ChatGPT’s limited knowledge base is one of its biggest issues. Depending on which model you use, ChatGPT’s knowledge base has a cut-off date of September 2021 (for GPT-3.5) or January 2022 (for GPT-4). This means ChatGPT can’t accurately handle requests related to events that occurred after that time.
Now, OpenAI is solving this problem by updating ChatGPT to use the internet to provide up-to-date responses to your queries. Here’s what you need to know about this (re)addition to ChatGPT.
ChatGPT Can Now Use Bing to Access the Internet
One of the major selling points of AI chatbots like Bard and Bing AI is that they can access the internet to retrieve up-to-date information. ChatGPT, on the other hand, couldn’t do that. That changed briefly after OpenAI rolled out browsing capabilities in May 2022, but the feature was subsequently taken offline because of abuse. One such abuse saw ChatGPT users use the browsing feature to bypass paywalls on websites to access news articles for free.