Merlin: A Web Browser plugin for using ChatGPT
During the year 2022 and now this 2023, in DesdeLinux, like many other websites about Free Software, Open Source, GNU / Linux, and else free and open technologies, or technologies in general; we have and will be addressing for sure, a lot of news about projects (Distributions, Systems, Complements and web, desktop and mobile Apps) related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology.
Precisely for this reason, today we will dedicate this publication to a add-on (plugin) for web browsers based in Firefox and Chrome called "Merlin Chat GPT" or just Merlin. Which, recently, we mentioned promptly in a recent publication (Artificial Intelligence Projects 2023: Free, free and open), and which has surely begun to be used by many more people since then, thanks to its great capabilities and features.
Artificial Intelligence Projects 2023: Free, free and open
And, before starting this post about the useful Web Browser plugin called "Marline", we recommend the previous related posts, so that they can explore them at the end:
Merlin ChatGPT: An AI-based chatbot application
What is the Merlin ChatGPT app?
For now, at their Official website, describe it very briefly like:
A free Extension powered by Open AI ChatGPT to use anywhere.
However, we have asked her to describe herself by asking: What is the Merlin ChatGPT app? And, she has given us the following result:
The Merlin ChatGPT app is an AI-powered chatbot application that allows users to interact with an intelligent chatbot to get information, advice, and answers to questions. It uses natural language processing technology to understand natural language and provide accurate answers to user questions. The app is designed to help users perform tasks like scheduling appointments, making restaurant reservations, getting information about products and services, and getting answers to general questions.
Also, from their official website can be directly installed Merlin to our web browsers. Or visiting its official section on the pages of Firefox Add-on or Chrome Add-ons.
What things can Merlin ChatGPT do?
Personally, since I discovered and recommended this interesting project, which on some websites they mention that it is open source, I have used it for the following specific cases:
- Firstly, for additional related information obtained immediately after doing a search with Google Search. And then, to obtain extra information about any shaded text on any website, pressing its popup button that appears when some text is shaded or its work interface (main screen) that appears directly when invoked with its respective keyboard shortcut.
- Secondly, in order to obtain important, valuable and original information, first generating in the Google Search Engine the necessary results with the correct words, phrases, questions and orders. That is, using the following alternatives: How, When, Where, Why, Perform, Generate, Translate, Create, Generate, Search, among others. Or simply, invoking your main screen directly on the Web Browser.
Examples
As a second good example, we have requested: Recreate a small conversation between Richard Stallman (RS) and Linus Torvalds (LT) during this year 2023. And consequently, it has given us the following result:
- RS: Hi Linus. Good to see you!
- LT: Hi Richard. It's good to see you too! How are you?
- RS: I'm fine. And you?
- LT: I'm fine. Thanks for asking!
- RS: What's new? How is the Linux project this year?
- LT: The Linux project is progressing well. We are working on several projects to improve the operating system and make it more secure. We are working on a new version of Linux to be released soon.
- RS: I hope it will be a great success! What about the developer community? How is it growing?
- LT: The developer community is growing rapidly. Every day there are more people interested in contributing to the project. We are very happy to see that the community continues to grow.
- RS: It's great to see that the community is growing. What about computer freedom? How is the information freedom movement doing this year?
- LT: The freedom of information movement is advancing. We are working on various projects to improve security and privacy online. We are working to ensure that people have the right to use free software and to control their own devices.
- RS: I hope we can make it! I'm sure with the help of the community, we can make this happen.
- LT: I agree. The community is very important to us. We are very grateful for all the support we have received.
- RS: I'm happy to see that the Linux project is moving forward and the community is growing. I hope we can continue to work together to achieve our goals!
- LT: I agree. I hope we can continue to work together to achieve our goals!
Conclusions
For now, Merlin looks like a open source project (GitHub), quite useful for get information or create content to work and study. And it could be improved, especially in terms of its visual interface (GUI) and configuration options. For example:
- It would be great if it came in Spanish: And, that one could tell you that you always give results in Spanish (or another language) as requested.
- It would be great if it recognized voice commands: In order to be able to indicate directly through voice commands what we need to order. And also, that it could reproduce the content obtained or created to be able to listen to it in Spanish (or another indicated language).
- It would be great to take your best advantage: Which is not having to register on the OpenAI ChatGPT website, because it would be great to have it as a Desktop or Mobile App, and not just as a simple web browser plugin.
Finally, and assuming that "Marline" you don't think it's suitable or suitable AI project to interact with ChatGPT, we invite you to learn about another project called «PaLM + RLHF», which we will address in due course, but which is a AI project that combines the Google's Pathways Language Model (PaLM) with the reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). Which gives a very satisfactory result, since it executes tasks very similar to ChatGPT.
Summary
In summary, we hope that this post about "Marline", which is one of many existing Desktop Applications and Web Browser Plugins projects involved in the use of Artificial Intelligence technologythrough ChatGPT, the platform created by OpenAI, increase its use by more users, and this, in turn, encourages its developers to continue improving it for the future. use and enjoyment, accessible, fair and appropriate from anyone anywhere in the world.
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