The Opera web browser has announced the upcoming integration of ChatGPT to boost its experience with artificial intelligence. OpenAI’s technology will primarily be used to generate a short summary of any web page or article.
Since late 2022 and the outbreak of ChatGPT, all major tech companies have been on a war footing. Their new battle horse: artificial intelligence. It must be said that the conversational agent of OpenAI particularly impressed in its beginnings, despite a few small failures here and there.
But its capabilities are so likely to transform the way we surf the Internet and interact with browsers that several multinationals – Google, Microsoft – immediately set their sights on it. The Mountain View company has thus presented Bard, its in-house solution which has already caused it to lose 100 billion dollars because of a blunder.
Opera enters the dance
For its part, the Redmond group has partnered directly with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT on Bing and Edge. And because the more the merrier, a third little thief recently invited himself to the party, I named Opera. The Norwegian-born browser presented its ambitions in this area in a blog post.
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Opera Software has simply announced the upcoming integration of ChatGPT into its browser. Initially, the use will remain simple and precise: a “Shorten” button – which could be translated as “Summary” – will be available at the top right of your web page. By clicking on it, the AI will generate a short summary of a web page or article.
As the example video posted by Opera shows us, ChatGPT strives to summarize a press article in the form of a bulleted list. This feature will work on both PC and mobile. For the moment, no deployment date has been given by the group, which nevertheless indicated to The Verge a launch forSoon“.
Microsoft stays ahead
Here, Opera therefore enters the dance of browsers boosted with artificial intelligence, and even confronts Microsoft directly by partnering with OpenAI. Nevertheless, the Windows developer still retains a head start, since the functions integrated into Bing are not limited to summarizing pages – it is also capable of doing so.
Indeed, Microsoft will seek to exploit ChapGPT in its entirety thanks to the GPT-4 version, which should be much more efficient than the current iteration thanks to better constructed, faster and more human responses. In short: a real conversational agent that could change the way we browse the Internet.
Artificial intelligence is on everyone’s lips in the world of Tech, especially in recent days with the integration of ChatGPT in Microsoft Bing and Edge or the presentation of Google Bard. Who…
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