Artificial intelligence chatbots have taken the world by storm in recent years, most notably OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which has proven helpful whether you need to come up with recipes, brainstorm for an essay, or write a movie script about something silly for you and your friends to laugh at. 

Before the recent update, ChatGPT was unable to analyse or discuss events which occurred after September 2021, as that was the latest data which it learned from. For example, if you wanted to know about a new show, ChatGPT couldn’t help you.

However, ChatGPT 3.5 fixes these problems. By connecting the chatbot to the internet, ChatGPT can now access up-to-date information. Now you can get information which relates to the most recent events, but this development also several potential dangers. ChatGPT now has access to a plethora of new articles which may reflect certain radical opinions or contain misinformation or offensive rhetoric. While ChatGPT could only create false information from the true information off which it was trained before, now it can echo false information read from anywhere online.

 Now, ChatGPT can be used as a browser to access the most modern information, but the same precautions used while browsing must be taken to avoid misinformation. The future of AI looks bright, but we will need to see whether connecting AI to the internet creates more problems than it solves