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ChatGPT can now browse the internet and is able to provide users with up-to-date information sourced online, maker OpenAI has said.<\/p>\n
Until now, the generative AI model’s responses have been based on data up to September 2021 on which it had been trained.<\/p>\n
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, OpenAI said the updated version of the model was first being made available to its Plus and Enterprise users, but would be made available to everyone ‘soon’.<\/p>\n
The update means the programme will be able to accurately discuss current affairs and provide more authoritative information, OpenAI said.<\/p>\n
‘ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct links to sources. It is no longer limited to data before September 2021,’ the company said in its post.<\/p>\n
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ChatGPT can now browse the internet and is able to provide users with up-to-date information sourced online, maker OpenAI has said.<\/p>\n
‘Browsing is particularly useful for tasks that require up-to-date information, such as helping you with technical research, trying to choose a bike, or planning a vacation.’<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, the artificial intelligence firm revealed that ChatGPT would soon gain the ability to speak \u2013 enabling users to have a voice conversation with the software for the first time.<\/p>\n
This would bring ChatGPT closer to rivals such as Amazon’s Alexa.<\/p>\n
In addition, OpenAI said it was also introducing ‘image capabilities’, meaning users could share photos with ChatGPT and discuss details about what is in the picture.<\/p>\n
Both new features are being introduced to the app’s premium users initially.<\/p>\n
‘Voice and image give you more ways to use ChatGPT in your life,’ OpenAI said in a blog post.<\/p>\n
‘Snap a picture of a landmark while travelling and have a live conversation about what’s interesting about it.<\/p>\n
‘When you’re home, snap pictures of your fridge and pantry to figure out what’s for dinner (and ask follow up questions for a step by step recipe).\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘After dinner, help your child with a maths problem by taking a photo, circling the problem set, and having it share hints with both of you.’<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Facebook parent firm Meta became the latest tech giant to launch a chatbot \u2013 Meta AI \u2013 which users will be able to converse with via the firm’s range of messaging platforms, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n
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Elon Musk wants to push technology to its absolute limit, from space travel to self-driving cars \u2014 but he draws the line at artificial intelligence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The billionaire first shared his distaste for AI in 2014, calling it humanity’s ‘biggest existential threat’ and comparing it to ‘summoning the demon.’<\/p>\n
At the time, Musk also revealed he was investing in AI companies not to make money but to keep an eye on the technology in case it gets out of hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His main fear is that in the wrong hands, if AI becomes advanced, it could overtake humans and spell the end of mankind, which is known as The Singularity.<\/p>\n
That concern is shared among many brilliant minds, including the late Stephen Hawking, who told the\u00a0BBC\u00a0in 2014: ‘The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.<\/p>\n
‘It would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite his fear of AI, Musk has invested in the San Francisco-based AI group Vicarious, in DeepMind, which has since been acquired by Google, and OpenAI, creating the popular ChatGPT program that has taken the world by storm in recent months.<\/p>\n
During a 2016 interview, Musk noted that he and OpenAI created the company to ‘have democratisation of AI technology to make it widely available.’<\/p>\n
Musk founded OpenAI with Sam Altman, the company’s CEO, but in 2018 the billionaire attempted to take control of the start-up.<\/p>\n
His request was rejected, forcing him to quit OpenAI and move on with his other projects.<\/p>\n
In November, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, which became an instant success worldwide.<\/p>\n
The chatbot uses ‘large language model’ software to train itself by scouring a massive amount of text data so it can learn to generate eerily human-like text in response to a given prompt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
ChatGPT is used to write research papers, books, news articles, emails and more.<\/p>\n
But while Altman is basking in its glory, Musk is attacking ChatGPT.<\/p>\n
He says the AI is ‘woke’ and deviates from OpenAI’s original non-profit mission.<\/p>\n
‘OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it ‘Open’ AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft, Musk tweeted in February.<\/p>\n
The Singularity\u00a0is making waves worldwide as artificial intelligence advances in ways only seen in science fiction – but what does it actually mean?<\/p>\n
In simple terms, it describes a hypothetical future where technology surpasses human intelligence\u00a0and changes the path of our evolution.<\/p>\n
Experts have said that once AI reaches this point, it will be able to innovate much faster than humans.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There are two ways the advancement could play out, with the first leading to humans and machines working together to create a world better suited for humanity.<\/p>\n
For example, humans could scan their\u00a0consciousness and store it in a computer in which they will live forever.<\/p>\n
The second scenario is that AI becomes more powerful than humans, taking control and making humans its slaves – but if this is true, it is far off in the distant future.<\/p>\n
Researchers are now looking for signs of AI\u00a0 reaching The Singularity, such as the technology’s ability to\u00a0translate speech with the accuracy of a human and perform tasks faster.<\/p>\n
Former Google engineer Ray Kurzweil predicts it will be reached by 2045.<\/p>\n
He has made 147 predictions about technology advancements since the early 1990s – and 86 per cent have been correct.\u00a0<\/p>\n