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Follow these steps, and you'll be checking current events in seconds. Written by Sabrina Ortiz, Editor May 30, 2024 at 1:28 p.m. PT * * * * * RANK TREND 1 OpenAI teases GPT-5 as a key step toward AGI 2 Meta advances LLMs with penalties for wrong answers 3 Microsoft turns Windows Copilot into an app 4 iPad Pro: Apple's most advanced piece of hardware view trend report Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET At its Spring Update event, OpenAI finally addressed one of ChatGPT's biggest pain points -- its knowledge cutoff. Now, both paid and free users can have ChatGPT pull their answers from the web through its Browse feature, giving the chatbot the most up-to-date information. Also: OpenAI just gave free ChatGPT users browsing, data analysis, and more One of the Browse feature's biggest perks is that ChatGPT can reference the web to provide answers about current events, which the free version was previously unable to do. For example, I asked the chatbot a timely question: "What is the weather in NYC?" ChatGPT found the answer by visiting five websites, as seen below. Screenshot by Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Another major perk, also seen in the image above, is that when ChatGPT uses Browse, it includes links to the websites from which it pulled its answer. This is especially important if you want to verify the information, especially since generative AI tools such as ChatGPT are prone to hallucinations. Getting started is easy, but it can be confusing when you first visit the ChatGPT interface -- there is no obvious Browse setting that you can simply toggle on. Follow the steps below to get started in seconds. NEWSLETTERS ZDNET Tech Today ZDNET's Tech Today newsletter is a daily briefing of the newest, most talked about stories, five days a week. Subscribe See all 1. 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In my experience, this means that whenever you ask the chatbot anything about current events, Browse will turn on automatically. For example, when I asked ChatGPT, "Who is currently the President of the United States?" it automatically turned on the Browse feature to index the web for the answer. That's it! Happy ChatGPT web browsing! ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Transparency is sorely lacking amid growing AI interest What is a Chief AI Officer, and how do you become one? 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