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- Understand how AI agents can reduce toil and improve efficiency, potentially impacting online workflows and customer interactions.
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- Discover how future browsers could offer conversational interfaces and automate tedious online tasks, making the web more helpful.
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ChatGPT Atlas and the next era of web browsing - Episode 9
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The OpenAI Podcast's Episode 9 features Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher discussing ChatGPT Atlas, a new browser concept. They explore how AI transforms web browsing, enabling conversational tabs and automated task completion. The episode details Atlas's development, its unique features like scrolling tabs and Side Chat, and future visions for an agentic web.
Imagine a web browser that understands you. This episode explains ChatGPT Atlas, where you can talk to tabs and have AI agents do tedious online jobs for you. It's about making the internet more helpful and less work.
This episode offers insight into how AI could fundamentally change web browsing. It's for anyone interested in the future of the internet and user interfaces. Listeners will learn about OpenAI's approach to integrating AI into everyday tools, moving beyond simple search to proactive agents. This aligns with the broader trend of frontier labs developing more capable AI systems that can interact with and manipulate digital environments.
- HostAndrew Mayne
- GuestBen GoodgerOpenAI
- GuestDarin FisherOpenAI
- Episode Title: ChatGPT Atlas and the next era of web browsing - Episode 9
- Show: The OpenAI Podcast
- Length: 74 minutes
- Guests: Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher
- Key Feature: Side Chat in action: summarize, shop, build forms
- Real-world Agent Win: cloud bill, medical results
How will the internet feel when your browser can actually help do things for you? OpenAI’s Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher, whose past work shaped some of the most popular modern browsers, dive into the making of ChatGPT Atlas. They explore how AI changes what a browser can be, from tabs you can talk to, to agents that take over tedious tasks. Learn more about the decisions they made along the way and what’s coming next.
- 00:00:45 What is Atlas?
- 00:03:34 The state of browsers and AI on the web
- 00:13:55 Under the hood: why browsers are hard (OWL, rendering)
- 00:22:00 Building with AI: Codex, cross-language, Swift on Windows
- 00:33:39 Search in Atlas: one box plus model response
- 00:41:28 Favorite features: scrolling tabs and tab search
- 00:45:23 Side Chat in action: summarize, shop, build forms
- 00:46:59 Real-world wins with Agent (cloud bill, medical results)
- 00:52:45 Why Chromium? Compatibility and extensions
- 01:07:57 Five-year vision: an agentic web and reduced toil
- 01:13:11 Power tips and closing remarks
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Questions people ask
- What is ChatGPT Atlas?
- ChatGPT Atlas is a new browser concept from OpenAI that integrates AI to make the internet more interactive and automate tasks.
- What are some features of Atlas?
- Features include conversational tabs, agents for tedious tasks, scrolling tabs, tab search, and a Side Chat function for summarization and form building.
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