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OpenAI Announces ChatGPT’s Connection to the Web at Last
How OpenAI’s latest update is changing the game for chatbots
Very exciting news for all ChatGPT users who, just like me, have always wished that ChatGPT was connected to the internet.
OpenAI announced today that ChatGPT, their popular chatbot, now has the ability to connect to the web thanks to new add-on support. This means that ChatGPT can now access live information from the web, which significantly improves its chat capabilities.
Before this update, ChatGPT was limited to using only the data from its training sets, which stopped in 2021. But now, OpenAI has added add-ons that allow the chatbot to browse the web and interact with specific websites. This could potentially transform the system into a wide-ranging interface for many different services and sites.
In their announcement post, OpenAI stated that this update is like giving other services “eyes and ears” in the form of ChatGPT. They also shared a video showing how someone can use ChatGPT to find a recipe and…
