OpenAI’s next big bet: Custom GPTs for everyone

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OpenAI’s next big bet: Custom GPTs for everyone

By Sage Lazzaro | Fortune Magazine | November 15, 2023

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OpenAI on Thursday announced Data Partnerships, a program for collaborating with third parties to build datasets for training AI models. A blog post introducing the program says the company is “interested in large-scale datasets that reflect human society and that are not already easily accessible online to the public today.” 

It goes on to state that OpenAI is seeking partners to help it create an open-source dataset for training LLMs as well as private datasets for training proprietary AI models, including its own foundation, fine-tuned, and custom models. It’s not exactly clear what participating in this program looks like (there’s no mention of compensation, data ownership, etc.). But it’s clear the private dataset efforts will go beyond empowering AGI in theory and will directly enrich OpenAI’s own models, and therefore its bottom line. 

While OpenAI has yet to release the GPT Store, which it says will roll out later this month, users jumped at the opportunity to compile GPTs themselves and have already created various public lists and searchable GPT repositories. There’s a wide range of single-function GPTs doing everything from creating playlists (like PlaylistAI:Spotify) to emulating specific people (like Paul Graham and Elon Musk). 

Most notably, a large swath of purely playful GPTs that reminded us of the earlier days of the internet. For example, there’s FortuneTeller GPT (described as a “cryptic and mystical AI agent”), OppositeDay GPT (which answers inquiries with the opposite of the truth), RoastMeGPT (self-explanatory), and PessimismGPT (which had some interesting things to say about OpenAI). There’s even PirateSpeakGPT, which communicates exclusively in the style of a stereotypical pirate and elicits memories of when everyone discovered how to change their language to “Pirate” on Facebook.  

These are far from Earth-shattering use cases, but they do show how GPTs are opening up new lanes for people to get creative on an internet that often feels as if it’s lost its magic. Not to mention, it is pretty amazing that people with zero technical expertise can create these models in minutes using only natural language—not a single line of code is required. 

Now we just have to wait for the killer app, or in this case, the killer GPTs.

3 key takeaways from the article

1. OpenAI on Thursday announced Data Partnerships, a program for collaborating with third parties to build datasets for training AI models.
2. While OpenAI has yet to release the GPT Store, which it says will roll out later this month, users jumped at the opportunity to compile GPTs themselves and have already created various public lists and searchable GPT repositories. There’s a wide range of single-function GPTs doing everything from creating playlists to emulating specific people.
3. These are far from Earth-shattering use cases, but they do show how GPTs are opening up new lanes for people to get creative on an internet that often feels as if it’s lost its magic. Not to mention, it is pretty amazing that people with zero technical expertise can create these models in minutes using only natural language—not a single line of code is required.

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Topics:  Technology, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT