ChatGPT gains access to the Internet

The AI ​​is now allowed to surf – this has advantages and disadvantages (Photo by Growtika on Unsplash)

OpenAI, the American company behind ChatGPT, has announced that it will bring ChatGPT back online. The AI ​​has so far only been fed data up to 2021. What does this mean for users?

All new changes to ChatGPT at a glance

ChatGPT is now surfing: The developers wrote on Twitter that ChatGPT now has access to the Internet and you can browse with the help of ChatGPT. The AI ​​chatbot now also provides links to the sources in its answers.

However, there is a small catch. Access to this new feature called “Browse with Bing” is currently only limited to the paid ChatGPT upgrade Plus and Enterprise.

Since the developers are supported by Microsoft, the use of Bing is not surprising. This is the search engine from Gates. Microsoft’s AI bot has been supporting internet browsing for a long time.

However, the ChatGPT developers promise that this feature will soon be available to all users.

A few days ago, OpenAI also announced that it would soon be possible to interact with the AI ​​using voice control.

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What’s so special about it?

It was also possible to ask ChatGPT about a wide variety of topics beforehand. However, his knowledge was limited to the period up to September 2021 and no links were provided in answers.

For example, if you now ask ChatGPT about news from the last few weeks, it no longer responds with the message that it cannot provide real-time information.

However, this concept is not entirely new. Google Bard also shows links to queries and can play back the answer via voice output.

Nevertheless, it is important that this step is also taken at ChatGPT.

What is the danger of real-time data?

The Internet is like the real world. It is a web of constantly changing information. It builds new connections and constantly gets new content. (Symbolic image; photo by NASA on Unsplash)

With a closed data set that an AI can access, it is much easier to filter out malicious answers from a source control perspective. Here the developers can search very carefully for bad content and then exclude it more consistently. The quality of the data set is correspondingly high.

Accessing a constantly changing network with thousands of new contents per second therefore entails a certain risk. When asked, an incorrect or risky answer is more likely to be given. The potential for abuse increases.

It is therefore important that sources are now provided in addition to the answers. The user can look at them and decide for themselves how valuable the information received is based on the original source.

If you don’t know exactly how ChatGPT works, you can read about it in this article. You can also read here how AI affects different professions.

What do you think? Is it an important and correct step to know exactly where the AI ​​is actually looking in order to be able to evaluate the source? What dangers does searching the living web bring with it? Do you think ChatGPT is now easier to manipulate? Or do you think that the current ChatGPT is too limited? Feel free to write us your opinion in the comments.