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ChatGPT Can Be Used as Default Safari Search Engine With New Extension

surferfb said:
I’m not old enough to remember, but were there a lot of tech-forward people going around saying “I don’t want anything to do with this newfangled ‘internet’ thing” in the early 90s?

Like, I understand if you haven’t figured out a regular use for it, but so many people on here act like AI is some sort of scam that it generally confuses me.
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I don't know about tech-forward people but yes. BBS are all we need or MSN/AOL/CompuServe are 'safe' and the internet is the Wild West was a common refrain I heard.

I view AI a lot like I did when google first came out, I had to learn google-fu. Google got much better over time, but early on, knowing how to Google was a valuable skill. The AI tools are similar in that knowing how to prompt, and what they are good at or not is the new and growing skill. And the only way to learn that skill is to use the tools. I'm actually learning from the reasoning models. For example, if I ask it to grammar check some writing it now explains why with links to more information instead of just correcting the text. Similar to language translations.

TLDR; ignore the hype, and treat LLMs/AI as a new tool. I bet many can find a ton of value.
 
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Reason077 said:
If only iOS had a dark mode... 🤔
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Ha, you mean the mode that was introduced as an option to the amateurish-draft-looking-all-whiteout mode? Usually a Dark mode’s implementation often brings the same major readability shortcoming as the standard mode: Too little contrast between various elements on the screen. Many whiteout standard mode and Dark mode implementations have everything blending together, abandoning those subtle shading/color/contrast differentiation cues that make for a super intuitive experience. It’s like a college notebook without lines, or having the wardrobe of a Spy vs Spy character.

Dark mode arrived after interface designs went so bright white-out and low-contrast. Think about it. :)
 
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jz0309 said:
Business use aside - how does “genAI” add value to your personal life? It doesn’t for me, yet, and until that changes I have no interest.
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Things in my personal life genAI has helped me with in the past week:
  • Research activities that would appeal to my kid for a potential trip to Europe this summer
  • Identifying the cause of and fixing a weird error message I was getting on my home server
  • Helped me practice a foreign language
  • Found the correct instruction manual for my fridge
  • Provided me with a good coffee recipe for a very lightly roasted coffee.
  • Gave me questions to ask a potential contractor about a project we’re doing in my house
In short, I use it a lot as a “research intern”. Could I do a lot of these on my own? Absolutely. But why would I bother when these meet the mail for what I need and do them way faster than I would.
 
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OpenAI today updated the ChatGPT app to add a new Safari Extension that allows ChatGPT to be used as the default search engine for searches made through the Safari search bar.

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After updating to the latest version of the ChatGPT app, the ChatGPT Search Extension can be enabled in the Safari section of the Settings app. Turning it on directs all queries typed in to the Safari search bar to ChatGPT Search instead of Google or whatever your default search engine is set to.

The extension needs permission to access Google.com or the site for your default search engine, but when granted, any search you type in is redirected to ChatGPT's search feature rather than going through the default in your Safari settings.


There is no option to set ChatGPT as a preferred search engine, but the extension serves as a workaround.

Article Link: ChatGPT Can Be Used as Default Safari Search Engine With New Extension
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When you search on Google you don’t get an answer, you get a bunch of links - the first of which are ads and then a ton that may or may not answer your question,
MacRumors said:


OpenAI today updated the ChatGPT app to add a new Safari Extension that allows ChatGPT to be used as the default search engine for searches made through the Safari search bar.

chatgpt-search-default.jpg

After updating to the latest version of the ChatGPT app, the ChatGPT Search Extension can be enabled in the Safari section of the Settings app. Turning it on directs all queries typed in to the Safari search bar to ChatGPT Search instead of Google or whatever your default search engine is set to.

The extension needs permission to access Google.com or the site for your default search engine, but when granted, any search you type in is redirected to ChatGPT's search feature rather than going through the default in your Safari settings.


There is no option to set ChatGPT as a preferred search engine, but the extension serves as a workaround.

Article Link: ChatGPT Can Be Used as Default Safari Search Engine With New Extension
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When you search with a traditional search engine you get links (the first of which are ads) that you have to search through yourself to find your answer, an AI will just give you the answer. It’s faster and more accurate.
 
surferfb said:
But if AI is good enough to do it for you (which it is in a lot of, but obviously not all, cases), why would you waste the time?

Like, I know how to do long division by hand, but why would I do that when calculators exist.
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Don't know what your profession is, but I'm sure AI can replace you (now or the near future), do better job than you and be much more efficient… so why does your employer need you?
 
surferfb said:
Things in my personal life genAI has helped me with in the past week:
  • Research activities that would appeal to my kid for a potential trip to Europe this summer
  • Identifying the cause of and fixing a weird error message I was getting on my home server
  • Helped me practice a foreign language
  • Found the correct instruction manual for my fridge
  • Provided me with a good coffee recipe for a very lightly roasted coffee.
  • Gave me questions to ask a potential contractor about a project we’re doing in my house
In short, I use it a lot as a “research intern”. Could I do a lot of these on my own? Absolutely. But why would I bother when these meet the mail for what I need and do them way faster than I would.
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All good examples.

I was starting a new game this weekend and now sure which one. I gave AI the titles of the game I was considering and a quick overview of the games that I liked, and asked it to provide me recommendations, including information about the state of the games (quality/bugs). It gave me a great comparison of the games, contrasted the styles, and summarized the bug/patch status for each. Amazing.

I also had it shop around for cheaper Internet service for me.

And at work I sometimes work with big data sets and AI has been a game changer in that regard too.

Still in its infancy, but I find it hugely beneficial.
 
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surferfb said:
Things in my personal life genAI has helped me with in the past week:
  • Research activities that would appeal to my kid for a potential trip to Europe this summer
  • Identifying the cause of and fixing a weird error message I was getting on my home server
  • Helped me practice a foreign language
  • Found the correct instruction manual for my fridge
  • Provided me with a good coffee recipe for a very lightly roasted coffee.
  • Gave me questions to ask a potential contractor about a project we’re doing in my house
In short, I use it a lot as a “research intern”. Could I do a lot of these on my own? Absolutely. But why would I bother when these meet the mail for what I need and do them way faster than I would.
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Good for you.
 
Why would anyone want to use something that constantly makes things up as a search engine is beyond me.
 
geta said:
Don't know what your profession is, but I'm sure AI can replace you (now or the near future), do better job than you and be much more efficient… so why does your employer need you?
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It's interesting to think about. Will some jobs go away? Sure. But, I think for many jobs AI will be more like augmentation than replacement. We'll see even more productivity gains as people can create more and faster. This is why I think it's important to learn how to use AI to your advantage. Think single person, billion dollar companies.

www.forbes.com

The Future Is Solo: AI Is Creating Billion-Dollar One-Person Companies

AI is revolutionizing entrepreneurship, enabling solo founders to build billion-dollar companies. Explore how tech tools replace teams and redefine success
www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
 
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I’ll take “Things that bring us one step closer to living in idiocracy” for 100
 
mdatwood said:
It's interesting to think about. Will some jobs go away? Sure. But, I think for many jobs AI will be more like augmentation than replacement. We'll see even more productivity gains as people can create more and faster. This is why I think it's important to learn how to use AI to your advantage. Think single person, billion dollar companies.

www.forbes.com

The Future Is Solo: AI Is Creating Billion-Dollar One-Person Companies

AI is revolutionizing entrepreneurship, enabling solo founders to build billion-dollar companies. Explore how tech tools replace teams and redefine success
www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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So on one hand you recognize that a single person billion dollar company is possible, but you don’t realize how incredibly dangerous and damaging that would be to society?
 
jz0309 said:
Cause I don’t want anything to do with “artificial intelligence” and even less with that company.
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Can you find me the answer to, I want to send a parcel from Malaysia to NL, the parcel is 7000 grams, which zone is NL in, how much will it cost me, how long will it take by surface mail, is it insured and if not how much will it cost me.

Believe me, ChatGPT provided me with all the correct answers, in mere seconds.

And yesterday it wrote me a letter for the local town hall, all perfectly done, just had to change the names and addresses I gave it.

Can you do better?
 
Tozovac said:
Ha, you mean the mode that was introduced as an option to the amateurish-draft-looking-all-whiteout mode? Usually a Dark mode’s implementation often brings the same major readability shortcoming as the standard mode: Too little contrast between various elements on the screen. Many whiteout standard mode and Dark mode implementations have everything blending together, abandoning those subtle shading/color/contrast differentiation cues that make for a super intuitive experience. It’s like a college notebook without lines, or having the wardrobe of a Spy vs Spy character.

Dark mode arrived after interface designs went so bright white-out and low-contrast. Think about it. :)
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I've been using Dark Mode pretty exclusively since it came out on both macOS and iOS. I like it a lot. White interfaces look pretty weird to me now and I wouldn't go back.

You still come across the odd app that doesn't support Dark Mode and they look very weird and annoying.
 
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maxoakland said:
So on one hand you recognize that a single person billion dollar company is possible, but you don’t realize how incredibly dangerous and damaging that would be to society?
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Is it the amount? Because the internet lets individuals today make million dollar businesses solo. Is it the fact it can make individuals so incredibly productive? Or that they can operate independently? The internet brought all these things and society has fallen apart.

I supposed there will always be populations of people who eschew technology, but to argue against something because it would increase productivity too much is not a solution. "I don't want a warp drive, can you imagine how dangerous and damaging that would be to our society?"
 
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geta said:
Don't know what your profession is, but I'm sure AI can replace you (now or the near future), do better job than you and be much more efficient… so why does your employer need you?
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If—and it’s a big if—AI can do a better job at something, then why should we artificially keep some professions around?

We don’t have a lot of blacksmiths, candlestick makers, and cigarette girls around these days either—the world moves on. It’s like delaying/stopping investment in new energy sources to prop up oil/gas/coal mining jobs. Silly.
 
anais.v said:
When you search with a traditional search engine you get links (the first of which are ads) that you have to search through yourself to find your answer, an AI will just give you the answer. It’s faster and more accurate.
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Until all the investors start requiring some payback from these companies, and then AI will start spouting ads too. It won’t be long.
 
geta said:
Don't know what your profession is, but I'm sure AI can replace you (now or the near future), do better job than you and be much more efficient… so why does your employer need you?
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I’m not particularly worried about that. While there absolutely will be job losses due to AI, there will be a lot more new jobs that are enabled by it.

We lost a lot of jobs with the rise of computers - remember “computer” used to be a job title. There were entire offices full of bookkeepers, for example.

en.m.wikipedia.org

Computer (occupation) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org en.m.wikipedia.org
 
ChatGPT search engine? LOL They are a failure on that front.

I had to cut them off from crawling my web sites since they were grabbing every video, image etc. every single thing, several times over on multiple days, pulling over 800GB in two days alone and started coming back for more on a third! When you only have 2TB of media bandwidth a month, that is some serious GPT bot activity in only two days, leaving nothing for real users.

The media server company confirmed it was them and the IP and I cut off their IP and blocked them on multiple fronts on all web sites. They are toast and not getting one sniff of anything from anything I have control over, period. And if they try to get around that, I have more where that came from! Nightmare for anyone who owns a web site and has media they are powering themselves in any way. Zero respect left for OpenAI. No bot, even the bad ones, operate like that, ever.
 
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