"Revolutionizing Software-Making with ChatGPT and Open-Source Alternatives"

OpenAI's ChatGPT, a conversational chatbot, has released pilot versions of plugins that allow it to roam the internet and connect with other services and data, transforming it into a more capable intelligent agent that can accomplish tasks for users. The plugins extend ChatGPT into travel, shopping, dining, math, and other realms by linking the bot to well-known services. The AI system based on large language models can take instruction directly from non-programmers or programmers using human-language shorthand, making it easier for everyday users to get more done. However, human beings who deeply understand programming's many dimensions will still be needed to invent genuinely new kinds of systems, fix problems that AI can't, and shape and limit ChatGPT and its successors.