Last February, we already addressed the integration of AI in the browsers themselves as a battlefield where the big Internet would find themselves, no matter how much the focus was placed on the integration of chatbots in search engines. At that moment, both Edge and Opera already proposed the incorporation of sidebars from which to interact with ‘copilots’ during our navigation sessions.
Opera, which has been betting on the strategy of launching ‘themed browsers’ depending on whether we are general users (Opera browser), cryptocurrency users (Opera Crypto), gamers (Opera GX)… last April it launched its new modular browser Opera One, in which it has decided to start integrating chatbots directly into its interface.
The availability of ChatGPT and ChatSonic was the highlight of its launchbut they already announced that it would incorporate new functionalities related to AI in the near future.
ZAO, the Chinese MOBILE APP that through DEEPFAKE turns you into DICAPRIO in SECONDS
Aria is already here, but she still needed a boil.
And these new functionalities have landed today with the announcement of the integration of Aria, the artificial intelligence assistant ‘made in Opera’built into the browser and based on its ‘Composer’ infrastructure, which in turn allows it to seamlessly interact with multiple language models.
To use it, just log in to our Opera account and click the Aria button on the left sidebar to display the corresponding side panel. As explained from Opera, Aria
“It offers advanced features such as up-to-date results (a feature that is not available in most GPT technologies, the knowledge of which is limited until 2021). This allows users to take advantage of the collaboration of artificial intelligence while searching for information, to generate texts or code and to get answers to your questions about products and services.
For example, Aria has access to Opera’s comprehensive database of support documentation, allowing her to answer any user questions and improve customer support.”
This sounds good, but it’s much more limited than it sounds.. While Microsoft’s first example in February of the benefits of integrating AI into the browser was the ability to summarize the websites we were visitingas well as asking the browser questions about its content, and more recently Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, confirmed that the main use we gave to ChatGPT was the possibility of summarizing emails, websites and documents, Opera tells us that its AI assistant cannot read what we are seeing on the screen:
“Aria lacks access to her browser databeyond what you send through the input field”.
As proof of this:
WTF, Opera. WTF.
Indeed, it is incapable of summarizing what we are viewing, something already within the reach of dozens of extensions for Chrome, Edge or Firefox. We insist, Opera recognizes this limitation on its website, but this it makes quite a bit of sense to launch a specific version of your browser that supposedly emphasizes its AI-related features.
Aria’s problem, however, is that when we ask him to look for information on the Internet, he also rams (sometimes) beautifully. And not with any information that is not within your reach, precisely:
The free version of ChatGPT only offers information until 2021… a decade more than Aria when her wires get crossed
whatAnd if we ask you to act as a ‘co-pilot’ of the browser, and write ‘Activate Opera One VPN’? Neither: for now Aria only provides textual information. In summary, no matter how much we are dealing with a recently launched program, which promises to improve in the near future, etc., what this browser transmits for now it’s just a rush to jump on the AI bandwagon.
And we understand that there is a certain feeling that ‘if you do not include AI you are nobody’, but possibly (and more for smaller browsers) it is better to bet on the policy of ‘slowly and good lyrics’.
In Genbeta | Opera GX has added one of the strangest and most interesting features when browsing: background music that changes depending on what we do