ChatGPT Productivity Plugins – Pros and Cons

The WebPilot plugin for ChatGPT is a tool that allows the AI model to interact with the internet in a read-only manner. This means that it can pull information from the web in real time, which is particularly useful for retrieving up-to-date information that was not available at the time of the AI’s last training cut-off. It’s important to note that the AI does not interact with the web in the same way as a human does. Instead, it retrieves the raw HTML content of the page and processes it to extract the requested information. It’s a read-only tool, meaning it can’t perform actions like submitting forms on web pages or interacting with dynamic content.

How does it work

• The user provides a URL or a set of URLs
• The user can optionally make requesters for specific actions to be performed with the content from the URL. These requests can include tasks like extracting specific information, rewriting the content, summarizing it or translating to foreign languages. Example: “Please write a 2 paragraphs newsletter to my customers based on these articles: https://… and https://…“. Check out the result here.
• The WebPilot plugin visits the web page(s) and retrieves the content.
• The AI then processes this content according to the user’s request, if any, and provides the output.

Conclusion

The WebPilot plugin is a powerful tool that greatly expands the capabilities of the AI, allowing it to provide more accurate and timely information to users. It works perfectly as a simple web processing function, but there is another ChatGPT plugin that can also work from YouTube transcripts or also functions as a search engine, eg. VoxScript.

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