Sunsetting ChatGPT Atlas
James Sun (via Tim Hardwick):
Lastly, with all these updates, we are going to be sunsetting Atlas.
All these capabilities were built on what we learned from Atlas users who took a leap of faith on a new browser.
You taught us how agents can help make browsing and doing work on the open web better, and we are applying these learnings to these new products.
With the new ChatGPT desktop app, OpenAI now has a desktop app with robust browser capabilities. ChatGPT (and Codex before it) also supports a Chrome desktop browser plugin. This lets Chrome users benefit from ChatGPT integration without completely switching browsers.
Anthropic and OpenAI have legacy software media in the blender because they are playing a new game. They are legitimately racing to build God. The products they release are one-off fundraising vehicles to buoy the next training run. They are not trying to build long-term consumer goodwill.
Previously:
- ChatGPT Work and ChatGPT Classic
- Codex for Almost Everything
- Discontinuing Sora
- Codex App
- ChatGPT Atlas
- AI in Chrome, Neon, and Dia
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"[...] they are playing a new game. They are legitimately racing to build God."
I think Cory Doctorow has a very good metaphor here (I'm paraphrasing): hoping that teaching more and more words to the word predicting software will get them to AGI is like hoping that breading horses that run faster and faster will one day get them a mare that gives birth to a locomotive.
The simplest explanation is probably true: their models write shitty code and their engineers just don't care.
