GPT-3 Web Browsing (WebGPT) enhances factual accuracy

AI Impact Summary

OpenAI has trained a GPT-3 variant with a text-based web browser to answer open-ended questions using live web sources. This shifts the model from static knowledge to dynamic information retrieval, increasing factual accuracy but introducing dependencies on source quality and page availability. For engineering teams, this implies new considerations around latency, outbound network access, and robust governance for source citation and safety to prevent leakage of sensitive data or manipulation of results.