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Ryan Morrison

I use AI every day and giving ChatGPT access to apps is the biggest AI upgrade of the year

ChatGPT logo on MacBook Pro M4.

OpenAI first unveiled its macOS ChatGPT app in May and apart from the addition of Advanced Voice a few weeks ago, there wasn’t much it could do that you couldn’t do on the web. But the addition of a new ‘app view’ feature, we’re seeing the true value of having a desktop app.

Revealed on Thursday, the updated ChatGPT app for macOS is now able to see the contents of certain apps as you interact with them. Currently limited to developer tools like Xcode and Visual Studio Code, company insiders have told me that it will be able to interact with those applications in the future, essentially allowing you to make changes by talking to ChatGPT and letting it handle the rest.

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