OpenAI Adds SearchGPT Option to Apple's Shortcuts App

The newest version of the ChatGPT app from OpenAI adds a new "Open SearchGPT" option to the Shortcuts app on the iPhone and iPad. For those that have access to SearchGPT, tapping on the shortcut launches the ChatGPT app and invokes the web search feature.

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OpenAI added ChatGPT Search to ChatGPT in late October, introducing improved AI-based internet searches. SearchGPT is meant to search the web "in a much better way than before," offering up links to relevant web sources along with more contextual information and support for follow-up questions.

SearchGPT is available to those who have ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Teams, with OpenAI planning to roll out support to free users in the coming months.

To access the SearchGPT action in Shortcuts, you'll need the latest version of the ChatGPT app, which was released yesterday.

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Top Rated Comments

Plutonius Avatar
15 weeks ago
If you have two iPhones running ChatGPT, I wonder if you can get them arguing with each other :).
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
mdatwood Avatar
15 weeks ago

Oh great. Even easier ways to find information statistically assembled by a machine learning algorithm (please don't call this stuff "intelligence") with no comprehension. Now we can just accept answers from the software without a clue from which illegally-scraped information sources are blended into the response.

Answers provided without the context of the source sites & writers, from a system that has been repeatedly proven to be unreliable at rates that should even make Siri blush, are arguably worse than having no answers at all.

Internet searches may take a few more inconvenient steps to execute, but the quality and value of the answers are vastly better. This is especially true if you compare results from multiple sources with known biases. But LLMs take all of that context away, and just spit out information lacking in the nuances that give it clarity.
Honestly, this rant sounds much like what I used to hear when the internet was becoming a thing. "Books are the only real place to find information", "There no context on that web page", "how do you know if what's on that web page is true?!", etc... But one lesson remains, be critical of anything you read. Google searches vs. LLMs don't change that fact.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Jay Tee Avatar
15 weeks ago
Finally, ChatGPT can officially help settle debates and find the best pizza spot nearby—all without leaving the app. Siri better watch her back!
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
TechnoTiger3000 Avatar
15 weeks ago

Why smartphones do not make us smarter and why Artificial Intelligence is making nobody more intelligent?

I guess the thrill lies in the personality of the fanboy adapting tech that promises something the fanboy does not own himself.

And those people give away any remaining bit of Privacy to get a new feature which is almost useless.

The source for stupid decisions can be found in consumers trying to compensate their very own shortcomings.

Basically these devices are simulators for real life experiences - and always leave us with a vacuum, a feeling of missing out.

I miss the times when we asked for directions, but maybe I am just old?
And why don’t calculators make us better at mental arithmetic? They are tools, not teachers.

I agree with you that tech is making human connection more optional, but let’s not romanticize the past too much. Nostalgia oversimplifies things and leaves us vulnerable to conservative regressive agendas. Just like after the industrial revolution, I believe we need regulation to keep people safe. The neoliberal mindset of allowing companies to exploit humans without restriction is causing more harm than the new tools. Technology is not the enemy, the issue lies in how it is designed to prioritize profit over well-being and destroy genuine human connection in the process.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
WarmWinterHat Avatar
15 weeks ago

If Apple allowed openAI an api, they could build a better Apple intelligence experience for us.
As long as I could keep it disabled, that's fine I guess. I want nothing to do with openAI and would rather not send them traffic but don't want to cripple my device, either.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
SBlue1 Avatar
15 weeks ago

Why smartphones do not make us smarter and why Artificial Intelligence is making nobody more intelligent?

I guess the thrill lies in the personality of the fanboy adapting tech that promises something the fanboy does not own himself.

And those people give away any remaining bit of Privacy to get a new feature which is almost useless.

The source for stupid decisions can be found in consumers trying to compensate their very own shortcomings.

Basically these devices are simulators for real life experiences - and always leave us with a vacuum, a feeling of missing out.

I miss the times when we asked for directions, but maybe I am just old?
Oh wow, are you sure there is not something deeper going on with you? I hope you are just having a bad day.

Technology is just here to make our lives easier. Relax.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)