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Re: ChatGPT can now browse the internet

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Post by gumballindie »

benjamoon wrote: post #6
gumballindie wrote: post #5

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

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. T…

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.

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Post by labrador »

mrb wrote: post #8

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 ou…

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.

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Post by mark_l_watson »

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.

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Post by mrb »

labrador wrote: post #12
mrb wrote: post #8

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 ou…

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.

I'm on Chrome. But-hey!-it just started working. I think OpenAI had a slow rollout.

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Post by dredmorbius »

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.

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Post by freediver »

dredmorbius wrote: post #19

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 latt…

Correct, FastGPT is powered by Kagi search underneath.
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