According to Sam Altman, your web browser is outdated. “AI represents a rare, once-a-decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be,” OpenAI’s CEO said yesterday when announcing the company’s latest product: ChatGPT Atlas.
In this new AI-powered browser, ChatGPT becomes the central mechanism for surfing the internet. From any webpage in Atlas, you can click an “Ask ChatGPT” button to open a side conversation with the chatbot. Want cooking inspiration? Atlas can pull from recipes you’ve recently viewed through its “browser memories” feature—no need to personally dig up the NYT Cooking recipe you opened and closed last week. And as Altman and his colleagues were eager to show off while introducing Atlas yesterday, the browser has an “agent” mode, in which ChatGPT can use the web for you. For instance, it can, in theory, research and (with your permission) book a vacation.
Given all of these big promises, I was stru
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