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Experience the Future of Browsing: GPT-3 as Your Personal Navigator

Jacob Ferus
3 min readJan 16, 2023
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Natbot — Let AI control your browser

Natbot is a Python program that enables GPT-3 to browse the web to perform a specified objective. It works by supplying GPT-3 descriptions of what is shown on the page, such as links and buttons, and then telling GPT-3 to perform an action. After GPT-3 has performed the action the webpage is updated accordingly and information about the new webpage is supplied to GPT-3. This back-and-forth process is iteratively performed until the task is finished (or it failed). Take a look at this demo from the creator:

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Jacob Ferus

Looking outside the box and making sense of the world using data.