USA: Opera has gotten on board with the ChatGPT hype. The business disclosed plans to include a chatbot-powered tool in the sidebar of its browser. The announcement was made just a few days after Microsoft unveiled the improved Edge and Bing with ChatGPT.
Due to its capacity to process prompts and generate responses that resemble human speech, the AI chatbot created by OpenAI became an overnight internet sensation.
With the new Edge, Microsoft recently demonstrated the capabilities of an AI-powered browser. Users can communicate with the new browser in its Chat section. The updated Edge is a perfect illustration of how ChatGPT can enhance browsing.
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The response to Edge's AI capabilities has prompted businesses like Opera to modify their browsers in a similar way.
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"Shorten" is the name of the new generative AI function in Opera. It represents the start of the company's larger strategy to incorporate AI tools into its browser. As the name implies, "Shorten" can use ChatGPT to create summaries of articles and webpages. The feature has not yet been released to the general public by the company. It made a demo of the feature's operation available.
According to the demo, you can turn on the feature by clicking the "Shorten" button next to the address bar on the right. A ChatGPT sidebar will then appear from the left when you do this. The article or webpage you are viewing will then be summarized in an orderly, bulleted format.
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Per Wetterdal, head of strategic partnerships and AI ecosystems at Opera, commented on the inclusion of generative AI tools in browsers: "We are excited to see the rapid roll-out of developer programs for solutions like Google Bard, for example, and are starting to build and roll-out new experiences in web browsing that not very long ago seemed impossible to achieve."
The ChatGPT integration in Opera is distinct from that in Edge. Both can sum up articles and webpages, but Edge's features go beyond that. It has a tool called "Compose" that can produce web content. The generated text can have its tone, format, and other features changed. Additionally, a tool called "Insights" offers pertinent data regarding a page.