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gnarlouse ◴[] No.45663225[source]
I'm still shocked that there isn't basic functionality in chatgpt that allows you to fork conversations to have subtopical conversational threads off of a main one.

For example, I'm asking deep philosophical questions, or maybe reaching for a STEM concept slightly beyond my understanding, and that inevitably requires me to ask subquestions (eg "okay wait, what are Conformal Fields?"). Doing so still forces me to do a linear conversational format, and it just isn't functional.

Blows my mind that with all the great big AI minds at OpenAI they still can't do basic functionality.

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Like seriously, for some of us old heads, imagine having this in undergrad: a professor in your pocket that can handle your arbitrarily stupid recitation questions, one on one, with infinite patience. I think I could have aced electrodynamics and Calc III instead of just pulling Bs.

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rlander ◴[] No.45663270[source]
Maybe you haven’t seen this yet, but there is a (recent) option to fork a conversation when you click on the thee dots of a reply.
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1. davorak ◴[] No.45663440[source]
I think I have always been able to have branching conversations via editing a comment.

The interface remembers both the old and new conversation thread and you can switch between them.

It seems like the new "Branch in new chat" feature mostly creates a new chat at the top level rather then the existing functionality of editing a comment and branching in the same chat.