(New York) The now famous artificial intelligence (AI) interface called generative ChatGPT can now fetch data directly from the Internet and collect updated information in real time, announced its creator, OpenAI, a major step for The software.

Until now, ChatGPT’s responses to everyday language requests were based on a large database, most recently dating back to August 2021.

This thus limited the relevance and exhaustiveness of the elements offered by the conversational robot which has been so talked about since its launch in November.

OpenAI had already launched this formula for paying subscribers to ChatGPT in June, but suspended it after users managed to access theoretically paid content for free on the internet.

“Browse with Bing”, the product launched on Wednesday, is again reserved for paying subscribers (Plus and Enterprise services), but OpenAI indicates that it will soon be accessible to all ChatGPT users.

Partner of OpenAI, Microsoft already offered Bing Chat, an integration of GPT-4, the language model which was used to develop ChatGPT, its internet search engine, as did Google with its conversational robot Bard.

The open architecture model, which allows the software to access content from different sources on the Internet, presents more risks than the exclusive use of a single database, controlled by the program publisher.

Although ChatGPT will provide the sources used for its response, it is more likely to return erroneous content.