ChatGPT Gives you Branches...

Courtesy of the Neuron:

behold, the ability to branch a new chat in ChatGPT!

So like, why would you want to do this? As Micah, the original requester put it:

1. Say ChatGPT just explained how recommendation algorithms work, and you're following along perfectly.

2. But then it mentions “collaborative filtering” and suddenly you're like “wait, how is that different from content-based filtering again?”

3. Now you want to branch off and ask “give me three examples of collaborative filtering in apps I actually use” and “why did Netflix switch from one to the other?”

4. WITHOUT branching, those questions would derail your algorithm lesson, and extend your chat, risking context rot.

5. Now, you can chase whatever rabbit down whatever rabbit hole you want, get your answers, then jump back to “okay, so you were explaining how YouTube's algorithm decides what to show me next...” Pretty powerful stuff!

Where there was once the danger of wikipedia rabbit holes, you now have the danger of AI rabbit holes. The promise here is a great way to build out knowledge for students. Where some of the most powerful and productive questions were "off-topic," Open AI is giving you a way to get off-topic and not lose the main thread. Awesome feature.