How to use OpenAI’s new ChatGPT search engine

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ChatGPT can be a source of detailed AI-powered travel itineraries, meal plans, content ideas and more, but Open AI has bigger plans.

A new feature aims to shake up the AI ​​chatbot game: ChatGPT search.

What is ChatGPT search?

October 31, OpenAI Announces New ChatGPT Search Featurestating that the AI ​​chatbot “can now search the web much better than before” and deliver “fast and timely responses with links to relevant web sources.”

Initially, ChatGPT generated responses using specific training data with very limited web search capabilities. However, this AI model has access to the Internet and provides links to any source from which it retrieves information.

For example, asking ChatGPT for a “5-day Barcelona travel itinerary” before the new search feature would produce a neatly organized bulleted list with ideas for places to visit, restaurants to eat, and things to do, without corresponding links. . Now you may see a similar list, but it will have links for quick access to booking tickets, viewing the menu, or otherwise getting more information about the event.

If ChatGPT search sounds like a tool you might want to try, here’s how to use it.

How to use ChatGPT search

The ChatGPT search tool will be built directly into the existing ChatGPT interface in web, mobile and desktop applications. It is currently available to the following users:

• ChatGPT Plus users

• ChatGPT Team Members

• Searching for users on the GPT waitlist

You should see a small globe icon with “Search” written next to it under the ChatGPT panel where you enter your queries or questions. Clicking this web search icon manually launches a web search, or you can simply ask questions and make requests as usual and let ChatGPT decide when and if it needs to access the Internet for up-to-date information.

While only select users will be able to use ChatGPT search immediately, OpenAI says it plans to “roll it out to all free users in the coming months.”

Prospects

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is the preferred AI chatbot over Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot. With this new integrated search feature, OpenAI could be the push needed to keep ChatGPT at the top.

For example, using ChatGPT Search to create a comprehensive seven-day meal plan with associated recipes is much more useful than a seven-day meal plan with general ideas for which you need to find recipes.

Of course, with so much information to be learned and other AI models that could potentially contribute toAI hallucinationsChatGPT may end up providing misinformation.

Only time will tell how successful ChatGPT search is against competitors like Bing and Google, but it’s hard to count Open AI given ChatGPT’s popularity and momentum.