ChatGPT, the generative AI platform, can now bring data directly from the internet and collect up-to-date information in real-time, its founder OpenAI said on Wednesday, in a prominent landmark for the software.
The responses of ChatGPT, until now, to user questions were based on an extensive database, which did not include information from after August 2021.
In a social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, Open AI said, “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.”
The latest feature would let sites manage how ChatGPT interacts with them, it added.
In June, OpenAI introduced the update for its paying subscribers but discontinued it after users managed to bypass paywalls on internet content.
The feature, dubbed “Browse with Bing”, is also prearranged for paying subscribers of ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise services, but OpenAI said it would soon be public to all users.
OpenAI ally Microsoft already delivers Bing Chat, an integration of GPT-4, the language model operated to design ChatGPT, with its internet search engine, as does Google with its conversational robot Bard.
ChatGPT will deliver direct sources alongside its responses, which will no extended be based on the single database the program’s publisher controls.
