OpenAI Debuts AI-Powered Browser With Memory and Agent Features (chatgpt.com)
- Reference: 0179844836
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/21/1725235/openai-debuts-ai-powered-browser-with-memory-and-agent-features
- Source link: https://chatgpt.com/atlas/get-started/
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.
[1] https://chatgpt.com/atlas/
openAI Acknowledges Perplexity Is Leader (Score:2)
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 "
Re: (Score:2)
Did you try using custom instructions (system prompt) instead of memory? You instructions seem to be more fitting there.
Re: (Score:2)
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!" :-/
Give it your credit card info, they said... (Score:3)
... ai agents will make your life so much easier, they said..
Prompt Injection (Score:3)
Hopefully they did a better job of protecting against prompt injections than Perplexity did with Comet. [1]https://brave.com/blog/comet-p... [brave.com]
[1] https://brave.com/blog/comet-prompt-injection/
Incognito windows in an AI browser (Score:5, Insightful)
Your privacy will be violated any which way, but you won't feel it.
Re: (Score:2)
I prefer to create a user and purge it when the browser closes.
please useradd -m new-$$
please -u new-$$ /usr/bin/firefox
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.
Re: (Score:2)
Less a lame feature and more a dangerous feature. Initially those bookings reservations and flights are going to be biased towards those pay OpenAI to be promoted and later, once they think you trust the feature, your bookings be directed to whomever pays OpenAI the most to get it.
Re: (Score:2)
Practically nobody NEEDS *.ai. But, practically nobody NEEDS smartphones, like the one sitting on your desk or tucked into your purse. Nobody NEEDS cigarettes, except they make less attractive women look bold & sexy. Oh wait .....
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)
You need a platform. Because you have to control the platform so that you have access to the data that lets you differentiate between AI slop created by your software and actual users that you are using to train the next generation of AI slop algorithms.
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'.
Honestly, no thanks. (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm already leery of how much my behavior is shaped by search engines and major aggregator algorithms on Reddit/X/etc...
A full-on AI browser is a brain-smoothing privacy nightmare.