This blogpost has been updated since original release to add more links and references.The ChatGPT Plugins announcement today could be viewed as the launch of ChatGPT’s “App Store”, a moment as significant as when Apple opened its App Store for the iPhone in 2008 or when Facebook let developers loose on its Open Graph in 2010. With a dozen lines of simple JSON and a mostly-english prompt to help ChatGPT understand what the plugin does, developers will be able to add extensions to ChatGPT to get information and trigger actions in the real world. OpenAI itself launched with some killer first party plugins for: * Browsing the web, * writing AND executing Python code (in an effortlessly multimodal way), * retrieving embedded documents from external datastores,* as well as 11 launch partner plugins from Expedia to Milo to Zapier.My recap thread was well received:But the thing that broke my brain was that ChatGPT’s Python Interpreter plugin can run nontrivial code - users can upload video files and ask ChatGPT to edit it, meaning it now has gone beyond mere chat to offer a substantial compute platform with storage, memory and file upload/download. I immediately started my first AI Twitter Space to process this historical moment with Alessio and friends of the pod live. OpenAI’s Logan (see Episode 1 from *last month*…) suggested that you might be able to link ChatGPT up with Zapier triggers to do arbitrary tasks! and then Flo Crivello, who just launched his AI Assistant startup Lindy, joined us to discuss the builder perspective.Tune in on this EMERGENCY EPISODE of Latent Space to hear developers ask and debate all the issues spilling out from the ChatGPT Plugins launch - and let us know in the comments if you want more/have further questions!SPECIAL NOTE: I was caught up in the hype and was far more negative on Replit than I initially intended as I tried to figure out this new ChatGPT programming paradigm. I regret this. Replit is extremely innovative and well positioned to help you develop and host ChatGPT plugins, and of course Amjad is already on top of it:Mea culpa.Timestamps* [00:00:38] First Reactions to ChatGPT Plugins* [00:07:53] Q&A: Keeping up with AI* [00:10:39] Q&A: ChatGPT Intepreter changes Programming* [00:12:27] Q&A: ChatGPT for Education* [00:15:21] Q&A: GPT4 Sketch to Website Demo* [00:16:32] Q&A: AI Competition and Human Jobs* [00:18:44] ChatGPT Plugins as App Store* [00:34:40] Google vs ChatGPT* [00:36:04] Nader Dabit on Selling His GPT App* [00:43:16] Q&A: ChatGPT Waitlist and Voice* [00:45:26] LangChain with Human in the Loop* [00:46:58] Google vs Microsoft vs Apple* [00:51:43] ChatGPT Plugin Ideas* [00:53:49] Not an app store?* [00:55:24] LangChain and the Future of AI* [01:00:48] Q&A: ChatGPT Bots and Cronjobs* [01:04:43] Logan Joins Us!* [01:07:14] Q&A: Plugins Rollout* [01:08:26] Q&A: Plugins Discovery* [01:10:00] Q&A: OpenAI vs BingChat* [01:11:03] Q&A: App Store Monetization* [01:14:45] Q&A: ChatGPT Plugins API* [01:17:17] Q&A: Python Interpreter* [01:19:58] The History of App Stores and Marketplaces* [01:22:40] LindyAI's Flo Crivello Joins Us* [01:29:42] AI Safety* [01:31:07] Multimodal GPT4* [01:32:10] Designing AI-safe APIs* [01:34:39] Flo's Closing CommentsTranscript[00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the Latent Space Emergency episode. This is our first ever where chatty PT just dropped a plugin ecosystem today, or at least they demoed their plugins. It's still on the wait list, but it is the app store moment for ai. And we did an emergency two hour space with Logan from OpenAI and Flo Coveo from Lin AI and a bunch of our friends.[00:00:28] And if you ever wanted to listen to what it's like to hear developers process in real time when a new launch happens, this is it. Enjoy,[00:00:38] First Reactions to ChatGPT Plugins[00:00:38] I assume everyone has read the blog post. For me the, the big s**t was do you see Greg Brockman's tweet about FFMPEG? I did not. I should check it out. It is amazing. Okay, so. S