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ChatGPT App Can Now Search the Web Via Bing (techcrunch.com) 14

Posted by BeauHD

on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @05:30PM from the stay-up-to-date dept.
If you're a ChatGPT Plus subscriber, you can now use a new feature on the ChatGPT app called Browsing to have ChatGPT search Bing for answers to questions. TechCrunch reports: Browsing can be enabled by heading to the New Features section of the app settings, selecting "GPT-4" in the model switcher and choosing "Browse with Bing" from the drop-down list. Browsing is available on both the iOS and Android ChatGPT apps. OpenAI says that Browsing is particularly useful for queries relating to current events and other information that "extend[s] beyond [ChatGPT's] original training data." When Browsing is disabled, ChatGPT's knowledge cuts off in 2021.

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    If it's going to lie you, make stuff up, and spout off complete nonsense, you might as well have it also get information from Bing.

  • I hate to say it but Bing AI was the best LLM AI for (re)search the last 6 weeks. You had to load Edge to use it but it was mostly worth it.

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      Yes, and Bing AI doesn't just add the contents of pages from the web search in its composed replies, either - it also specifically cites and links to the source where it found each fact mentioned in its reply. I wonder if this ChatGPT extension does that? Letting some information maybe or maybe not percolate through the model to influence the response in some manner is not the same as attributing each fact to a source.

  • Iâ(TM)ve always wondered what happens as LLM output becomes a larger portion of the web and the models have to eat their own dogfood.

    ChatGPT can now search Bing and summarize the top five ChatGPT-authored SEO-crammed webpages for answers, so I guess weâ(TM)ll know soon.

  • Doesn't Bing use the same LLM?
  • The summary mentions this feature on both iOS and Android apps. I just checked, and it can also be enabled in the web version under "Settings", "Beta Features". Kind of interesting. I asked a question concerning current events. The GPT-4 model did a web search, clicked on a link, read the content, and provided a summary.

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      I don't understand because I asked it to summarize an article just released this month and it did it for me. I just have a free account and have never messed with the settings. I gave it the URL in the prompt and it did a fabulous job of summarizing the article. Either it was a really good guess or it can always browse the web.
  • Can ChatGPT be set to use Firefox, Chrome etc ?

  • ...uck decided to give Skynet internet access?

  • If ChatGPT uses Bing to find meaningful answers, it's gonna keep hallucinating and making a lot of stuff up: even real humans have difficulty finding anything on Bing.


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