探秘ChatGPT全新‘应用商店’内部

内容来源:https://lifehacker.com/tech/chatgpt-new-app-store?utm_medium=RSS
内容总结:
今年初,OpenAI推出了ChatGPT应用生态。值得注意的是,这并非指早已面世两年的ChatGPT独立应用,而是指在ChatGPT对话界面内直接调用的第三方应用程序。用户在日常对话中即可根据场景需求,触发这些内嵌应用功能。
该生态首批合作应用涵盖Booking.com、Canva、Coursera、Expedia、Figma、Spotify、Zillow等知名平台。用户可在对话中直接指令ChatGPT通过Expedia预订巴黎航班、借助Zillow查询房源,或使用Canva制作演示文稿。对OpenAI而言,这种模式大幅拓展了ChatGPT的功能边界——无需自主开发租房工具,集成Zillow即可实现相应服务。随着应用生态持续扩展,用户或将更少切换至外部应用。
值得注意的是,该功能并非传统意义上的“应用商店”。OpenAI近日宣布向开发者开放批量提交通道,所有应用将收录于侧边栏的“应用”目录中。目前该目录处于测试阶段,界面采用轮播广告展示Canva、Zillow等头部应用,下设“精选”“生活方式”“工作效率”三大分类。除常规应用外,Google Drive等连接器服务也被纳入体系。
用户点击任意应用即可查看具体功能,例如通过Slack总结聊天记录、用Asana生成任务进度报告、借Outlook提炼邮件要点等。当前已接入的应用包括Adobe全家桶、Apple Music、GitLab、Notion、Zoom等近百个知名服务,覆盖办公、设计、开发、生活等多领域。
对于高频使用ChatGPT且常切换多应用的用户而言,该集成或能提升效率。开发者可能青睐Hugging Face等AI工具集成,设计师亦可体验Photoshop的AI修图功能。但也有观点认为,当前集成模式略显噱头——多数用户未必需要将Slack、Outlook等日常工具与AI深度绑定。未来若能在工作流整合方面实现突破,或能真正改变用户习惯。
中文翻译:
今年早些时候,OpenAI发布了ChatGPT应用。请注意,这里说的不是ChatGPT应用程序——那款应用已经推出两年多了。而ChatGPT应用则是在ChatGPT内部运行的程序。你可以在任何与ChatGPT的对话中使用它们——事实上,这些应用甚至会根据对话情境自动出现。
这些应用并非全由OpenAI自行开发;实际上,你会在这里发现许多你可能正在使用的应用程序。该功能上线时首批入驻的应用包括Booking.com、Canva、Coursera、Figma、Expedia、Spotify和Zillow等大家耳熟能详的主流应用。
在与ChatGPT对话时,你可以让助手通过Expedia帮你预订飞往巴黎的航班,通过Zillow查找特定房源,或是借助Canva制作演示文稿幻灯片。从OpenAI的角度来看,这为ChatGPT增添了大量其自身无法提供的功能。OpenAI无需在ChatGPT内开发找房工具,直接接入Zillow即可。我同样注意到,随着更多应用融入ChatGPT,用户离开ChatGPT转向其他应用的需求会越来越低——不过这并非我需要操心的事。
ChatGPT的"应用商店"并非真正意义上的商店
谈到更多应用,随着开发者为其程序开发兼容ChatGPT的扩展功能,该公司计划逐步扩充这些应用。这正是昨日消息的一部分:OpenAI现已允许开发者批量提交应用到ChatGPT。更重要的是,这些应用将汇集在"应用目录"中,尽管许多网友更倾向于称其为应用商店。(不过无需付费,因此应用目录或许是更贴切的称呼。)你可以在ChatGPT侧边栏找到这个名为"应用"的新目录。
根据ChatGPT中该标题旁的标识,"应用"功能目前处于测试阶段。在这里,你会看到轮播展示着Canva和Zillow等主流服务的广告,下方则是成排可供选择的应用。目前应用分为"精选"、"生活"和"效率"三类,尚无显示全部应用的选项。(但所有应用似乎完全分布在生活与效率两类中。)现有选项已相当丰富:有些如Photoshop和Apple Music本周备受关注,有些则如Asana、Uber和Target悄然上线。获得应用待遇的不仅是Zillow或Spotify这类传统应用,OpenAI也将Google Drive等"连接器"服务视为"应用"。
点击目录中任意应用即可了解其功能。例如Slack说明可查找聊天记录以总结对话脉络、生成摘要并构思回复;Asana可生成任务进度报告与状态更新;Outlook则称能根据邮件和日历事件创建"谈话要点"并生成后续跟进。虽然每个应用标题下有简要说明,但需要点进具体服务才能了解完整功能。
以下是我目前看到的应用列表。请注意这可能不是完整清单,尤其考虑到OpenAI仍在持续添加新应用:
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Express
Adobe Photoshop
Agentforce Sales
Aha!
Airtable
AllTrails
Amplitude
Apple Music
Asana
Atlassian Rovo
Azure Boards
Basecamp
Booking.com
Box
Canva
Clay
Cloudinary
Conductor
Coursera
Daloopa
DoorDash
Dropbox
Egnyte
Expedia
Figma
GitLab Issues
Google Drive
Help Scout
Hex
HighLevel
Hugging Face
Instacart
Intuit Credit Karma
Intuit Mailchimp
Intuit TurboTax
Khan Academy
Klaviyo
Linear
Lovable
LSEG
Monday.com
Morningstar
Netlify
Notion
OpenTable
Outlook日历
Outlook邮件
Peloton
Pipedrive
PitchBook
Ramp
Replit
SharePoint
Slack
Spotify
Stripe
Target
Teams
Teamwork.com
TheFork
Thumbtack
Tripadvisor
Uber
Uber Eats
Vercel
Zillow
Zoho
Zoho Desk
Zoom
如果你是ChatGPT的深度用户,且经常在它与列表中应用间切换,这个功能或许有些用处。程序员可能觉得集成Hugging Face和Lovable很有帮助,Photoshop用户或许会善用集成提供的AI图像编辑工具。但我仍觉得这更像营销噱头:我不需要将Slack接入ChatGPT来生成后续跟进——我自己完全能回复邮件并管理日程,因此没必要将Outlook或其他邮件客户端接入这个助手。或许未来的更新会说服我将生成式AI融入工作生活的方方面面,但至少目前,我仍持保留态度。
英文来源:
Earlier this year, OpenAI announced ChatGPT apps. Not the ChatGPT app, mind you: That's been out for more than a couple years now. ChatGPT apps, on the other hand, are programs that work within ChatGPT. You can access them in any given conversation with ChatGPT—in fact, they may appear based on the context of the conversation.
These aren't necessarily apps that OpenAI builds itself, either; rather, you'll find options here based on apps you may use yourself. The initial batch of apps included with the feature's rollout included Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow—big apps you've likely used before.
While in a conversation with ChatGPT, you could ask the bot to help you book a flight to Paris via Expedia, find a particular listing through Zillow, or create a slide for a presentation with Canva. From OpenAI's perspective, this adds a host of additional functionality to ChatGPT the company couldn't offer itself. OpenAI doesn't need to build an apartment-hunting tool into ChatGPT; it can just pull in Zillow. It also doesn't escape me that the more apps that OpenAI folds into ChatGPT, the less likely it is you'll need to leave ChatGPT to do something in another app—but that's none of my business.
ChatGPT's "app store" isn't really a store
Speaking of more apps, the company plans to expand these apps overtime, as developers create ChatGPT-compatible extensions for their programs. That was part of yesterday's news: OpenAI is now letting developers submit apps to ChatGPT en masse. What's more, these apps will be hosted in an "app directory," though many online are taking to calling it an app store. (There's no payment necessary, however, so app directory might really be a more apt description.) You'll find this new app directory in the sidebar of ChatGPT, appropriately called "Apps."
Apps is apparently in beta, according to a label affixed to its title in ChatGPT. Here, you'll find a rotating slide featuring an ad for some of the service's biggest apps, like Canva and Zillow, and, below it, rows of apps to choose from. Right now, the apps are sorted into "Featured," "Lifestyle," and "Productivity," with no option that includes all the apps. (But they seem to be entirely split across Lifestyle and Productivity.) There are a lot of options here already. Some made headlines this week, like Photoshop and Apple Music, while others arrived more quietly, like Asana, Uber, and Target. It's not just traditional apps like Zillow or Spotify that are getting the app treatment here, either. OpenAI is also considering "connector" services, like Google Drive, as "apps."
You can click on any app in the directory to see what you can do with it. Slack, for example, says you can look up your chats and messages to summarize threads, generate recaps, and come up with responses. You can check on your Asana tasks to generate progress reports and status updates. Outlook says you can create "talking points" and generate follow-ups from your emails and calendar events. While there's a brief summary underneath each title, you'll need to click through to each service to see the full picture of what it actually offers.
Here are the apps I'm seeing at this time. Just note this might not be a complete list, especially as OpenAI continues to add more apps to the service:
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Express
Adobe Photoshop
Agentforce Sales
Aha!
Airtable
AllTrails
Amplitude
Apple Music
Asana
Atlassian Rovo
Azure Boards
Basecamp
Booking.com
Box
Canva
Clay
Cloudinary
Conductor
Coursera
Daloopa
DoorDash
Dropbox
Egnyte
Expedia
Figma
GitLab Issues
Google Drive
Help Scout
Hex
HighLevel
Hugging Face
Instacart
Intuit Credit Karma
Intuit Mailchimp
Intuit TurboTax
Khan Academy
Klaviyo
Linear
Lovable
LSEG
Monday.com
Morningstar
Netlify
Notion
OpenTable
Outlook Calendar
Outlook Email
Peloton
Pipedrive
PitchBook
Ramp
Replit
SharePoint
Slack
Spotify
Stripe
Target
Teams
Teamwork.com
TheFork
Thumbtack
Tripadvisor
Uber
Uber Eats
Vercel
Zillow
Zoho
Zoho Desk
Zoom
If you're an avid ChatGPT user and frequently switch between it and any of the apps on this list, there might be some utility here. Maybe coders will find the integration with Hugging Face and Lovable to be beneficial, while Photoshop users might take advantage of the AI image editing tools this integration provides. But I'm still left feeling like this is more gimmick than anything else: I don't need to connect my Slack to ChatGPT to generate follow-ups for me: I'm perfectly capable of responding to emails myself, and managing my own calendar, so no need to connect Outlook or another email client to the bot. Maybe a future update will sell me on connecting generative AI to all aspects of my work and personal life, but so far, I'm still not convinced.