In the early hours of September 28, ChatGPT's web browsing function was updated, allowing users to get the information they need in more real time. After the update, users can select "Bing" in the selector of GPT4 to enable ChatGPT's browsing function. ChatGPT understands the user's conversation needs and searches for relevant content in real time to make an answer. Previously, ChatGPT was connected through open plugins, but this update is implemented through the browser's own features.
On March 23, 2023, one week after the release of GPT 4, ChatGPT introduced plug-in features, including web browser plugins. Since then, OpenAl has announced that it will gradually open Bing-based browsing to members, but due to pressure on content copyright and privacy, the feature was temporarily closed in early July.
On September 28, OpenAI officially announced the reopening of networking functions for both individual and corporate members. Before ChatGPT re-enabled networking, its training data was as of the end of September 2021, so it may not be enough to answer some time-sensitive questions. Currently, ChatGPT is able to combine the latest web content for understanding and reasoning.
Previously, even if ChatGPT added plug-in functions, users still had to manually find and enable the required third-party plug-ins, which was not a good experience. Now, ChatGPT's built-in browsing function greatly improves the conversational experience of real-time information.
On September 25, ChatAI announced that it will launch ChatGPT's voice and image capabilities over the next two weeks, allowing users to have voice conversations or show ChatGPT what they are talking about. Among them, the voice function will be launched on iOS and Android platforms.
From the perspective of OpenAl's voice function and restart networking, real-time voice may become the main way of human-computer interaction, thereby improving intelligence and convenience more obviously, making ChatGPT a real personal assistant and application traffic entrance. In the future, large model intelligent assistants that can interact with real-time information or are frequently used in daily life will put forward a large demand for computing power on the inference side.
At present, the latest voice interaction function of ChatGPT is first implemented on mobile phones, and it is expected to expand the scope of use in IoT terminal devices such as speakers in the future.