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If one api knows one set of facts, and another api knows another, ad infinitum, are you going to tell people they should remember which api knows which set of facts and query each individually? Why not have a single service that knows of all the various apis for different things, and can query and synthesize answers that extract the relevant information from all of them (with compare/contrast/etc)?

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When you develop a plugin, you provide a description that ChatGPT uses to know when to call that particular service. So you don't need to tell people what they need to use - the model will decide independently based on the plugins you enabled.

That being said - we developed a custom plugin for Qdrant docs, so our users will be able to ask questions about how to do certain things with our database. But I do not believe it should be enabled by default for everybody. A non-technical person doesn't need that many details. The same is for the other services - if you prefer using KAYAK over Expedia, you're free to choose.

Yeah, you need to enable the plugins you want. I'm just saying you can enable all the ones that make sense for you, and you don't have to switch between them.

From the videos I thought it was the plugins the user enabled? That's what your second paragraph sounds like too, but your first seems to suggest it being more automatic, user-doesn't-need-to-worry-about-it?

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