Previously, the artificial intelligence-powered system was only educated using data up to September 2021.

As a result of the change, select premium users will be able to ask the chatbot questions about current events and gain access to news.

According to OpenAI, the capability will be available to all users soon.

Earlier this week, OpenAI stated that the chatbot will soon be able to converse with users via voice.

ChatGPT and other systems like it employ massive volumes of data to provide convincing human-like responses to user questions.

They are likely to significantly alter how people seek for information online.

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However, the “knowledge” of the viral chatbot has been locked in time till now. Its database was compiled from the contents of the internet in September 2021. It couldn’t access the internet in real time.

So, for example, if you ask the free version when the last earthquake in Turkey occurred or whether Donald Trump is still alive, it will respond, “I’m sorry, but I cannot provide real-time information.”

Some potential users have been turned off by ChatGPT’s incapacity to take recent events into account.

“If this functionality or capability was not available, you would have to go to Google, Twitter, or your preferred news outlet.” “You can now use this to get the latest news, gossip, and current events,” says Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor of business psychology at University College London.

“So the main implication is that it’s going to absorb a lot of the incoming questions and inquiries that were going to search engines or going to news outlets,” he explained.

However, Mr Chamorro-Premuzic cautioned that using the platform to conduct searches may be a double-edged sword.