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Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by gnarlouse »

ahdada8 wrote: post #492
gnarlouse wrote: post #488

I'm still shocked that there isn't basic functionality in chatgpt that allows you to fork conversations to have subtopical conversational threads off of a main one. For example, I'm asking deep philosophical questions, or maybe reaching for a STEM concept slightly beyond my understanding, and that inevitably requires me to ask subquestions (eg "okay wait, what are Conformal Fields?"). Doing so still forces me to do a…

There is! If you click on the three dots menu of a response, there is a “Branch in new chat” option. I just discovered it today and feel like it’s new.

Oof. I won't be using this. The implementation is terrible: just forks a new tab in my browser (at least on Firefox). I want a horizontally scrolling view, clickable highlights that specify my subconversational contextual focus.

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Post by spectraldrift »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #453
doso wrote: post #242

Something'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.

They already did it with Google's transformer architecture- why not Google's open-source browser framework too? They're pretty much a fork of Google's good-faith open-source efforts at this point.

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Post by [deleted] »

gnarlouse wrote: post #488

I'm still shocked that there isn't basic functionality in chatgpt that allows you to fork conversations to have subtopical conversational threads off of a main one. For example, I'm asking deep philosophical questions, or maybe reaching for a STEM concept slightly beyond my understanding, and that inevitably requires me to ask subquestions (eg "okay wait, what are Conformal Fields?"). Doing so still forces me to do a…

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Post by mhitza »

jryio wrote: post #15

If you think this is useful... remember technology like this would make totalitarian leaders foam at the mouth. If you thought that ads are creepy, Atlas is a root level keylogger service. Why would you want an AI company scraping and recording all of your browser interactions. Yes Google already does this via Chrome. It's one thing to build a predictive model on your demographic, spending, location and income inform…

Microsoft Recall, but with this people would be opting into that feature.

Definitely improves and opens up new ad targeting opportunities for OpenAI.

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Post by mapontosevenths »

TranquilMarmot wrote: post #473
typon wrote: post #268

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It wasn't a few. There are literally thousands of films that never made the leap from VHS to DVD. My starting list was only a few hundred, but still it saved me hours.

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Post by waterTanuki »

mk89 wrote: post #322
nunez wrote: post #313

As a sales engineer, when I'm not pushing random PRs for random demos or infra I'm building, I'm searching for people on LinkedIn in hopes of getting introductions. I tested a really basic LinkedIn search on myself. Atlas confidently failed successfully [0]; Kagi [1] and Google [2] nailed it. This is a perfect example as to why I don't think LLMs should replace search engines any time soon. Search engines help you fi…

I disagree. With chatgpt I don't search, I ask. Chatgpt explains, I ask again, and refine and refine. Ask back for sources, etc. When in doubt, I copy/paste a statement and I search for it with Google. And then Google LLM kicks in. If it's consistent with chatgpt, I am still wanting to see the links/sources. If not, I notify chatgpt of the "wrong" information, and move on. 70-80% of search is dead. But of course sear…

> Chatgpt is the new way to get information on the internet, like it or not.

We aren't making it past the great filter as a species, like it or not.

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Post by Yondle »

bytesandbits wrote: post #234

I don't want an AI browser and don't understand the attractiveness of it. Like. What does it add that a normal browser + chatgpt extension doesn't? It is a gimmick to boost usage and token count and fake growth I think. This is the reason I dont trust Altman. He is all about fake growth.

Shiny thing, pump share value.

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Post by davorak »

rlander wrote: post #490
gnarlouse wrote: post #488

I'm still shocked that there isn't basic functionality in chatgpt that allows you to fork conversations to have subtopical conversational threads off of a main one. For example, I'm asking deep philosophical questions, or maybe reaching for a STEM concept slightly beyond my understanding, and that inevitably requires me to ask subquestions (eg "okay wait, what are Conformal Fields?"). Doing so still forces me to do a…

Maybe you haven’t seen this yet, but there is a (recent) option to fork a conversation when you click on the thee dots of a reply.

I think I have always been able to have branching conversations via editing a comment.

The interface remembers both the old and new conversation thread and you can switch between them.

It seems like the new "Branch in new chat" feature mostly creates a new chat at the top level rather then the existing functionality of editing a comment and branching in the same chat.

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Post by yalogin »

I actually see the value but this is giving too much information about every single thing i do to these ai companies. I don’t mind just opening up the ChatGPT app to ask questions as needed. For me these are the same class of applications like the honey browser extension but way way worse in terms of loss of data. Don’t believe for one second that your data is private.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Post by catigula »

Google is 1000x better positioned to transition into browser automation so there must be some other angle to this. OpenAI stands no chance in this market.

Edit: I am very stupid, this is clearly a data capture tool to learn how to do people's jobs. No other reason to build an entire browser.

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