OpenAI Debuts AI-Powered Browser With Memory and Agent Features (chatgpt.com) 26
OpenAI released ChatGPT Atlas on Tuesday, an AI-powered web browser that CEO Sam Altman described as "smooth" and "quick" during a livestream announcement. The browser is available globally on macOS while versions for Windows, iOS, and Android are expected soon. Atlas includes memory features that personalize the browsing experience and an agent mode that allows ChatGPT to perform tasks such as booking reservations and flights or editing documents.
Users can manage these stored memories through the browser's settings and can open incognito windows. The browser displays a split-screen view by default when users click links from search results. The view shows both the webpage and the ChatGPT transcript simultaneously. Atlas also offers webpage summarization and a feature called "cursor chat" that allows users to select text and have ChatGPT revise it inline.
Users can manage these stored memories through the browser's settings and can open incognito windows. The browser displays a split-screen view by default when users click links from search results. The view shows both the webpage and the ChatGPT transcript simultaneously. Atlas also offers webpage summarization and a feature called "cursor chat" that allows users to select text and have ChatGPT revise it inline.
Honestly, no thanks. (Score:5, Insightful)
A full-on AI browser is a brain-smoothing privacy nightmare.
openAI Acknowledges Perplexity Is Leader (Score:3)
Since this is an also ran based on Perplexity's already released browser, I think that this is just openAI admitting that Perplexity is the leader.
Stock dump inbound.
Memory? (Score:3)
I'd like to see that, ChatGPT itself never reads the memory file and any projects don't read theirs either.
I had to use a keyboard macro app because I have to write this after EVERY SINGLE ONE of its replies.
"Try again, remodel THIS your text, DO NOT research anew for 5 minutes!!!
No beginning with 'short answer' or other crap!
A single text block, with CR/LF only as structure, pastable into my notes, without the oval link buttons, do NOT use font formatting, they do not COPY/PASTE, use raw HTML links, and by 'raw' I mean without extra html commands, NO double links one with [] and one with (), without em-dashes, without subtitles, without numbering, without bullets and without extra lines of you asking "should I.." or "Do you want me..."
And also, stay UNDER 1400 chars "
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Did you try using custom instructions (system prompt) instead of memory? You instructions seem to be more fitting there.
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Funny ChatGPT anecdote about the custom instructions. got tired of it starting every reply with "Absolutely!" or "That's a great question!" on everything, and to eliminate the fluffy language. So I gave it custom instructions not to do that. After that, every response was "Let me answer that for you with no fluff, no delay, just straight to the point!" It would end with things like "No introductions, nothing else, just what you asked for!" :-/
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Sometimes these things act quite dumb with that.
Funny thing I noticed with GPT-5: As soon as I start asking the advanced technical questions, it stops doing the great question stuff and rather focuses on getting to the issue. That does not mean the thinking model alone avoids that, but diving into a challenging topic seems to distract it from fluff.
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They act dumb because they are dumb.
It's a text prediction engine, just like your cell phone's text messaging auto-complete thing... just LLM-AI is just a much bigger database that can do the auto-complete thing with sentences and stuff. There's no real intelligence to it, there won't be for many years... but, this is the beginning of work on Skynet or The Matrix.
Just wait until US factories replace workers with AI-powered robots... what about when those AI-driven tractors take over farming, or they instal
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You just described the first layer of an LLM. Now try to understand the other 40+ ones.
These things do a bit more than just text completion. You do not need to like LLM, but you are making a fool of yourself if you claim they can't do anything while the people you're telling this use them for a large number of tasks successfully.
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Sure... it can generate some code for you, then you have to go through and check it... sure it can summarize a big article, or you could read the article. Sure, your car can drive itself, until it loses contact with the satellites and drives you into a cul-de-sac it can't understand.
I don't know about you, but I'd feel better about putting my name on the code if I wrote it... I'd rather read the article in whole... and, I'd rather just drive the car myself.
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Your car has a motor, so you do not need a horse to pull it. Your IDE has a syntax checker, so you catch typos early.
Why shouldn't you use a LLM for things where a LLM is helpful?
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I tried everything!
Give it your credit card info, they said... (Score:3)
Prompt Injection (Score:3)
Incognito windows in an AI browser (Score:5, Insightful)
Your privacy will be violated any which way, but you won't feel it.
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I prefer to create a user and purge it when the browser closes.
please useradd -m new-$$ /usr/bin/firefox
please -u new-$$
please userdel -r -f new-$$
booking reservations and flights.. (Score:3)
Been hearing that one for decades. Who the f*ck actually needs that? Who would trade their favorite browser for such a lame feature? Wasn't he promising AGI and a utopian world of joy and leisure just a year ago? And now we get reservations? No amount of tap dancing is going to make that a hit with the common folk.
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Will be interesting how many people get screwed (Score:3)
Because they naively trust this unproven and flaky tech for important stuff.
If you are going to be in AI company (Score:3)
So it's no surprise openai is building their own browser because that's basically the platform. The hard part is going to be getting anyone to use it.
Google could bombard you with ads every time you use their search service or email. Microsoft of course has their operating system and so does Apple.
Chat GTP will probably want to lock their software to their browser, which is a violation of various antitrust laws but we haven't enforced those in 20 years, but it's going to be hard for them to do that when other companies are competing with them.
I suspect that over time Microsoft and Google are just going to be the ones that control AI. And eventually one of them will buy out chat GTP and the other software companies out there that don't just go out of business on their own.
why (Score:2)
why have the view that shows the original page at all? We don't have to *read* anymore.
I think this is the browser of choice at The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good.
No plugins? no thanks... (Score:2)
Until it has a chrome-compatible plugin architecture, this is a non-starter. At least for me. I can't live without my Bitwarden, and my AdBlocker. Just sayin'.
Cursey, the chatbot cursor that curses back! (Score:2)
The greatest teacher, failure is. (Score:2)
an AI-powered web browser that CEO Sam Altman described as "smooth" and "quick" during a livestream announcement.
"Is the dark side more powerful?"
"No. Quicker. Smoother. More seductive."
"LLMs are the path to the dark side.
Tokens lead to context. Context leads to Attention.
Attention leads to Hallucinations.
Hallucination leads to suffering."
"But what if we put up guardrails?"
"Quiet your mind you must.
No more will I teach you today."