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ChatGPT can now browse the internet

37 points by benjamoon 3y ago

benjamoon 3y ago
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.
- lawxls 3y ago
  Am I missing something? Hasn't web browsing been there for a while now?
  - benjamoon 3y ago
    It launched a few months ago, but was then taking offline. This seems to be a new version.
nighmi 3y ago
Does browse also mean post/save in some way? That would potentially enable an eventual escape scenario, with memory.
- benjamoon 3y ago
  I haven’t got it to anything that appears to be posting a form or similar. The content has to be indexable on bing by the looks of things. The second it can submit forms the internet is doomed.
gumballindie 3y ago
Google’s done. Time for it to be freed to focus on other things. ChatGPT is the new search engine.
- benjamoon 3y ago
  I’ve thought this for months now, since GPT has become a go to tool I use it all the time for questions that Google has no chance of answering. E.g I’ve just played G - C - Am on my piano. What’s a good next chord? It understand music theory and gives about 5 optional chords and describes what each one may do for the song (add suspense, resolve something, lighten it, etc). Google feels really last gen very quickly. They’re basically AltaVista at this point. And ChatGPT is what AskJeeves claimed to be!
  - gumballindie 3y ago
    As much as I dislike openai, you are right: google is altavista. Not just because chatgpt is advanced but because google is steadily regressing. Their search is appaling - both engine, inbox and google drive. Simply appaling. It's taking the route of IBM - turning focused grouped to death.
- deleted 3y ago
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mrb 3y ago
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.
- labrador 3y ago
  Are you on Firefox? It worked in Edge and Chrome but not Firefox, my main browser. I posted about it on X to OpenAI and then it started working. They may have fixed it or it was was some other problem.
  - mrb 3y ago
    I'm on Chrome. But-hey!-it just started working. I think OpenAI had a slow rollout.
skilled 3y ago
Web browsing was disabled because it could bypass paywalls, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37678681 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.
mark_l_watson 3y ago
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.
chatmasta 3y ago
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.
kylecazar 3y ago
There goes it's productivity
deafpolygon 3y ago
Skynet is edging closer every day.
dredmorbius 3y ago
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.
- freediver 3y ago
  Correct, FastGPT is powered by Kagi search underneath.

37 points by benjamoon 3y ago

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.

lawxls 3y ago
Am I missing something? Hasn't web browsing been there for a while now?
- benjamoon 3y ago
  It launched a few months ago, but was then taking offline. This seems to be a new version.

nighmi 3y ago

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

benjamoon 3y ago
I haven’t got it to anything that appears to be posting a form or similar. The content has to be indexable on bing by the looks of things. The second it can submit forms the internet is doomed.

gumballindie 3y ago

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

benjamoon 3y ago
I’ve thought this for months now, since GPT has become a go to tool I use it all the time for questions that Google has no chance of answering. E.g I’ve just played G - C - Am on my piano. What’s a good next chord? It understand music theory and gives about 5 optional chords and describes what each one may do for the song (add suspense, resolve something, lighten it, etc). Google feels really last gen very quickly. They’re basically AltaVista at this point. And ChatGPT is what AskJeeves claimed to be!
- gumballindie 3y ago
  As much as I dislike openai, you are right: google is altavista. Not just because chatgpt is advanced but because google is steadily regressing. Their search is appaling - both engine, inbox and google drive. Simply appaling. It's taking the route of IBM - turning focused grouped to death.
deleted 3y ago
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mrb 3y ago

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.

labrador 3y ago
Are you on Firefox? It worked in Edge and Chrome but not Firefox, my main browser. I posted about it on X to OpenAI and then it started working. They may have fixed it or it was was some other problem.
- mrb 3y ago
  I'm on Chrome. But-hey!-it just started working. I think OpenAI had a slow rollout.

skilled 3y ago

Web browsing was disabled because it could bypass paywalls, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37678681 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.

mark_l_watson 3y ago

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.

chatmasta 3y ago

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.

kylecazar 3y ago

There goes it's productivity

deafpolygon 3y ago

Skynet is edging closer every day.

dredmorbius 3y ago

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.

freediver 3y ago
Correct, FastGPT is powered by Kagi search underneath.