We all understand browsers and we all use them in our day-to-day life. However, browsers as we know it have been the same for a long, long time.
There are tabs and then there is a search bar and an address bar, as well as multiple links, and the main thing to understand here is that everything is quite manual.
You have to do the search yourself, and you have to do the search regarding products and everything else yourself.
But what if there was one of the most powerful LLMs out there to help you do the heavy lifting right inside your browser, where you could simply tell it to do something like it’s a personal secretary and delegate tasks to it and it would do the rest?
Well, OpenAI did just that with their ChatGPT Atlas browser and we are here to talk all about it and why it will redefine web browsing forever.
Let’s start by understanding what Atlas is and then we can move on to the details on why this is revolutionary.
What is ChatGPT Atlas by OpenAI?
Simply put, ChatGPT Atlas is an AI-first web browser that has been specifically designed to bridge the gap between AI and browsing by bringing ChatGPT into everything you do on a browser.
That is exactly how ChatGPT Atlas has been created because, unlike regular browsers, which simply allow you to visit and load pages, ChatGPT Atlas is going to actually understand what is on the page and what you want it to do for you.
ChatGPT Atlas will help you summarise pages and answer questions and the most important bit about it is that it will actually be able to perform tasks for you in Agent Mode.
Using this browser would give you the same kind of experience, sort of like asking someone to do a particular kind of research for you instead of doing the research yourself.
It will do all that with the functionality of ChatGPT baked in, for instance, this browser can help you write an email and post it itself and it can also help you change the wording of the email as well.
We can define it more of as an assistant rather than a browser because it will remember everything you did and you can simply ask it to continue doing something.
For instance, you can ask it to go to any website and look for a certain kind of product and add it to the cart and even buy it for you, or you can simply pause the process and continue the next day.
So, in short, it can:
Summarise pages (including videos).
Book flights, movies, concerts, etc.
Translate content universally.
Compare products and buy them for you.
Refer to your docs and calendars and work accordingly.
Organise things across tabs.
Conduct deep research.
Create designs in Canva for you.
Etc
What Makes ChatGPT Atlas Different?
ChatGPT Everywhere
If you like using ChatGPT, then you are going to love this browser because this browser is literally if ChatGPT had a browser and that is exactly what it will enable you to do.
Atlas has excellent integration with ChatGPT in the form of a sidebar, which will allow you to activate it on any page to do anything you want.
This opens up numerous opportunities for you, as you can simply be on a page and ask ChatGPT to do all the research about the page for you.
For instance, you can be on a page like Amazon and you can ask the assistant to find out the best deal or find out something related to a product.
This basically enables you to have an assistant that is ready to compare products for you and summarise points, as well as read reviews and give you an honest opinion all the time.
This is important because people have always wanted a kind of ChatGPT functionality on their browser, like Chrome, as can be seen in this Reddit post and countless others, but OpenAI never released any official extension for any other browser as such.
Think of Atlas like the official extension that comes with its own excellent browser, too.
Agent Mode
Finding stuff on a page is fascinating but actually asking the browser to do things on a page is taking web browsing to the next level and that is exactly why Atlas will redefine browsing for everyone. We are talking about Agent Mode, the most remarkable feature of this browser.
Agent Mode is simple to understand; it is an agent or your personal assistant that is ready to do things for you and understand simple English prompts in order to do that.
You can simply open the sidebar and turn on agent mode and ask it to get you flights from New York to London and ask it for business class seats and even specify your budget or an airline and ask it to look at certain websites and find the best deal and book a flight on a certain date (it helps being very specific).
It will do that for you.
Want to buy the best sneakers at the best deal? Agent Mode can do that as well.
What’s mind-blowing about this is that you can even ask it to create designs for you in Canva.
Memory
Atlas comes with Memory, which is an optional feature but if you turn it on, it will remember all your activity so that you can simply ask it for something rather than having to go into history and keep on scrolling.
This used to be one of the major drawbacks of any traditional browser, in that you had to do the manual searching for things and the browser was simply not contextually aware if you searched for something.
Memory will let you continue a project you left off a few months ago and if you are concerned about privacy, then you can simply turn it off.
The reason why this is a remarkable feature is that the browser will now actually be able to understand any activity you are trying to accomplish, rather than simply providing you a list of pages you have visited.
Cross-Platform
While, as of writing this blog, ChatGPT Atlas is only available on macOS, but there are plans for it to be released on Windows and iOS as well and Android very soon.
ChatGPT fans who do not use macOS, however, did not take this too kindly.
This has even given rise to multiple speculations regarding the browser from the fans as well, with some people even recommending others to not install the browser for at least one or two years.
Focus on Privacy
While this is common knowledge, when an AI assistant-based company is creating an AI-integrated browser, it will not be the ideal example of the most private and secure browsing experience because the AI agent, by nature, will need to see what’s on the page in order to help you out.
But OpenAI nonetheless is trying to do their part in order to make sure privacy is front and centre and they are doing this with a simple toggle for every page.
You can find this toggle at the top of each page and you can simply turn off the ChatGPT toggle if you do not want to see what is on the page. The implementation is very simple and straightforward.
The idea behind this is that you should make it a practice to turn it off on sensitive pages, such as bank dashboards and other areas where privacy is paramount.
We hope you now understand why ChatGPT Atlas has the potential to be such a game-changer in the web browsing industry and why you should try it out yourself.
If you are planning on trying it out and you happen to use a MacBook, then we would highly suggest you to try it out and see the functionality for yourself.
And if you are someone willing to integrate ChatGPT and all its functionality in your website or apps and you are looking for the most experienced name in the industry capable of AI-based integration and implementation, we are here for you.
We are Think To Share and we would love to help you out with all your AI needs, no matter the LLM and no matter the application.
We welcome you to visit our website and check out everything we do.
