Presumably the browser installed by users is an efficient way of scraping websites that are normally hard to scrape from OpenAI's servers.
ChatGPT Atlas
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What value? I haven't used them myself, but from reviews I've seen on Youtube they appear to be flaky and not all that useful. It reminds me of when voice assistants like Siri came out, and it turned out that the only thing they were good for was setting timers, controlling music playback, and gimmicky stuff like that.
Try it yourself and ignore the hype. For certain things it can be really useful, just keep in mind that it's early days. I recently used Comet to find out of print movies that were never released on DVD/Bluray, then find them on ebay, then find the best value, then provide me with a list to order. It felt like magic watching it work, and saved me many hours of either doing it myself or scripting it. I did have to rep…
If the movies were never released on DVD/Bluray, what is it that you are searching for on ebay? VHS?
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#473Earlier quoted context omitted.
Surely this is something you can do with simple searches...? Unless you're reaching the level of trying to buy dozens or hundreds of movies. https://xkcd.com/1205/
This xkcd comic doesn't apply anymore due to AI making generating automation code trivial.
You're discounting the mental effort that goes into describing what you want to an LLM and then verifying the output, which is only worth it if it actually saves you time. Doing a simple search for a few DVDs does not seem worth the effort to me.
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#474So 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…
Definitely the feature but I'm sure Gemini is seconds away (figuratively) from invading Chrome and if it has an agent mode itself, it will eat everybody's lunch in the browser space.
Yes, there is a on-device Gemini model for Chrome. (Chrome Built-in AI), they have been testing it for over a year (been participating) and there were hackathons around it (ongoing until Nov 1 https://googlechromeai2025.devpost.com).
In general, I like the idea, but I'm afraid the final implementation will still auto-decide between using the local (for cost saving) and cloud LLM. And potentially outsourcing all your browser-usage LLMs calls to Big Tech like Google is a no-go .
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#475Here 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.
There was a phase when ChatGPT would respond to everything I said, even in the same request with something like “..here’s the thing that you asked for, of course, without the fluff.” Or blah blah blah “straight to the point.” Or some such thinly veiled euphemisms. No matter how many times I told it not to talk like that, it didn’t work until I found that “core memory”.
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#476World: spends millions of dollars and decades fighting bot traffic on the internet
OpenAI: here's a bot browser
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#477Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was sceptical as well before trying it out, but it is unfortunately very practical to ask the AI sidebar about an information-dense website or even github codebase (just as dev examples). There were of course many browser extensions that did this beforehand (and even better, by hyper-linking the exact text passage of answer segments), but the main differentiator is that most people don't use them/know about them, a…
Care to share some of those extensions? I feel like we're on the second/third wave of llm enhanced tools, and there's plenty of good stuff that got passed over from earlier waves of products/tool attempts.
Try search on a browser extension store for "AI Chat website" or similar. Also you can check out https://github.com/nanobrowser/nanobrowser.
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Ah, makes sense why I need to use an extension for that: > To use this feature, you must be located in the US
I just don't get this. Google has SO MANY THINGS that are US only. While most other companies release things to everyone (like OpenAI). How does Google expect to compete with OpenAI globally if they keep limitting the rest of the world?
What's not to get? Talk to your political representatives about reining in the EDPB if you want access to cutting edge features.
Or if you are not in the EU, spend more money I guess and become an attractive market.
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#479Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try it yourself and ignore the hype. For certain things it can be really useful, just keep in mind that it's early days. I recently used Comet to find out of print movies that were never released on DVD/Bluray, then find them on ebay, then find the best value, then provide me with a list to order. It felt like magic watching it work, and saved me many hours of either doing it myself or scripting it. I did have to rep…
Surely this is something you can do with simple searches...? Unless you're reaching the level of trying to buy dozens or hundreds of movies. https://xkcd.com/1205/
You’d be surprised.
I consider myself extremely competent at getting niche results. Couldn’t for the life of me find a certain after market part for a home appliance.
I go ask Claude to find it and it comes back with exactly what I need. One of its queries hit a website with a poorly labeled product that it was able to figure out was exactly what I needed. That product was nested so deeply in results that I would have never found it on my own.
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#480Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah, makes sense why I need to use an extension for that: > To use this feature, you must be located in the US
I just don't get this. Google has SO MANY THINGS that are US only. While most other companies release things to everyone (like OpenAI). How does Google expect to compete with OpenAI globally if they keep limitting the rest of the world?
Google is an established business, OpenAI is desperately burning money trying to come up with a business plan. Exports controls and compliance probably isn't going to be today's problem for them, ever.