Blinking starry background in Agent Mode is very annoying.
ChatGPT Atlas
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#452So openAI's answer to Perplexity's Comet. I'm afraid this will be the future, as these AI-browsers do truly bring value. But they open up the gate for a single Big Tech Winner that truly knows everything about you, and can even control everything on your behalf. I really hope open-source Browsers like Firefox follow up soon with better alternatives, like on-device LLMs to counteract the "all in the cloud" LLM approac…
Downloaded Comet last week and I was wondering why anthropic/openAI didn't have one. It's a no brainer. Google's hegemony is really going to take a hit, wondering if hardware-software monopolies like Apple are also going to get hit at some point.
When ChatGPT was first released I quickly lost count of the number of HN comments predicting Google had about 6-12 months before their search monopoly and ad revenue evaporated.
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#453Something's bugging me about Atlas - it's clearly Chromium-based (you can tell from the user agent and UI), but I can't find any credit to Chromium anywhere. No license info, no acknowledgments, and when I try to access chrome:// pages they're blocked. Maybe I'm overthinking this, but shouldn't there be some transparency about what you're building on top of? Especially with open source projects that have attribution…
It's a pretty bad look to be using the foundations of your direct competitor.
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#454Here are the highlights from the .DMG installer screens ( https://imgur.com/a/Tu4TlNu ): 1. Turn on browser memories Allow ChatGPT to remember useful details as you browse to give smarter responses and proactive suggestions. You're in control - memories stay private. 2. Ask ChatGPT - on any website Open the ChatGPT sidebar on any website to summarize, explain, or handle tasks - right next to what you're browsing. 3.…
I turned off chatGPT memory entirely because it doesn't know how to segment itself. I was getting inane comments like this when asking about winter tires:
Because you work in firmware (so presumably you appreciate measurement, risk, durability) you might be more critical of the “wear sooner than ideal” signals and want a tire with more robustness.
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#455Earlier quoted context omitted.
Being able to search browser history with natural language is the feature I am most excited for. I can't count the number of times I've spent >10 minutes looking for a link from 5 months ago that I can describe the content of but can't remember the title.
Are we talking searching the URLs and titles? Or the full body of the page? The latter would require tracking a fuckton of data, including a whole lot of potentially sensitive data.
A tangential issue is that pages often change over time. So your snapshot could be stale. Not sure whether that’s a bug or a feature.
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#456Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Significant losses: Internal documents revealed that Amazon's devices division lost over $25 billion between 2017 and 2021. A separate report estimated the Alexa division alone lost around $10 billion in 2022.
Think about this way: They subsidized the hardware and hardware development too much and created a messy third-party ecosystem rather than focusing these 25 bn USD on developing an AI chat (OpenAI spent less in total).
Alexa came out in 2013, long before transformers (2017) or chatgpt (2022). The state of the art back then was closer to CleverBot than anything useful.
We will likely have decent standalone voice assistants at some point soon but Alexa and Siri were way too early for that.
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#458Here are the highlights from the .DMG installer screens ( https://imgur.com/a/Tu4TlNu ): 1. Turn on browser memories Allow ChatGPT to remember useful details as you browse to give smarter responses and proactive suggestions. You're in control - memories stay private. 2. Ask ChatGPT - on any website Open the ChatGPT sidebar on any website to summarize, explain, or handle tasks - right next to what you're browsing. 3.…
I’m surprised they released something so underwhelming. This will take zero market share from existing browsers.
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#459I've been using Claude Code a lot lately, and I've been thinking of integrating it into our SaaS tool (a formula-driven app designer). I've been holding off primarily because I've been afraid of the cost (we're not making much money off our $9/mo. customers as it is, and this definitely wouldn't help that).
However, it's becoming clear to me that individual apps and websites won't have their own integrated chatbots for long. They'll be siloed, meaning that they can't talk to one another -- and they sure can't access my file system. So we'll have a chatbot first as part of the web browser, and ultimately as part of the operating system, able to access all your stuff and knowing everything about you. (Scary!)
So the future is to make your software scriptable -- not necessarily for human-written scripts, but for LLM integration (using MCP?). Maybe OLE from the nineties was prescient?
Short-term, though, integrating an LLM would probably be good for business, but given that I'm our only engineer and the fact that our bespoke chatbot would likely become obsolete within two years, I don't think it would be worth the investment.
Re: ChatGPT Atlas
#460Here are the highlights from the .DMG installer screens ( https://imgur.com/a/Tu4TlNu ): 1. Turn on browser memories Allow ChatGPT to remember useful details as you browse to give smarter responses and proactive suggestions. You're in control - memories stay private. 2. Ask ChatGPT - on any website Open the ChatGPT sidebar on any website to summarize, explain, or handle tasks - right next to what you're browsing. 3.…
I turned off chatGPT memory entirely because it doesn't know how to segment itself. I was getting inane comments like this when asking about winter tires: Because you work in firmware (so presumably you appreciate measurement, risk, durability) you might be more critical of the “wear sooner than ideal” signals and want a tire with more robustness.
I have also had bad experiences with it and turned it off - especially for creative stuff like mocking up user interfaces it gets “poisoned” but whatever decision it made in some chat 6mo ago and never really iterates on different outcomes unless you steer it away which takes up a bunch of time.