OpenAI has announced that artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide users with current information. This new “Browse with Bing” feature is currently available to Plus and Enterprise users, and will expand to all users soon.
“ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct links to sources. It is no longer limited to data before September 2021,” OpenAI posted on X.
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The company further mentioned that since the original launch of browsing in May, it received useful feedback. New updates include following robots.txt and identifying user agents so that sites can control how ChatGPT interacts with them.
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OpenAI believes that browsing is particularly useful for tasks that require up-to-date information, such as when someone needs help with technical research, trying to choose a bike, or planning a vacation.
Browsing is available to Plus and Enterprise users, and will expand to all users soon.
To enable this new feature, you have to enable Browse in your beta features setting.
Step 1: Click on ‘Profile & Settings’.
Step 2: Select ‘Beta features’.
Step 3: Toggle on ‘Browse with Bing’.
Now, you can choose Browse with Bing in the selector under GPT-4.
OpenAI recently announced new voice and image capabilities for ChatGPT. This means that the AI chatbot can now see, hear, and speak. The voice capability is powered by a new text-to-speech model, capable of generating human-like audio from just text and a few seconds of sample speech. Meanwhile, image understanding is powered by multimodal GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. . It’s important to note that the new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT are available for Plus and Enterprise users.
