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On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a new feature in ChatGPT that allows users to pull custom personalities called “GPTs” into any ChatGPT conversation with the @ symbol. It allows a level of quasi-teamwork within ChatGPT among expert roles that was previously impractical, making collaborating with a team of AI agents within OpenAI’s platform one step closer to reality.
“You can now bring GPTs into any conversation in ChatGPT – simply type @ and select the GPT,” wrote OpenAI on the social media network X. “This allows you to add relevant GPTs with the full context of the conversation.”
OpenAI introduced GPTs in November as a way to create custom personalities or roles for ChatGPT to play. For example, users can build their own GPTs to focus on certain topics or certain skills. Paid ChatGPT subscribers can also freely download a host of GPTs developed by other ChatGPT users through the GPT Store.
Previously, if you wanted to share information between GPT profiles, you had to copy the text, select a new chat with the GPT, paste it, and explain the context of what the information means or what you want to do with it. Now, ChatGPT users can stay in the default ChatGPT window and bring in GPTs as needed without losing the history of the conversation.
For example, we created a “Wellness Guide” GPT that is crafted as an expert in human health conditions (of course, this being ChatGPT, always consult a human doctor if you’re having medical problems), and we created a “Canine Health Advisor” for dog-related health questions.
We started in a default ChatGPT chat, hit the @ symbol, then typed the first few letters of “Wellness” and selected it from a list. It filled out the rest. We asked a question about food poisoning in humans, and then we switched to the canine advisor in the same way with an @ symbol and asked about the dog.
have been done outside of OpenAI in the past (using API access), but OpenAI has so far resisted a more agentic model for ChatGPT. As we’ve seen (first with GPTs and now with this), OpenAI seems to be slowly angling toward that goal itself, but only time will tell if or when we see true agentic teamwork in a shipping service.
