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Re:Building an interpreter for my programming language with ... by twoodfin on Sunday December 04, 2022 @09:22AM (#33853916)
I don’t think it actually can browse the web. It’s obviously been trained with an extensive web-sourced corpus.

It seems that the developers have placed guardrails around web-search-like queries not because ChatGPT can’t answer them, but because they want to discourage using it that way for—I’d guess because they want to direct usage towards the conversational / contextual aspects they’re trying to improve.

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Re:Building an interpreter for my programming language with ... by tiagod on Sunday December 04, 2022 @10:02AM (#33854273)
The presumable pre-prompt, extracted through clever prompts, seems to indicate a browsing setting, which is disabled.

There's also WebGPT[0] already with such capabilities, which could've been merged to ChatGPT.

[0] https://openai.com/blog/webgpt/

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Re:Building an interpreter for my programming language with ... by debugnik on Sunday December 04, 2022 @11:29AM (#33855059)
Keep in mind that "setting" is part of a prompt for a language model, also asking it to behave like an assistant: They're nudging it so it doesn't pretend that it can actually browse, but such setting might not actually exist.
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