OpenAI Adds SearchGPT Option to Apple's Shortcuts App

[MacRumors]

The newest version of the ChatGPT app from OpenAI adds a new "Open SearchGPT" option to the Shortcuts app on the iPhone and iPad. For those that have access to SearchGPT, tapping on the shortcut launches the ChatGPT app and invokes the web search feature.

OpenAI added ChatGPT Search to ChatGPT in late October, introducing improved AI-based internet searches. SearchGPT is meant to search the web "in a much better way than before," offering up links to relevant web sources along with more contextual information and support for follow-up questions.

SearchGPT is available to those who have ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Teams, with OpenAI planning to roll out support to free users in the coming months.

To access the SearchGPT action in Shortcuts, you'll need the latest version of the ChatGPT app, which was released yesterday.

Article Link: OpenAI Adds SearchGPT Option to Apple's Shortcuts App

 

[Jay Tee]

Finally, ChatGPT can officially help settle debates and find the best pizza spot nearby—all without leaving the app. Siri better watch her back!

 

[flybass]

If Apple allowed openAI an api, they could build a better Apple intelligence experience for us.

 

[Martin Bland]

I hope it is better implemented than ChatGPT's "Ask ChatGPT" shortcut. Every time I've tried to use it in any kind of automation, it invariably complains of not being logged in, and to open the ChatGPT app to login again. When I open the app, it doesn't force a login, it just opens with a prompt as usual. After opening the app, the shortcut works. For a few minutes at least. The result is that the shortcut is completely unusable because it breaks each and every time it is actually needed in an automation.

 

[Jxdawg]

ChatGPT's "Ask ChatGPT" shortcut. Every time I've tried to use it in any kind of automation, it invariably complains of not being logged in, and to open the ChatGPT app to login again. When I open the app, it doesn't force a login, it just

Glad I’m not the only one. Several updates later and STILL this persists.

 

[Plutonius]

If you have two iPhones running ChatGPT, I wonder if you can get them arguing with each other .

 

[AstroRob]

Oh great. Even easier ways to find information statistically assembled by a machine learning algorithm (please don't call this stuff "intelligence") with no comprehension. Now we can just accept answers from the software without a clue from which illegally-scraped information sources are blended into the response.

Answers provided without the context of the source sites & writers, from a system that has been repeatedly proven to be unreliable at rates that should even make Siri blush, are arguably worse than having no answers at all.

Internet searches may take a few more inconvenient steps to execute, but the quality and value of the answers are vastly better. This is especially true if you compare results from multiple sources with known biases. But LLMs take all of that context away, and just spit out information lacking in the nuances that give it clarity.

 

[EU-Regulations]

Why smartphones do not make us smarter and why Artificial Intelligence is making nobody more intelligent?

I guess the thrill lies in the personality of the fanboy adapting tech that promises something the fanboy does not own himself.

And those people give away any remaining bit of Privacy to get a new feature which is almost useless.

The source for stupid decisions can be found in consumers trying to compensate their very own shortcomings.

Basically these devices are simulators for real life experiences - and always leave us with a vacuum, a feeling of missing out.

I miss the times when we asked for directions, but maybe I am just old?

 

[mdatwood]

Oh great. Even easier ways to find information statistically assembled by a machine learning algorithm (please don't call this stuff "intelligence") with no comprehension. Now we can just accept answers from the software without a clue from which illegally-scraped information sources are blended into the response.

Answers provided without the context of the source sites & writers, from a system that has been repeatedly proven to be unreliable at rates that should even make Siri blush, are arguably worse than having no answers at all.

Internet searches may take a few more inconvenient steps to execute, but the quality and value of the answers are vastly better. This is especially true if you compare results from multiple sources with known biases. But LLMs take all of that context away, and just spit out information lacking in the nuances that give it clarity.

Honestly, this rant sounds much like what I used to hear when the internet was becoming a thing. "Books are the only real place to find information", "There no context on that web page", "how do you know if what's on that web page is true?!", etc... But one lesson remains, be critical of anything you read. Google searches vs. LLMs don't change that fact.

 

[Ad47uk]

Honestly, this rant sounds much like what I used to hear when the internet was becoming a thing. "Books are the only real place to find information", "There no context on that web page", "how do you know if what's on that web page is true?!", etc... But one lesson remains, be critical of anything you read. Google searches vs. LLMs don't change that fact.

But they were correct about not knowing what is true or false and with this AI rubbish, it will only get worse. While the internet is a good source of information abd certainly more useful now that we have it in our pocket, we still need to be careful, even more so these days.

 

[TechnoTiger3000]

Why smartphones do not make us smarter and why Artificial Intelligence is making nobody more intelligent?

I guess the thrill lies in the personality of the fanboy adapting tech that promises something the fanboy does not own himself.

And those people give away any remaining bit of Privacy to get a new feature which is almost useless.

The source for stupid decisions can be found in consumers trying to compensate their very own shortcomings.

Basically these devices are simulators for real life experiences - and always leave us with a vacuum, a feeling of missing out.

I miss the times when we asked for directions, but maybe I am just old?

And why don’t calculators make us better at mental arithmetic? They are tools, not teachers.

I agree with you that tech is making human connection more optional, but let’s not romanticize the past too much. Nostalgia oversimplifies things and leaves us vulnerable to conservative regressive agendas. Just like after the industrial revolution, I believe we need regulation to keep people safe. The neoliberal mindset of allowing companies to exploit humans without restriction is causing more harm than the new tools. Technology is not the enemy, the issue lies in how it is designed to prioritize profit over well-being and destroy genuine human connection in the process.

 

[KeithBN]

Does their search still do the ChatGPT thing of just outright making stuff up if it doesn’t know, and presenting it as a real answer anyway?

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

I added Voice GPT search to replace my camera button on my lock screen ages go. Swipe to camera still works. Getting wrong answers is now more convenient than ever.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

If Apple allowed openAI an api, they could build a better Apple intelligence experience for us.

As long as I could keep it disabled, that's fine I guess. I want nothing to do with openAI and would rather not send them traffic but don't want to cripple my device, either.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

It would be nice if articles referring to the latest version of an app would also tell you what that latest version number is. In this case, it seems to be 1.2024.317, since that's what my ChatGPT app is now at, and checking for updates tells me it's the latest version.

Anyway, the new "Works with Apps" option of the ChatGPT macOS app stopped working for me after I updated to macOS 15.2 beta 4, though I still have all the settings active for it. It can no longer read the contents of open TextEdit or Terminal windows, though this version of ChatGPT was able to before the macOS beta 4 update. I'm guessing a new version of the ChatGPT app needs to be released to fix this.

 

[DailySlow]

But "consumers trying to compensate their very own shortcomings." is the market. It moves a lot of product, no?

 

[shadowboi]

 

[SBlue1]

Why smartphones do not make us smarter and why Artificial Intelligence is making nobody more intelligent?

I guess the thrill lies in the personality of the fanboy adapting tech that promises something the fanboy does not own himself.

And those people give away any remaining bit of Privacy to get a new feature which is almost useless.

The source for stupid decisions can be found in consumers trying to compensate their very own shortcomings.

Basically these devices are simulators for real life experiences - and always leave us with a vacuum, a feeling of missing out.

I miss the times when we asked for directions, but maybe I am just old?

Oh wow, are you sure there is not something deeper going on with you? I hope you are just having a bad day.

Technology is just here to make our lives easier. Relax.

 

[dannys1]

If you have two iPhones running ChatGPT, I wonder if you can get them arguing with each other .

You could - there's a guy on Youtube that got two phones and ask them to design a new language to speak to each other.

 

[dannys1]

Does their search still do the ChatGPT thing of just outright making stuff up if it doesn’t know, and presenting it as a real answer anyway?

To be honest it's been a lot better at not hallucinating for a long time, but the search looks online for resources and then references them in links so it's as accurate as the data it accesses.

 

[mdatwood]

But they were correct about not knowing what is true or false

Welcome to the internet. It's full of false information and we still find it useful. Just like many of us learned 'google-fu' years ago to extract what we wanted search, learning how to leverage LLMs will be an equally useful skill.

 

[3xBoom]

I added Voice GPT search to replace my camera button on my lock screen ages go. Swipe to camera still works. Getting wrong answers is now more convenient than ever.

how did you do that?

Edit: Never mind. I thought you meant the physical control switch not the one on the screen.

 

[EU-Regulations]

Oh wow, are you sure there is not something deeper going on with you? I hope you are just having a bad day.

Technology is just here to make our lives easier. Relax.

Fanboy warning.

 

[Ad47uk]

Welcome to the internet. It's full of false information and we still find it useful. Just like many of us learned 'google-fu' years ago to extract what we wanted search, learning how to leverage LLMs will be an equally useful skill.

I have been using the internet for many years, since dial up days and before that BBS, but over the last few years it has got worse.

I use Duck duck Go for search, it does what I need, I don't require ChatGPT or anything like it

 

[Ad47uk]

Oh wow, are you sure there is not something deeper going on with you? I hope you are just having a bad day.

Technology is just here to make our lives easier. Relax.

You are funny, technology may be here to make out lives easier, but a lot of the time it don't, because the old ways of doing things are going and while it may have been slower, it was more reliable.

Our so-called AI stock taking system at work, which is 4 months old, have gone belly up and have been for nearly a week and now, is making things more of a pain.