Computerworld July 26, 2024
Your favorite browser will soon have new AI features built around user assistance.
The modern web browser is rather staid and not terribly exciting. Google Chrome rules the roost, browser technologies like HTML and JavaScript have gone unchanged for years, and updates to browsers are more often bug fixes than new features.
But it’s about to get a little more interesting.
Generative AI is coming to every web browser. Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and other browsers are trying to change how we interact with the web, using AI to boil down web articles and make browsing more efficient, said Ritu Jyoti, group vice president for AI infrastructure at IDC.
“The strategy is to reinvent web search, and the hope is...