ChatGPT’s ‘canvas’ interface makes it easier to write and code

OpenAI has launched a caller “canvas” interface for ChatGPT that allows users to set sections of substance oregon codification generated by the chatbot successful a side-by-side collaboration. Canvas opens a abstracted editing model adjacent to the existing ChatGPT chat box, which tin beryllium utilized to manually alteration substance oregon code, oregon item circumstantial sections to amended people editing suggestions and feedback from ChatGPT. 

“With canvas, ChatGPT tin amended recognize the discourse of what you’re trying to accomplish,” OpenAI said successful its announcement. “Making AI much utile and accessible requires rethinking however we interact with it. Canvas is simply a caller attack and the archetypal large update to ChatGPT’s ocular interface since we launched 2 years ago.”

ChatGPT canvas provides users with a paper of shortcuts for suggesting inline edits, rapidly checking grammar and clarity, and adjusting the magnitude and speechmaking level of text. Some coding-specific shortcuts are besides disposable for debugging, adding logs and comments, and translating codification into different languages. It’s a akin conception to the “Artifacts” feature that rival AI developer Anthropic rolled retired for Claude successful August.

Prior to this, ChatGPT users would typically request to repeatedly input caller prompts to refine what the chatbot spat out. Canvas sounds a batch little tedious and gives users immoderate further control. It provides a backmost fastener that tin reconstruct erstwhile versions of work, and OpenAI says it’s optimizing erstwhile canvas volition automatically activate — specified arsenic making it little apt to trigger for coding tasks to debar disruptive powerfulness users.

The canvas interface is presently successful beta and tin beryllium accessed by selecting “GPT-4o with canvas” nether ChatGPT’s exemplary picker drop-down menu. It’s rolling retired globally to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users, with entree being expanded to Enterprise and Edu users adjacent week. When it’s retired of beta, canvas volition beryllium disposable for ChatGPT’s escaped users and automatically unfastened “when ChatGPT detects a script successful which it could beryllium helpful,” according to OpenAI.