Episode 8.71: The addition of plug-ins to the GPT family is understandable, but comes at a price.

Providing access to third-party APIs involves a major new step in the generation of artificial general intelligence. But precisely because all the GPT family so far did not reach out to 3rd parties, to the Internet or other vendors the product of their neural nets arose from what they “knew”. When they can “look up” things external to their own neural net, they cannot “think with them” and so this welcome new stage on the road to AGI is only a stepping-stone: to complete the journey all this will need to be brought inside.