Not a chance I'd ever put this data-mining tool on any of my devices.
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OpenAI Launches 'ChatGPT Atlas' Browser to Compete with Safari and Chrome
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That's true, but an oversimplification that obscures the deeper technology at work. It doesn't predict words directly from other words. It translates them into abstract concepts and uses the relationships between those concepts to decide which word should come next. Statistics are used during training to extract those concepts and relationships from the library of text the LLM is built from.
Funny, these are the same kinds of comments people made back in 1992 when folks first dared to use their credit cards on the internet.
The people dismissing this are really blind. It's not about "chatting with your browser". It's about automating tasks and making ChatGPT more integrated with the browser in a way that Safari/Chrome would never allow. Rather than copy/pasting from brower to ChatGPT, it just has it built in. How is that bad?
Chrome has Gemini integrated now. Perplexity has Comet (great product by the way). And now this.
I really can't see how Apple can answer these with. They're really on the edge of becoming irrelevant in the AI space and it's just sad. Eventually, it will catch up with them as all they really care about is squeezing margin out of complacent iPhone customers.
Chrome has Gemini integrated now. Perplexity has Comet (great product by the way). And now this.
I really can't see how Apple can answer these with. They're really on the edge of becoming irrelevant in the AI space and it's just sad. Eventually, it will catch up with them as all they really care about is squeezing margin out of complacent iPhone customers.
I'll have a look at the browser, but I'll probably stay with Safari.
As for ChatGPT in general, I'm find it quite useful for a variety of things*. I have been using it more and more and using search engines less and less.
For instance I have a Chevrolet vehicle from 1990 that I've been putting work into and when I need to know something or find a part or tool, ChatGTP has had the answers within seconds. It's clearly written out, not obscured by ads, or other barriers to reading or finding the answers.
*ChatGPT can make mistakes as we know, and they disclose, and when something pops up that doesn't look right to me, I verify the information independently.
But overall, my experience has been a positive one and I've saved a lot of time using it versus traditional searching.
As for ChatGPT in general, I'm find it quite useful for a variety of things*. I have been using it more and more and using search engines less and less.
For instance I have a Chevrolet vehicle from 1990 that I've been putting work into and when I need to know something or find a part or tool, ChatGTP has had the answers within seconds. It's clearly written out, not obscured by ads, or other barriers to reading or finding the answers.
*ChatGPT can make mistakes as we know, and they disclose, and when something pops up that doesn't look right to me, I verify the information independently.
But overall, my experience has been a positive one and I've saved a lot of time using it versus traditional searching.
Among other things, I translate for a living. Sometimes when working on a highly technical text -- obscure financial statements, for example, or a report on accidents involving injection moulding machines -- I get stuck with a term that I find no English equivalent for in the dictionaries, terminology databases, accounting manuals, manufacturer's catalogues, etc. I consult.
When that happens, the next step is to go to Google and do a search on what I think might be the English term. It's happened any number of times that Google comes back with zero hits (i.e. term not found anywhere) but the AI answer box presents the non-existent term with a dictionary definition, as though it's in common use.
Not ready for prime time, at least in my line of business.
(I'm aware that Google doesn't use ChatGPT. But the same thing happens when I search with DuckDuckGo and its Search Assist AI feature. Ergo, the problem isn't with the brand but with AI in general.)
When that happens, the next step is to go to Google and do a search on what I think might be the English term. It's happened any number of times that Google comes back with zero hits (i.e. term not found anywhere) but the AI answer box presents the non-existent term with a dictionary definition, as though it's in common use.
Not ready for prime time, at least in my line of business.
(I'm aware that Google doesn't use ChatGPT. But the same thing happens when I search with DuckDuckGo and its Search Assist AI feature. Ergo, the problem isn't with the brand but with AI in general.)
AI doesn't understand the concept of saying, "I don't know."
I expect safari to have similar functionality next year. It already has rudimentary summary features.
And now the spandex is included in the waistband of jeans. The novelty of AI may wear off, but it won't be going away soon. It will continue to advance and it will find its proper applications. One of those could be as a "para-therapist".
With every phone on earth ringing simultaneously.
"Hey Chat, please don't sell my data."
ChatGPT: "Sorry, I can't do that."
ChatGPT: "Sorry, I can't do that."
I’m going to try it as a tool. It’s not like I’m forced to use it or anything. I do find the Research tool in Google Gemini to be incredibly useful to pull sources and compile personal guides to things I do regularly (or discover apps or find specific MacRumors threads I find helpful, Daring Fireball posts I can’t remember off hand but remember the topic to)
Remember when web searches were good, and actually gave results?
Well instead of that, we're going forward with a hallucinating power hungry monstrosity that boils the oceans while telling you how many rocks you should eat.
Goodbye Humans! Beep boop!
Well instead of that, we're going forward with a hallucinating power hungry monstrosity that boils the oceans while telling you how many rocks you should eat.
Goodbye Humans! Beep boop!
