OpenAI held its first developer conference

OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, held its first developer conference where it unveiled some big news. One of the most interesting announcements was the ability to create custom bots, which will allow ChatGPT to be customized for a variety of tasks, from advising on improving startups to writing recipes. Bot creation will be done on the OpenAI platform with no programming required, simply by interacting with ChatGPT. Users will be able to give bots initial instructions and additional task-specific knowledge.

Custom bots will be able to search for information on the Internet, generate images, analyze data and interact with third-party services such as Canva and Zapier. In the future, it will be possible to monetize the bots created. The end of November will see the launch of the OpenAI online store, where users will be able to sell access to their bots.

The company has also updated the GPT-4 model by training it on fresh data. The model now has knowledge of events up to April this year, whereas previously it was limited to September 2021. The new model is faster, more accessible, and its ability to process text in a single query has increased to 128,000 tokens, roughly equivalent to 300 pages of text.

In addition, OpenAI introduced several APIs for developers, including an API for working with the new speech synthesis model. A demo version of the Hugging Face algorithm is available at link. It allows users to write their text, select one of the available voices and get an audio recording of the synthesized speech.