I agree that this has taken longer than expected. You can @mention GPTs in the GPT store (though I think you may need to be on a paid plan to do that). So you could say "find me flights from Paris to Capetown using @kayak" ... so you could see how flight booking could happen using the GPT layer. OpenAI haven't invested a lot of effort there though recently.
I do think it'll come but it may come in a way that feels very "non-open": with essentially a platform that has preconfigured providers for things. So you need to be a partner to be prioritized. This will be a new potential distribution hub on the web that people will have to work their way into.
You mentioning a "potential distribution hub" makes me think this could be a great opportunity for OpenAI. I wonder why they haven't been exploring this.
I couldn't agree more! We're not there yet, but maybe we will get there soon? I just spent the last 3 days thinking about this exact same problem. I've started to work on a framework designed to facilitate seamless interaction between AI agents and web services. By allowing services to register their intents and actions, and enabling AI agents to discover and execute these intents, this API acts as a powerful intermediary layer. It's still early days and I'm not yet sure if it should be just an open source protocol or an actual service.
But what I find amazing is that for some reason the algorithmic gods decided that I'm not alone in thinking that there is a missing link between AI and APIs 🙌
The idea of an intermediary layer that translates intents into API "actions" sounds interesting. Please do share more about your work whenever you feel it's the right time.
I agree that this has taken longer than expected. You can @mention GPTs in the GPT store (though I think you may need to be on a paid plan to do that). So you could say "find me flights from Paris to Capetown using @kayak" ... so you could see how flight booking could happen using the GPT layer. OpenAI haven't invested a lot of effort there though recently.
I do think it'll come but it may come in a way that feels very "non-open": with essentially a platform that has preconfigured providers for things. So you need to be a partner to be prioritized. This will be a new potential distribution hub on the web that people will have to work their way into.
You mentioning a "potential distribution hub" makes me think this could be a great opportunity for OpenAI. I wonder why they haven't been exploring this.
I couldn't agree more! We're not there yet, but maybe we will get there soon? I just spent the last 3 days thinking about this exact same problem. I've started to work on a framework designed to facilitate seamless interaction between AI agents and web services. By allowing services to register their intents and actions, and enabling AI agents to discover and execute these intents, this API acts as a powerful intermediary layer. It's still early days and I'm not yet sure if it should be just an open source protocol or an actual service.
But what I find amazing is that for some reason the algorithmic gods decided that I'm not alone in thinking that there is a missing link between AI and APIs 🙌
The idea of an intermediary layer that translates intents into API "actions" sounds interesting. Please do share more about your work whenever you feel it's the right time.