ChatGPT Can Browse Now!
A moment Google’s Bard would’ve feared as ChatGPT formally starts browsing the internet
Ask users of generative AI chatbots and many would give a thumbs-up to Google’s Bard because of its ability to crawl pages indexed by the search engine. Now OpenAI’s ChatGPT has announced the formal launch of its internet-browsing feature, having first revealed its presence in beta some three weeks ago.
Of course, the beta version arrived several months after OpenAI had made it known that their Gen AI chatbot would soon provide current information and not throw up its hands or shrug its shoulders when asked for stuff that happened after 2021. However, during this interregnum, Google managed to get its Bard up-to-date via its search capabilities.
Readers would be aware that ChatGPT had historical data only as far as September of 2021, which made it useless while seeking inputs on anything that occurred after that month. However, OpenAI began adding the internet to ChatGPT in March. Of course, there was a risk as live data couldn’t be curated as static training datasets can be.
What changes now for ChatGPT?
OpenAI release notes revealed that browsing, which was re-launched a few weeks ago, is moving out of Beta and that Plus and Enterprise users wouldn’t need to switch the beta toggle between Browse with Bing and GPT4 anymore to browse. It also announced the integration of DALL-E3 with ChatGPT allowing the latter to respond to requests with images.
From a simple sentence to a detailed paragraph, ask ChatGPT what you want to see and it will translate your ideas into exceptionally accurate images, the announcement said while adding that to use DALL·E 3 on both web and mobile, one needs to choose DALL·E 3 in the selector under GPT-4. The message limit may vary based on capacity.
What took it so long to introduce browsing?
That the company took bags of time to introduce browsing features could be a result of fears that opening up ChatGPT to the internet could potentially open the doors for bad actors who could abuse the algorithms. It was in May that OpenAI rolled out web search via Bing, owned by Microsoft, which is also a major investor in OpenAI.
The feature was extended to the ChatGPT mobile app a month later before being hurriedly pulled off when OpenAI geeks discovered that the gen AI chatbot could actually bore through paywalls and display content available out there. The company rolled out browsing features with Bing last month after incorporating parameters laid out by content owners and creators.
For the moment, ChatGPT adheres to instructions laid out in a Robots.txt file by the content owner or the website owner as is the case with regular web crawlers. With Browse with Bing officially available to all Plus and Enterprise subscribers, it was only a matter of time that OpenAI took the search feature itself off the beta test mode.
How does the DALL-E3 integration change ChatGPT?
Coming to the DALL-E3 integration, users would not need to worry too much about prompt engineering when asking the software to create an image. ChatGPT could possibly achieve much more with much less text prompts to provide us with an image output that is substantially closer to what we desire.
What’s more, since the integration, users can actually get their images right on the window that they use for text-based queries. No need to switch windows or switch apps anymore. DALL-E3 is available both on the web and mobile and users can easily activate the same by selecting DALL-E3 (Beta) from the GPT4 tab inside ChatGPT.
Recent announcements prove that the Generative AI is indeed moving beyond text-based results as ChatGPT already received an audio boost some weeks ago. Last month, OpenAI gave it listening and speaking skills where users could have a verbal chat with the chatbot.
