{"id":160938,"date":"2023-03-24T12:25:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/openai-connects-chatgpt-to-the-internet"},"modified":"2023-03-24T12:25:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T17:25:15","slug":"openai-connects-chatgpt-to-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/openai-connects-chatgpt-to-the-internet","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/openai-connects-chatgpt-to-the-internet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI\u2019s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can now browse the internet \u2014 in certain cases. OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot\u2019s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. Available in alpha to ChatGPT users and developers on the waitlist, OpenAI says that it\u2019ll initially prioritize a small number of developers and subscribers to its premium ChatGPT Plus plan before rolling out larger-scale and API access.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI today <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/chatgpt-plugins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched<\/a> plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot\u2019s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. Available in alpha to ChatGPT users and developers on the <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/waitlist\/plugins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">waitlist<\/a>, OpenAI says that it\u2019ll initially prioritize a small number of developers and subscribers to its premium ChatGPT Plus plan before rolling out larger-scale and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/03\/04\/openai-launches-an-api-for-chatgpt-a-startup-attempts-a-humanoid-robot-and-salesforce-turns-it-around\/\">API<\/a> access.<\/p>\n<p>Easily the most intriguing plugin is OpenAI\u2019s first-party web-browsing plugin, which allows ChatGPT to draw data from around the web to answer the various questions posed to it. (Previously, ChatGPT\u2019s knowledge was limited to dates, events and people prior to around September 2021.) The plugin retrieves content from the web using the Bing search API and shows any websites it visited in crafting an answer, citing its sources in ChatGPT\u2019s responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can now browse the internet \u2014 in certain cases. OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot\u2019s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. Available in alpha to ChatGPT users and developers on the waitlist, OpenAI says that it\u2019ll initially prioritize [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}