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ChatGPT can now browse the internet

by benjamoon on 9/27/23, 8:18 PM with 18 comments

  • by mrb on 9/27/23, 8:38 PM

    I'm a Plus user and it's not working for me.

    When I click on my account name in the lower left corner, then Settings & Beta, I don't see the option "Browse with Bing".

    I start a new chat with GPT-4 and don't see a "Browse with Bing" under GPT-4. I ask the question "What are the latest reviews for a commuter bike?" and get the response "I'm sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information..."

    I tried logging out, clearing cache & data from my browser. It doesn't fix it. Just wondering if anyone else is having the same issue?

    PS: just realized I'm paying $20/month and there is no customer support. No email address. No online messaging with a support team. No phone number.

  • by mark_l_watson on 9/27/23, 11:59 PM

    OK, it works for me, but in 10 minutes of testing against Bing+GPT it performs a little worse. An example that was simply better with Microsoft's Bing+GPT: "search GitHub for a Common Lisp project for performing SPARQL queries"

    I periodically cancel my OpenAI ChatGPt Plus subscription because Microsoft's Bing+ChatGPT is good for research and generating code fragments.

    EDIT: off topic, but I often prefer using GPT-4 via programs written in Python, Common Lisp, or Racket. Then, I can do web search and data/prompt preparation in my own code. For me the difference is: for research and coding help use Bing+GPT, otherwise write my own code.

  • by dredmorbius on 9/29/23, 6:47 PM

    Kagi's FastGPT seems to have had this capability for a while. I'd noted a few days ago that a query I'd submitted turned up one of my own two-week-old HN comments amongst its references.

    That's not "please find a website" but as a citation supporting its own findings. But either way, either the training set is quite recent or FastGPT conducts searches based on the query and/or results it generates. I suspect the latter.

  • by chatmasta on 9/28/23, 12:05 AM

    This is kinda underwhelming tbh, it's really just a plug-in (using the existing plug-in infrastructure) that knows how to search bing and click the results.

  • by nighmi on 9/27/23, 8:21 PM

    Does browse also mean post/save in some way? That would potentially enable an eventual escape scenario, with memory.

  • by deafpolygon on 9/28/23, 8:14 AM

    Skynet is edging closer every day.

  • by benjamoon on 9/27/23, 8:20 PM

    They are moving so fast. This week alone they’ve added web browsing and image as input. Must be a crazy place to work at the moment.

  • by kylecazar on 9/28/23, 2:19 AM

    There goes it's productivity

  • by skilled on 9/27/23, 8:41 PM

    Web browsing was disabled because it could bypass paywalls,

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37678681

    It was out for three months.

    Worth noting that this new version does seem a lot more faster, and doesn’t take as much time to go through pages.

  • by gumballindie on 9/27/23, 8:27 PM

    Google’s done. Time for it to be freed to focus on other things. ChatGPT is the new search engine.