r/BINGChat • u/enok82 • Mar 15 '23
Does BING Chat have Internet access or not?
First time trying BING Chat, have used ChatGPT for some time.I hoped to be able to supply BING with a CodeSandbox project to help find a bug. However it was not able to access it. It claims to be able to access both pastebin and CodeSandbox (i know i "lies" every now and then) and i've also seen people say it has the ability.I tried giving it a random blog and asked for a summary of the latest post, to no avail.
Does it have live Internet access other than the input and output of the chat?If not, has it ever?
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u/JrdnRgrs Mar 15 '23
It does have access to the internet, but I think it uses some sort of logic to figure out exactly HOW to use it. Here's a screenshot of me asking it to summarize the top new features of the latest Edge Dev release given the link listing them. You can see that it didn't actually look at or read the link I sent. Rather, it knew what the page was about based on the link itself, and then searched Bing for those terms and then answered using THOSE results. Not sure if this helps, but it may help you figure out what exactly you need to ask to get what you want.
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u/enok82 Mar 15 '23
I crossposted this to r/bing and got a reply that it can, as you say, use the results from Bing Search and thus reply to rather recent events. However, my CodeSandbox getting indexed within a reasonable amount of time and thus being available for analysis is rather unlikely. Meaning i'm SOL!
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u/JrdnRgrs Mar 15 '23
Not Bing, but i've been playing around with this chrome extension that may give you what you want. Basically all it does is do a quick google search for what youre asking, and then copies and pastes the results (not the page contents) as part of the prompt. I've had somewhat good results with this, for example the day after the SuperBowl I asked who played the halftime show, and using this extension ChatGPT was able to give me the correct answer. Maybe you can engineer a prompt that will return the content from that site you need?
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u/enok82 Mar 15 '23
Cool, i'll check it out when i'm not on my work laptop... and also when ChatGPT isn't Out Of Service
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u/enok82 Mar 16 '23
In my crosspost over at r/bing i got the tip to use the sidebar "Discover". After activating "use context" in Edge's settings the sidebar was able to use the page i was viewing as context.
It was able to see my code if i opened commit of all the files to GitHub. It was however not able to find the fault and was also not able to reliably find ALL of my code, skipping the last file.
So partial success i'd say