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Here's what’s wrong with ChatGPT’s Browse with Bing 👎
🚫 Why you shouldn't use Browse with Bing, OpenAI’s plans for an 'iPhone' of AI, Everyday AI new website features, and more!
Everyday AI
September 29, 2023
Outsmart The Future
Today in Everyday AI
7 minute read
🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: ChatGPT’s Browse with Bing is back! Finally, ChatGPT is connected to the internet…right? Not really. We’re breaking down the new feature and showing you why you shouldn’t use it. Give it a listen.
🕵️♂️ Fresh Finds: AI-powered product research & docs, AMD’s thoughts on NVIDIA’s AI chips, and why artists across China are boycotting one of the country’s biggest social media platforms.
Read on for Fresh Finds.
🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: OpenAI’s plans for an 'iPhone' of AI, Meta's new AI chatbot trained on public posts, and the National Security Agency opening an AI Security Center. For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.
🚀 AI In 5: We built this for you! Introducing a new(ish) Everyday AI! We made some updates to our website based on feedback from all of you and wanted to show you all. You asked, we built. Check the new features!
🧠 Learn & Leveraging AI: Wait, so is OpenAI’s new Browse with Bing mode a good thing? Does it get rid of hallucinations? We say: don’t use it. Keep reading for that!
↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We talked about AI developments in healthcare, Meta’s AI-filled announcements, and finding the best ChatGPT PDF plugin.
Check it here!
Browse with Bing - The New ChatGPT Feature We Think You Shouldn't Use 🙅
Browse with Bing has finally returned!
After OpenAI pulled the ‘Browse with Bing’ mode in ChatGPT in July, the mode that connects ChatGPT to the internet was just reintroduced.
It has everyone buzzing not only because it brings the internet back to ChatGPT but (some people) think it removes the September 2021 cutoff date for ChatGPT and gets rid of those pesky lies AI chats sometimes tell.
We hate to break it to y’all but spoiler alert - that ain’t how it works shorties.
Today, we're exploring ChatGPT's Browse with Bing mode and showing you why you shouldn't use this feature just yet.
Join the conversation and ask Jordan any questions about ChatGPT.
Also on the pod today:
• History of Browse with Bing ↩️
• Browsing the internet with ChatGPT plugins 🔌
• Browse with Bing limitation examples 🚫
It’ll be worth your 35 minutes:
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Read This – An interesting study shows that although AI helped consultants produce faster and better content, they were less likely to produce correct solutions.
1. Jony Ive and OpenAI Aim to Craft the 'iPhone' of AI 📱
Jony Ive, Apple’s former chief design officer, and OpenAI are reportedly brainstorming to construct the “iPhone of artificial intelligence.” With a substantial backing from Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, the duo is inspired by the revolutionary touchscreen technology of the original iPhone. They aspire to develop a device ensuring a “more natural and intuitive user experience” for interacting with AI, possibly leading to a screenless, wearable AI gadget.
2. Meta's New AI Chatbot Trained on Public Posts 🤖
Meta Platforms has trained its new AI virtual assistant using public Facebook and Instagram posts, ensuring private posts remain confidential. The move aims to enhance the AI's capabilities while upholding users' privacy, a balance that is crucial in today's digital age. Curious about how your public posts are teaching AI? Learn more here!
3. National Security Agency Opens AI Security Center 🛡️
The National Security Agency (NSA) is stepping up its AI game with the launch of a new AI Security Center. Announced by NSA Director Army Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, the center will oversee the development and integration of AI within U.S. national security systems, aiming to promote the secure adoption of AI capabilities across the national security enterprise and the defense industrial base. Dive into the details here!
4. European Central Bank Using AI to Understand Inflation 🏦
The European Central Bank (ECB) is exploring the potential of artificial intelligence to enhance its grasp on inflation trends. After years of underestimating price pressures, the ECB is hopeful that AI can provide more accurate insights, preventing delays in policy adjustments and ensuring more timely and effective responses to inflationary trends.
5. AI-Generated Phishing Scams Lure 39% of Americans 🎣
A study by Beyond Identity reveals a startling vulnerability to AI-generated phishing scams, with 39% of the 1,009 Americans surveyed falling for at least one ChatGPT-generated phishing attempt. The scams are sophisticated, with 49% admitting they would download a fake ChatGPT app or AI tools.
A New-ish Everyday AI:
New website updates and features! 🙌
Sup y’all!
Today's AI in 5 is a little different. We wanted to show you our new website and all the cool features we added based on feedback from all of you!
So go check out the site and today’s AI in 5 and hope you enjoy it!
Hint: Go check the new AI learning tracks! Great way to learn anything AI!
🤷♂️ What’s Going On and Why It Matters:
Maybe you’ve heard the buzz.
Maybe you haven’t.
But we figured we had to address some recent updates to ChatGPT, and set the record straight.
At Everyday AI, we always cut it to you straight. There’s enough AI noise out there to drive a person crazy, and it’s hard enough to keep up.
So when we talked earlier this week about Browse with Bing being re-released, we were confused when everyone and their neighbor’s babysitter was pumping it up.
They said, ‘GPT’s 2021 knowledge cutoff is gone!”
Wrong.
They said, ‘Now ChatGPT won’t hallucinate with Browse with Bing!”
Wrong.
To make matters worse, impression-seekers on social media made some wild Browse with Bing claims like it was the best thing since sliced bread. (Side note… was there anything bad about unsliced bread?)
Seriously… have y’all never actually used plugins?!
So, we dedicated an entire episode to giving y’all the inside scoop on Browse with Bing, what it does, what it doesn’t, and why we think it’s not worth using.
🦾How You Can Leverage:
Gray areas suck, right?
Why are so many people hyping up Browse with Bing mode inside ChatGPT? It must be awesome, right?
Let’s sift through the confusion, ditch marketing lingo, and spit the facts on Browse with Bing. (We’ll call it BwB for short, shorties.)
1 – BwB doesn’t erase the 2021 cutoff 🚫
Let’s start at the top.
In Open AI’s tweet announcing BwB coming back, they said ChatGPT is no longer limited to data before September 2021. That’s technically correct.
However, most people are spinning that message, saying that the September 2021 knowledge cutoff is no more! And now everyone’s confused.
Straight Talk:
The GPT model is still trained only through September 2021. BwB just adds a quick and fast search query first, but the base model itself is still only trained through September 2021.
2 – BwB doesn’t erase hallucinations ❌
Not a chance.
If you think you can now spit out subpar ChatGPT content at a thousand words a second error free by using Browse with Bing, think again. Results from BwB can be ambiguous and slightly misleading. You can watch our live, side-by-side comparison to see the differences.
And while BwB does cite sources when you ask a general query, it doesn’t always show what’s going on under the hood. As an example, if you ask BwB to summarize a web page, you won’t see what it did (or didn’t!) analyze.
Straight Talk:
BwB is better than using the default model, but it does not get rid of hallucinations or misleading ambiguity.
3 – Plugins are superior in every way ✅
Sound off if we’re wrong here, but we don’t see a single use-case for BwB over plugins.
Another problematic thing — if BwB gets pulled again, like it did in July, any chat you were working on will lose its connected functionality. With Plugins… not so much. In our free Prime, Prompt, Polish course (Just reply ‘PPP’ to this email for access), we teach everyone to use internet-connected plugins. And because you can have 3 plugins enabled at any time, even one plugin being unexpectedly pulled won’t halt your progress.
Oh! Even MORE important than all that, is that BwB is a closed-off mode. All of your work just stays in the chat. In Plugins mode, you can connect your outputs to thousands of destinations, tapping into both direct integrations and marketing automation to put your chats on autopilot.
Straight Talk:
There’s no real use case for BwB in its current state if you have access to Plugins mode. BwB is closed-off and siloed, whereas Plugins mode opens a world of outside business automations to automate mundane tasks.
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