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From what I'm reading, there is no fundamental difference between an AI Action executed via the Zapier Plugin and a Zapier AI Action executed by a custom GPT.
Currently, the main difference is the purpose for / context in which you use them:
Zapier Plugin brings all of Zapier's actions into every ChatGPT conversation where it is enabled, letting ChatGPT execute the actions at will based on what you're asking it to do at the time.
Custom GPTs let you define a specific set of Zapier AI Actions that are available and combine them with any other actions from non-Zapier third parties. So if I'm e.g. buiding a Weather Alert GPT, my GPT might use a third-party API from OpenWeatherMap to pull the information about the weather forecast, then use a Zapier AI Action to send a message with the weather details to my email, Slack, etc.
But I can't rule out that in the future OpenAI will make plugins obsolete altogether. There's already speculation that plugins weren't a major success and were clunky to build, and that GPTs are an attempt to better version of them. From what I understand, plugin makers can already now convert their existing plugin to a GPT. So maybe a few months down the line we'll see OpenAI have a GPT store and phase plugins out.
Great post! One question: what would you say the difference is between Zapier's own ChatGPT plugin (https://zapier.com/blog/announcing-zapier-chatgpt-plugin/) and their new AI actions? Based on their doc page, equipping it looks much more involved than the plugin:https://actions.zapier.com/docs/platform/gpt
From what I'm reading, there is no fundamental difference between an AI Action executed via the Zapier Plugin and a Zapier AI Action executed by a custom GPT.
Currently, the main difference is the purpose for / context in which you use them:
Zapier Plugin brings all of Zapier's actions into every ChatGPT conversation where it is enabled, letting ChatGPT execute the actions at will based on what you're asking it to do at the time.
Custom GPTs let you define a specific set of Zapier AI Actions that are available and combine them with any other actions from non-Zapier third parties. So if I'm e.g. buiding a Weather Alert GPT, my GPT might use a third-party API from OpenWeatherMap to pull the information about the weather forecast, then use a Zapier AI Action to send a message with the weather details to my email, Slack, etc.
But I can't rule out that in the future OpenAI will make plugins obsolete altogether. There's already speculation that plugins weren't a major success and were clunky to build, and that GPTs are an attempt to better version of them. From what I understand, plugin makers can already now convert their existing plugin to a GPT. So maybe a few months down the line we'll see OpenAI have a GPT store and phase plugins out.
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Someone should turn that into a cartoon.
Too bad I don't know anybody like that.