Bumping this as Open AI announced earlier this week it's rolling out browsing and plugin capabilities to all chatgpt plus users. I got browsing capability a few days ago, and just yesterday found out I had plugin access as well.
Interestingly enough as of right now, you cannot combine both as of yet.
Browsing...is definitely beta. The biggest issue seems to be that it is unable to scan many pages due to pages blocking bots. It also can get sidetracked, and since it doesn't know what is legit or not as a source and goes based off the first google result (or bing), the result could be worse than if it did not browse at all. It also cannot read PDFs via browsing. It can however provide an extremely detailed and accurate summary of the Ukraine war and have access to real time info which is a great plus.
Plugins already are looking like an App Store. You have OpenTable, Kayak, Expedia etc. I used Zillow which gave me house comparable in an area I am looking at, which definitely was interesting. Not sure that I would use through chatGPT though.
By far the most useful right now would be Wolfram and chatwithPDF (which actually allows browsing with a direct URL to a specific PDF page). This allows specific new use concepts that weren't possible with the base chatgpt including one monetization concept I had. Plugins are rolling out extremely quick, and gpt 4 with plugins seems to be the way forward.
Wolfram specifically fixes a lot of gpt 4 inherent shortcomings, most notably math without the ability to validate itself. Now it has the ability to get accurate results including real time data if wished.
Deeplearning.ai has a free prompt engineering course in collaboration with OpenAI. This course uses the API functionality via python (Still waiting for my GPT4 API key but can do this with gpt3.5) but most practices also applies to chatgpt. Note that API calls costs $$$ if you do run them.
https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-co...or-developers/
Anyways, good time to sign up to chatgptplus if you were waiting on better features.