Galactica vs ChatGPT Plugins

Galactica is an advanced large language model specifically designed to handle the complexities of scientific knowledge. Its ability to store, combine, and reason about vast amounts of scientific information makes it an invaluable resource to overcome the challenges of information overload in the science community. Developed by a team led by Ross Taylor, Marcin Kardas, and several other contributors, Galactica stands out with its superior performance on a variety of scientific tasks.

By outperforming existing models such as GPT-3 on technical knowledge probes and Chinchilla on mathematical MMLU, Galactica has shown potential to serve as a potent new interface for scientific exploration and discovery. Notably, Galactica has achieved state-of-the-art results on downstream tasks such as PubMedQA and MedMCQA dev, substantiating its value addition to the scientific community. The model is open-sourced, encouraging broad usage and contribution among researchers and institutions globally.

OpenAI follows an iterative deployment philosophy, and as part of this approach, it is gradually releasing plugins for ChatGPT. The purpose of this gradual release is to study the real-world use of the plugins, assess their impact, and identify any safety and alignment challenges that may arise. Getting these aspects right is essential for OpenAI to achieve its mission.

Since the launch of ChatGPT, users have expressed interest in having access to plugins, and many developers are experimenting with similar ideas. OpenAI is initially rolling out plugins to a small set of users and plans to gradually increase access as it learns more. After an alpha period, API users who want to integrate plugins into their products will also have access. OpenAI is excited to build a community that will help shape the future of the human-AI interaction paradigm.

Developers who have been invited off the waitlist can use OpenAI's documentation to build a plugin for ChatGPT. Once the plugin is created, it is listed in the prompt shown to the language model, along with documentation that instructs the model on how to use each one. The first set of plugins has been created by Expedia, FiscalNote, Instacart, KAYAK, Klarna, Milo, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Speak, Wolfram, and Zapier.