can chat gbt search the internet the answer is yes but with some nuances okay chat GPT has the ability to browse the internet in real time using a feature called browse with Bing and it basically helps chat GT retrieve up-to-date information about various topics for example if you ask about today's weather or ask about today's news now the key disadvantage is it uses Microsoft Bing it's not Google so the results can be a little bit worse than using Google directly another downside it's not available through the Pi yet so if you are looking to integrate
chat gbt in your product or application it does not have access to the internet you'll need to use another tool for that the good news is this feature is available to both free and paid users and it works automatically behind the scenes so when you ask chat GPT a question it automatically decides should I search the internet to answer this question effectively you don't have to do anything else so there are no extra steps required however you can also instruct chaty BT explicitly by saying search the internet and actually that's something I like to append
to all my prompts remember you can search the internet to retrieve upto-date information so first go ahead and open chat GPT and make sure you have GPT 40 selected this is important because the 01 series o on preview and o on Mini currently as of September 2024 do not have access to the internet what I want to do is illustrate the difference between no internet access and internet access so you can see very clearly the difference in the quality of answers so here in chat GPT I'm going to ask who is Sabrina Romanov Okay click
enter chat GPT responds it seems like Sabrina is a fictional character there is no well-known figure by that name in current Media or history now what I'm going to do is submit the exact same prompt except I'm going to say search the internet now it's searching the web you can see the steps it's taking here right it's search Sabrina ROV at bing.com it found my newsletter sabrina. deev it found my YouTube channel it found my bio which is hosted on my newsletter okay now it replied like I'm no longer a fictional character and it's pulling
most of this by the way just for my blog so this is a really great illustration of the difference between no internet access up here in which case it's using the knowledge it has up to a certain date in time which is called the knowledge cut off I believe for 40 the knowledge cut off was at some point in 2023 well before I started creating content and putting myself out there publicly and now here when I say who is Sabrina ramov searched the internet chat CHT is using browse with Bing hence bing.com it searched my
name and then it found all of these relevant sources analyzed these sources and then answered my question who is Sabrina ramna and now we can illustrate the same thing but with tech news so let's say what is Apple intelligence which is the new announcements from Apple this is a pretty good response of Apple's current integration of AI but what we're really referring to is the recent announcements from Apple about about Apple intelligence in the new suite so here now we said apple is Apple intelligence search the internet it's a suite of AI powered features debuting
with iOS 18 meaning it's not even out yet this system combines generative AI models with personal context cross app functionality for Siri chat GPT directly integrated into the system and full integration is expected to roll out in late 2024 and into 2025 so again compare this answer which search the internet in real time using with Bing okay compared to the previous answer what is Apple intelligence if you knew nothing about Apple intelligence but you kind of heard about people talking about it and you went to chubbt and asked about it you might have gotten an
answer like this and not realized that it's not really the correct answer for your question um this is one reason why I like to add to the end of every prompt remember to search the internet for upto-date information because the quality of the answer is completely different especially if you are referring to recent topics recent news one of my favorite features of searching the internet is that it tells you exactly what the websites are so if you want to learn more you can just go ahead and click the link and it'll take you to the
article where it sourced this information the main thing here to be aware of and stay aware of is this little indication searched X number of sites if you see this that means chat GPT is searching the internet through browse with Bing okay but if you don't see that like up here right that means chat GPT is not searching the Internet it's using its knowledge up to its knowledge cut off for that particular model so you can see how realtime internet access makes a huge difference in the quality of answers you get especially when your queries
your prompts are referring to things that are more recent and Beyond the date of the models knowledge cut off
