AI chatbots are coming to web browsers in a big way - The Verge

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AI chatbots are coming to web browsers in a big way - The Verge

AI assistants are shaping up to be the biggest thing in browsers since the tab was invented. Companies big and small are looking for ways to bring chatbots into your experience but also to go even deeper than that. Pretty soon, your browser might be able to automatically change the way a page looks and works and even rewrite the words on the page to suit your particular needs.  One of the most ambitious implementations I’ve seen is from a company called SigmaOS, which bills itself as a browser for the ultra-productive set. It has lots of organization tools and some truly wacky ideas about keyboard shortcuts and tab management — and now, it’s launching a new AI assistant called Airis that works across the browser. (It’s pronounced like “iris” but with AI, because you gotta have AI, you know?) What Airis does, essentially, is let you ask questions about a webpage. You can highlight a name or a phrase, right-click, and select “ask Airis” to look up whatever you’ve selected. It then attempts to explain that name, concept, phrase, or whatever in the context of the page you’re looking at.  If I were to ask, say, ChatGPT who Nikola Jokić is, I’d get an overview of the Serbian NBA superstar. But when I asked Airis about Nikola Jokić on an ESPN story previewing the NBA finals, it told me that “the author discusses how Jokic’s pick-and-roll with Jamal Murray is an almost unstoppable combination.” There are plenty of AI-based ways to summarize a webpage, but this one does it in the exact context I’m looking for. I can also ask Airis follow-up questions — who does this author think is going to win the championship? — and get answers. The Airis assistant does an impressive job of understanding a webpage and answering questions about it. Image: SigmaOS / David Pierce “I don’t have to write a massive, complex ChatGPT prompt saying I want to create an Arrabbiata,” says Mahyad Ghassemibouyaghchi, SigmaOS’s CEO. “I can just ask. You already know the context, I don’t need to do extra.” Because the browser knows the page I’m looking at, it can infer a huge amount of information from a simple prompt. The way Ghassemibouyaghchi describes Airis’ tech is simple and clever: it quickly ingests and understands the important parts of a webpage, pairs that information with your question to form a complex prompt, sends that prompt to OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model, and then feeds back the responses. You don’t have to do any prompt engineering because your question plus the webpage contains more than enough information. As he explains, Ghassemibouyaghchi shows me a demo of Airis that includes summarizing the four main points of a thinky business article and pulling the ingredients out of a very long recipe page. “What we’re doing is looking at it with our algorithm, building a hierarchy, and saying, ‘Okay, what are the most important parts for this person to understand?’ It’s like trying to explain to a five-year-old: you need to give the most important simple information, but don’t omit anything important.” Airis can also help you edit and rewrite text, similar to the Google Duet and Microsoft Copilot tools, but because it’s built into a browser, it works with any text box on the internet. It can even rewrite existing webpages: at one point in our demo, Ghassemibouyaghchi loads the Wikipedia page for “browser wars” and clicks a menu button titled, “Make it simpler.” The page suddenly began to morph and change, shrinking fairly dramatically to make it an easier read. Like all of the Airis demos, it wasn’t perfect; it dropped some important details and turned a few sentences into gibberish. The finished product was also still pretty long. But it more or less did the job. SigmaOS is far from the only company looking for ways to attach AI to your browsing experience. Microsoft is adding a Bing sidebar to its Edge browser, putting both search and chatbots one click away, and it’s also rolling out tools you can use to summarize or rewrite webpages. Opera recently launched its own rewriting and summarizing tools, along with a dedicated sidebar for accessing ChatGPT and other bots.  The new Edge sidebar is all about easy access to AI. Image: Microsoft Browsers are going to be an important place for AI tools in part just because they’re so popular. Especially on desktops and lap...