This sounds like a game-changer for any kind of API interaction with ChatGPT.
At present, we are naively pushing all information a session might need into the session before it might be needed in case it might be needed (meaning a lot of info that generally wont end up being used, like realtime updates to associated data records, needs to be pushed into the session as they happen, just in case).
It looks like plugins will allow us to flip that around and have the session pull information it might need as it needs it, which would be a huge improvement.
I think OpenAI is letting people build plugins to learn how to build plugins themselves. There is no reason to believe that OpenAI shouldn't be able to leverage all existing API end points which are already out there.
At present, we are naively pushing all information a session might need into the session before it might be needed in case it might be needed (meaning a lot of info that generally wont end up being used, like realtime updates to associated data records, needs to be pushed into the session as they happen, just in case).
It looks like plugins will allow us to flip that around and have the session pull information it might need as it needs it, which would be a huge improvement.