Prior to it, asking ChatGPT questions like “Who won the 2023 March Madness women’s tournament?” wouldn’t yield anything particularly useful - or correct.īut limiting ChatGPT’s search capabilities to Bing seems just short of a user-hostile move. OpenAI says that Browsing is particularly useful for queries relating to current events and other information that “extend beyond original training data.” When Browsing is disabled, ChatGPT’s knowledge cuts off in 2021.īrowsing - which Microsoft and OpenAI previously announced would arrive sometime this year, first on the web - certainly makes ChatGPT a more useful assistant, particularly for research. Browsing is available on both the iOS and Android ChatGPT apps. Today, OpenAI announced that subscribers to ChatGPT Plus, the premium version of the company’s AI-powered chatbot, can use a new feature on the ChatGPT app called Browsing to have ChatGPT search Bing for answers to questions.īrowsing can be enabled by heading to the New Features section of the app settings, selecting “GPT-4” in the model switcher and choosing “Browse with Bing” from the drop-down list.
