On Wednesday, Opera, the popular Web browser firm, announced that it has introduced new AI-powered features for its desktop browsers, Opera, and Opera GX. These features include AI Prompts, as well as sidebar access to ChatGPT and ChatSonic, to enhance users' browsing experience.


According to Opera, these new tools are available for early access on all desktop platforms. The Opera Browser's native AI Prompts feature can help users summarise or explain a long and confusing text, be it a paragraph, an entire article, or even a website. AI Prompts is easily accessible either by highlighting the text or directly from the address bar.


Aside from AI Prompts, users can now access the Web versions of ChatGPT and ChatSonic right in the sidebar of the Opera browser. The new features can help generate summaries, translations, itineraries, and ideas, while users can also learn music, write code, get math help, draft text, and more. The company claims that ChatSonic can even create images for users.


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Opera mentioned that these new AI-powered features offer a more personal and intelligent Web experience, tailored to the users' needs and interests. The company also stated that it will introduce more AI-powered features in the future, utilising its own GPT-based model.


Meanwhile, according to Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the Micorosoft-backed research lab that created ChatGPT, AI technology has the potential to drastically change society, but also has real dangers. He believes that AI chatbots could "eliminate a lot of current jobs" but also has the potential to be "the greatest technology humanity has yet developed" to improve our lives.


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Altman emphasized the importance of being careful with AI development, stating that people should be happy that "we are a little bit scared of this." He also discussed the possible effects of chatbots powered by AI on education, suggesting that it could encourage laziness among students.


However, Altman also acknowledged that technology has changed education before, such as when the calculator was introduced.