OpenAI meets OpenAPI

The world of software engineering, application development, digital “service” providing at large, and any SAS startup or big venture is in an unstoppable course to become obsolete if they don’t change and adapt fast.

With the rise of the OpenAI GPT store, a new door opens to connect edge AI Foundation Models with almost anything else, quite easy. (at least if they have enough AI Brains to cope up).

Most people creating Custom ChatGPTs are underusing them, if they just use the cool guided GPT creator, or if they just upload a few files, even they use well the connection to the great coding capabilities, document analyst or the image creation tools.

The real power for Custom GPTs (also for the Assistants with the API) is if you connect the OpenAI ecosystem to the outside world, not just to browse the web, or use a few already made plugins, but for a deeper connection with literally millions of services some “free” some paid.

Since through custom “Actions” now you connect to anything that complies with OpenAPI specification, thanks to a incredible team of people like Darrel Miller Jeremy Whitlock Marsh Gardiner Mike Ralphson Ron Ratovsky Uri Sarid Jason Harmon Tony Tam and many others behind it.

If you don’t know what and API is or if you don't know what OpenAPI is, it’s the time to learn more, you can ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or some of the open llm models about it.

Because you should be providing whatever service you provide as a set of callable functions that complies with the OpenAPI standard if you want to remain competitive, and do it fast, otherwise you can live a “Kodak” or “BlockBuster” moment pretty soon.

"Open" here doesn’t mean necessarily free, it could, but it can also be something you pay for, with some credentials needed to consume it.

In my previous book “Automate or Be Automated” from 2020 I developed a methodology to translate everything you repeat into, Tasks -> SubTasks -> and Actions, and now I should add that, all of this should be "callable" complying with the OpenAPI standard so you can embed the logic of your business or the services you provide into something that can be extended and amplified via the use of the state of art AI models, like GPT4 Turbo or others.

In the OpenSource world, thanks to Hugging Face Clem Delangue 🤗 Thomas Wolf and team, they are providing and easy platform and open tools for a plethora of competing models like Meta Yann LeCun Llama2, Technology Innovation Institute Dr. Ebtesam Almazrouei Falcon180, Mistral AI 8x7B Arthur Mensch Cédric O Charles Gorintin and plenty of others.

With these models something similar could also be achieved, and hopefully someday as easy as what OpenAI is doing with ChatGPT, the creation of agents using for example LangChain made possible to call OpenAPI compliant services, but besides performance, I think we are still lacking, in the real "Open World", of an easy to use, implement and access tool like what Custom ChatGPTs provide today, but stay tuned because it will come.

The challenges that AI is facing at the beginning of 2024 are many, for me these six (+1) are key:

1. The lack of enough AI brains (still)
2. The lack of real long-term memory (short context)
3. The lack or very limited connection to the real world (embodied AI, stay tuned for advances in anthropomorphic robots too)
4. The limited multimodal understanding of the current models (good for some tasks terrible for others, meaning that you have still opportunities here!)
5. The purposefully limited transfer of knowledge to AIs (Read my last book The End Of Knowledge to learn more)
6. And Limited and sometimes hackable Ethics/Morality/Equality of the systems (like adversary prompt injection, poor biased training, and many others)
7. Better OpenAPI so they don't lack description of the semantics or operations they perform, as suggested by Darrel Miller stay tunned for OpenAPI v4 in 2024

Even so I think we are living a great era for humanity where we all can become builders of what its coming next, if and only if we dedicate focus and time to be ready, to try the new tools constantly and better if we create them, because the rapid change in this fascinating field of AI is not going to wait for you.

I always say that "we are in the course to create the next us, either you are building it, or someone will do it for you, and maybe you don’t like it."

David Vivancos

San Lorenzo de El Escorial,

January 11th 2024

www.vivancos.com