"OpenAI didn't plan to make a browser. Not at first, anyway. But ever since the company launched ChatGPT, it started to see lots of users do the same thing. "You'd have this tab open on chatgpt.com, and you'd be working on something else somewhere in your browser," says Adam Fry, a product lead on the ChatGPT team. "And people are doing this behavior where they're copying and pasting back and forth with ChatGPT. Hey, here's what I'm working on, can you help me with this?""
"Your web browser is practically guaranteed to be the most-used app on your computer. It's definitely the only one that can access your email, your bank accounts, your confidential work spreadsheets, and your doomscrolling platforms of choice. It's the richest source of information about you, your activity, and your life. It is, as Fry puts it, "the operating system for your life.""
OpenAI observed widespread user behavior of copying and pasting between ChatGPT and other browser tabs, which revealed a need to be present where users work. Users frequently kept ChatGPT open while working in other tabs and sought assistance by moving content between windows. That behavior highlighted the browser's role as the most-used application and as the gateway to email, banking, work documents, and social platforms. Browsers contain rich signals about user activity and personal data. Because of that centrality, browsers effectively act as an operating system for personal digital life and are essential for capable AI assistants.
Read at The Verge
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