"The AI industry certainly wants you to believe that they do, just as it promised autonomous AI "agents" could automate tasks on your computer. But at present, they don't seem to be all that helpful. The Verge recently tested a bunch of these chatbot-integrated browsers, and came away totally unimpressed. A common theme throughout was that the browsers were janky and at times infuriatingly slow. And despite AI's promise of providing incredible automation, using them took a lot of effort and trial and error."
"In October, OpenAI unveiled its new AI browser Atlas, which is built with its chatbot ChatGPT at its center. It brought the still fairly niche realm of AI browsers into the spotlight and suggested that going forward they'll be another important battleground for the tech. Its competitors include Perplexity's Comet, which first released in July, and The Browser Company's Dia, which debuted in June."
AI browsers place chatbots at the center of web navigation and promote agentic automation. OpenAI released Atlas, while Perplexity's Comet and The Browser Company's Dia offer competing experiences; mainstream browsers add Gemini and Copilot features. Early hands-on evaluations revealed janky interfaces, slow performance, and frequent failures to automate tasks. Common tasks like email summarization required repeated prompt refinement and still produced unhelpful summaries and irrelevant flags. The need to craft precise prompts undermines promised convenience, and current AI browser implementations often demand significant user effort rather than delivering seamless automation.
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