“We’ve made some big upgrades to search on ChatGPIT when accessed through Atlas,” Ryan O’Rook, lead designer of OpenAI for the browser, said during the livestream. If a user asks for a movie review in the Atlas search bar, a chatbot-style answer will pop up first, rather than the more traditional collection of blue links users might expect when searching the web via Google.
Now, apart from that result, users can switch to other tabs to see website links, or images, or videos, or a collection of news stories related to their queries. It’s a bit of an inverse of the Google Chrome experience. Instead of search results being a collection of links with AI features added on top, AI is central in Chatbot Atlas, with website links or lists of image results as secondary.
Another feature highlighted by OpenAI in the livestream is Atlas’ ability to collect “browser memories.” The capability is optional, and is an iteration of ChatGPT’s existing memory tool that stores details about users based on their past interactions with the chatbot. The browser can remember what you’ve searched for in the past and use that data when suggesting topics of interest and tasks to be done, such as figuring out an online routine or returning to a website you’ve previously visited that might be helpful for a current project.
