ChatGPT Can Access the Web for Information Retrieval
OpenAI announced on Wednesday that its groundbreaking software, ChatGPT, has achieved a significant milestone by gaining the ability to directly access the internet and collect current information in real-time.
Until now, ChatGPT’s responses to user queries were based on a large database that did not contain data beyond August 2021.
“ChatGPT can now browse the Internet to provide you with timely and authoritative information and direct links to sources,” OpenAI said on X, formerly Twitter. “It will no longer be limited to data before September 2021.”
It also said the latest feature would allow sites to control how ChatGPT interacts with them.
OpenAI released the update to its paying subscribers in June, but suspended it after users managed to bypass paywalls for Internet content.
The feature, called “Browse with Bing,” is also reserved for paying subscribers to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise services, but OpenAI said it will soon be available to all users.
OpenAI partner Microsoft already offers Bing Chat with its Internet search engine, integration of GPT-4, the language model used to develop ChatGPT, as does Google with its chatbot Bard.
ChatGPT provides direct sources along with its responses, which are no longer based on a single database controlled by the program publisher.
