AI is no longer just about chat; it’s also about dominating Chatbots to browsers.
While the AI revolution began with chatbots like ChatGPT and Perplexity, the technology is now spreading on a larger scale, and its next destination is your web browser.
Many people believe that chatbots represent the ultimate form of modern AI. However, two new products demonstrate that the AI of the future will primarily operate within the browser, where it can fully recognize your online world and act automatically.
Why is AI choosing the browser as the next step?
The reason is simple: Just as today’s chatbots can’t access your email, bank account, or other private websites, their capabilities are limited. But the browser is a place where you log in and do all your important work, and if AI can participate in that work through the browser, it could become your digital assistant.
Two New Innovations: ChatGPT Agent and Perplexity Comet
Two recent technologies have signalled this transformation:
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent: It browses the web for you using a regular browser. However, it is still limited—it is read-only, meaning it cannot access logged-in sites.
Perplexity’s Comet: Perplexity’s Comet Browser takes a more advanced approach. It can access logged-in sites for you and can perform specific tasks such as searching for information, navigating the site, or completing tasks. However, performance is not yet reliable.
Slow and confusing results: There is still a long way to go.
AI browser tools have many limitations:
ChatGPT Agent is very slow—for example, when a journalist asked to find a specific lamp on Etsy, it took about 50 minutes for the Agent to respond!
The agent claimed to have added the product to the cart, but it later turned out not to have done so.
Comet, on the other hand, while relatively fast, sometimes makes false promises. It claims to have completed a task, but does not. But its sidebar interface is quite useful—it can summarise any webpage you’re reading or help you do quick research.
But the researchers are optimistic about the future.
Perplexity CEO Arvind Srinivas said he’s counting on “advanced reasoning models” that can perform complex tasks step by step. OpenAI has already created a special reasoning model for the ChatGPT Agent, although its name or API has not yet been revealed.
The browser will be the hub of the AI agent of the future.
While we’re used to the current chatbot interfaces, the experience of using a browser-based AI like Comet feels much more realistic because it can see everything on your screen and act on the webpage at your command. In the future, standalone chatbots may be on smartphones, but the new address for AI agents on the desktop will be the browser.
Conclusion:
While AI browser assistants are not completely reliable at the moment, the ongoing research and development show that they will become more powerful, effective, and practical in the coming days. Then, maybe, just by telling them, your AI browser assistant will finish the work on your website for you!
Information provided by –
M.K. Alam
Digital Marketer
Digitalmarketeralamctg@gmail.com