OpenAI posted on X on Wednesday that its chatbot can now connect to the internet in real time and give straight links to its sources. Users who pay for ChatGPT Plus or Enterprise will be able to use the new features.
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. pic.twitter.com/pyj8a9HWkB
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) September 27, 2023
This means that for paying users, ChatGPT won’t be limited to information from before 2021. This will open the doors to new features and make the chatbot more reliable.
The Bing web browser from Microsoft lets ChatGPT connect to the internet. This relationship was first talked about at Microsoft Build in May, and then it was rolled out to ChatGPT Plus users. But after a couple of months, OpenAI got rid of it because people were using it to get around paywalls.
OpenAI said that since the first rollout in May, users have given the company useful feedback that has been added to the new update. This includes “following robots.txt” and identifying user agents to regulate ChatGPT’s interaction with sites
ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users only need to choose “Browse with Bing” from the drop-down menu under GPT-4 to use the function.
OpenAI says that soon, all users will be able to use this function. This is good news for all the other users who can’t wait to use it. Until then, Bing Chat is a good option because it works with GPT-4, has access to the internet, gives sources, and is free.
Just a few days ago, OpenAI said that ChatGPT could “see, hear, and speak,” which meant that it could take image and voice prompts and give voice prompts back.
READ: OpenAI’s ChatGPT Will Soon Gain the Ability to See, Hear, and Speak
The new search and response tools will only be available to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users in the next two weeks.