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OpenAI launched ChatGPT Apps earlier this week.
You can connect to apps like Spotify and Canva within the chatbot.
I put it to the test, and the results were mixed.
Imagine if you could mesh ChatGPT's conversational capabilities with your favorite apps to create a more intuitive experience. With ChatGPT Apps, that future isn't far-fetched.
At its largest developer conference yet, OpenAI DevDay, the company launched ChatGPT Apps, which, as the name implies, lets users access certain apps directly within the ChatGPT interface. At launch, these apps include Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Zillow, and Spotify, with 11 additional partners and developer submissions joining later in the year.
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This experience is just a glimpse of how ChatGPT might function in the near future, which Nick Turley, head of ChatGPT, told me may be more like an operating system. To see if ChatGPT Apps is really the future of ChatGPT (and whether or not that would be a good thing), I put some of the apps to the test.
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