Helpful or Harmful? The Cost of AI's New Learning Tools
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Helpful or Harmful? The Cost of AI's New Learning Tools
"OpenAI just released ChatGPT Atlas, a web browser with ChatGPT built in. It's elegant, intelligent, helpful. A personal assistant that follows you across the web, remembers context from sites you visit, and can take actions on your behalf. The tech world is excited about features like "browser memories" that persist across sessions and "agent mode" that can open tabs, click buttons, and fill out forms for you."
"Browser memories allow Atlas to remember context from websites you visit. This is optional and can be controlled through settings. Users can view, archive, or delete these memories. Agent mode allows the AI to take actions in the browser Incognito mode temporarily logs you out of ChatGPT logging and memory creation. Parental controls allow parents to turn off browser memories and agent mode."
"In principle, a browser memory system like Atlas's could reconstruct things like: which topics a child explored, which pages they lingered on, the questions they asked ChatGPT, the tangents they pursued, and how their searches evolved as they understood more, even if OpenAI doesn't spell out each of these data points. This creates a persistent record of the learning process itself, including the exploration, confusion, and dead ends that c"
ChatGPT Atlas is a web browser with ChatGPT integrated, offering browser memories that persist across sessions, an agent mode to interact with web pages, an incognito mode to prevent logging and memory creation, and parental controls to disable certain features. Browser memories can record topics explored, pages visited, questions asked, tangents pursued, and evolving searches, creating a persistent record of the learning process. Agent mode can open tabs, click buttons, and fill forms on users' behalf. Optional settings and parental controls exist, but concerns remain about parents' understanding of captured data and developmental privacy for children.
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