ChatGPT’s ‘canvas’ interface makes it simpler to put in writing and code

OpenAI has launched a brand new “canvas” interface for ChatGPT that permits customers to regulate sections of textual content or code generated by the chatbot in a side-by-side collaboration. Canvas opens a separate modifying window subsequent to the present ChatGPT chat field, which can be utilized to manually change textual content or code, or spotlight particular sections to higher goal modifying strategies and suggestions from ChatGPT. 

“With canvas, ChatGPT can higher perceive the context of what you’re making an attempt to perform,” OpenAI stated in its announcement. “Making AI extra helpful and accessible requires rethinking how we work together with it. Canvas is a brand new method and the primary main replace to ChatGPT’s visible interface since we launched two years in the past.”

ChatGPT canvas gives customers with a menu of shortcuts for suggesting inline edits, shortly checking grammar and readability, and adjusting the size and studying degree of textual content. Some coding-specific shortcuts are additionally accessible for debugging, including logs and feedback, and translating code into different languages. It’s an identical idea to the “Artifacts” function that rival AI developer Anthropic rolled out for Claude in August.

Previous to this, ChatGPT customers would sometimes have to repeatedly enter new prompts to refine what the chatbot spat out. Canvas sounds quite a bit much less tedious and offers customers some further management. It gives a again button that may restore earlier variations of labor, and OpenAI says it’s optimizing when canvas will mechanically activate — comparable to making it much less more likely to set off for coding duties to keep away from disruptive energy customers.

The canvas interface is presently in beta and will be accessed by choosing “GPT-4o with canvas” underneath ChatGPT’s mannequin picker drop-down menu. It’s rolling out globally to ChatGPT Plus and Groups customers, with entry being expanded to Enterprise and Edu customers subsequent week. When it’s out of beta, canvas might be accessible for ChatGPT’s free customers and mechanically open “when ChatGPT detects a state of affairs during which it may very well be useful,” based on OpenAI.