an AI NOT being able to tell you where in a document it pulled it’s information is NOT a strong selling point in my opinion.
All that above to say, I heartily agree.
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