ChatGPT Atlas

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.

There is! If you click on the three dots menu of a response, there is a “Branch in new chat” option.

I just discovered it today and feel like it’s new.

It isn’t present on mobile (at least on iOS) unfortunately. I use it all the time on the web though, and it’s very useful.