Now you can browse the internet with ChatGPT
OpenAI announced a major update to ChatGPT this week. Rather than being limited to pre-September 2021 data, as it was previously trained on, the chatbot can now browse the internet and provide up-to-date information on user inquiries. A feature called “Browse with Bing” notifies users when they are searching for information from the web and provides citation links along with their answers.
Browsing is currently available to Plus and Enterprise users and will be “expanded to all users soon,” according to OpenAI, but no timeline for broader rollout has been given.To enable this feature, the user must select in his GPT-4 selector[Bing で参照]must be selected.
The company advised that the latest browsing features will allow websites to control how they interact with ChatGPT. Some news sites have chosen to block OpenAI's web crawler tools due to copyright infringement and unfair web scraping that can lead to lack of compensation or credits. So, although ChatGPT is connected to the web, you won't be able to use news sites such as: new york times, washington post, guardianReuters, and CNN.
ChatGPT with internet access is a powerful tool, but it's not the first chatbot to access real-time information. Microsoft's Bing Chat on Windows and Edge browsers can already return live information from the web, as can Google's Bard on Chrome and other browsers. And now, Meta has announced that he will also use Bing to power his real-time web results with Meta AI Assistant, which will be added to WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.
OpenAI also revealed that ChatGPT will soon be able to handle voice commands and image-based queries. Android and iOS users who opt in will be able to have voice conversations with ChatGPT. Conversations are powered by a new text-to-speech model that can generate “human-like speech from just text and a few seconds of sample audio.” A new image recognition feature will allow users to ask his ChatGPT questions about images. For example, you can show them pictures of what's in your fridge and ask them to help you plan meals based on what's in your fridge. Audio and image features will also initially be available only to Plus and Enterprise users ahead of a broader rollout.
Sources: BBC, Mashable, The Verge, Engadget
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