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Perplexity's Comet Browser: The Future of AI Assistants
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What happens when AI steps beyond answering questions and starts taking real-world actions? We dive headfirst into testing Perplexity's groundbreaking Comet browser with its integrated AI assistant capabilities, witnessing firsthand how digital agents are evolving from conversational tools into autonomous task performers.
The episode begins with a practical test: making a restaurant reservation at a popular Nashville eatery. We watch in real-time as the AI agent navigates reservation systems, searches for availability, and prepares to complete the booking process—all significantly faster than previous experiences with other AI tools that took upwards of 20 minutes for similar tasks. The transparency of seeing the agent work—clicking through websites, interacting with dropdown menus, and navigating booking platforms—offers a fascinating glimpse into how these technologies function behind the scenes.
Our conversation takes a critical turn as we explore the implications of entrusting AI agents with sensitive information like credit card details. Where do we draw the line between convenience and security? We contemplate the psychological difference between having payment information saved in a browser (where humans initiate purchases) versus allowing an autonomous agent to make transactions on our behalf. The episode culminates with an impressive demonstration of the AI creating a comprehensive three-day Nashville itinerary in seconds—complete with museum recommendations, dining options, and entertainment suggestions—a task that would typically require substantial human research time. While highlighting current limitations, like failing to ask about budget constraints or personal preferences, the demonstration showcases the tremendous potential these tools hold for streamlining everyday tasks and decision-making processes.
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Introduction to Perplexity's Comet Browser
Speaker 1Perplexity, came out with their own web browser.
Speaker 2I did not know that it's called Comet Comet, okay.
Speaker 1And I have it pulled up right here and essentially it has an assistant with it and it will do stuff. So it's kind of like an AI agent and so we're going to test this out to kind of see how it functions and how fast it is. This out to kind of see how it functions and how fast it is. I tried doing a agent on chat gpt to make a restaurant reservation and it took like 20 minutes oh really like it took forever so we're gonna see, like how long it takes to do um, to make a restaurant reservation.
Speaker 1So when I say, can you make a restaurant reservation, I don. When I say, can you make a restaurant reservation, I don't care if that's misspelled.
Speaker 2I was going to say I always misspell restaurants.
Speaker 1Let's see the most popular, so we'll make it do like a little search too. Popular restaurant in Tennessee for tomorrow at 6 pm.
Speaker 2Are you going to say what city in Tennessee?
Speaker 1For Nashville, for a party of two and because I'm OCD, I'm going to fix this, even though I said I don't care, I really do care.
Speaker 2So we're going to make it search for a restaurant a popular restaurant and then make a reservation for tomorrow too.
Speaker 1So we'll see what it does here. So you can see it kind of gives it like a thought process. It says searching for the most popular restaurants in Nashville area.
Speaker 2What just happened? Maybe because you clicked?
Speaker 1Did I accidentally click on something.
Speaker 2I don't know. It said answer skipped. All right, maybe you accidentally tapped the bottom like you were typing again. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1So here we go. You can see that it's making like a or it's thinking so. It says. Looking at the most popular restaurant in Nashville and it looks like it's opening up a service. Don't know how you pronounce that service Resi.
Speaker 2Yeah, probably.
Testing AI Restaurant Reservation
Speaker 1Resi Nashville. Already. This seems like it's going faster than ChatGPT's agent. Now, that being said, chatgpt 5, their agent could be a little bit faster, so we may need to test this one out as well on there.
Speaker 2It's interesting that I wonder if you can hit open page and it will actually. You can watch it do the process for you. It's cool that this agent actually clicks around and drops down, does the dropdown buttons and all that. So this, this chat on the side only stays with the current tab you're on.
Speaker 1It looks like it, and I don't know if you can do more than one at a time. That would be pretty cool, like, say, you had a bunch of tasks that you had to do on a given day. You just open up the tabs and say here's what I want you to do, and it just runs check this out. Okay. So it finished doing what it was doing. Is I found availability at a top in-demand restaurant or spot that fits your criteria?
Speaker 1husk nashville gives me a date and a time 5 30 so it was close to your time, not exactly, but close and it looks like there's a little cancellation policy 25 bucks per person, like which that kind of actually doesn't make sense plus tax, but anyway, um, it says 6 pm was not available. 5 30 is closest within your requested 5.30 to 6.30 window, which I don't think I requested that, but it said 6 pm. Let's see. To complete the reservation, I can proceed and finalize it under your name. Please confirm full name for the booking, mobile number, email for the confirmation. Any dietary restrictions? If you prefer exactly 6 pm. Ora, different restaurant. It gave me some other options. Tell me your priority and I'll keep searching and book the best available match. It's pretty cool now, because this they have like a cancellation policy, I'm not going to actually book this.
Speaker 1Yeah, I will say I did this on a different, a different restaurant, uh, last week and it used open table for the restaurant reservation yeah and it went through the entire process to where it basically opened up like a new window and it's like hey, oh, wait, sorry, this is for chat gpts agentic ai yeah to where it opened up the, the browser window, and it's like you need to enter in your credit card info because you have to use that for open table, and which I wasn't going to do.
Speaker 1But it got to that point now because I didn't want to enter in the credit card info yeah so what I did is I called the restaurant and I made a reservation, but for a half an hour later and what happened? On the day of the reservation, I got a text message from OpenTable saying so, the one where we did the agent. I did 5.30, but I called and did a 6 o'clock reservation. I got a text message at 5.30 saying your table's ready.
Speaker 2Oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 1And I looked back at my text messages from OpenTable and I saw that there was confirmation for both 5.30 and 6.
Speaker 2So it did go through, even though you didn't put your card information in it seems like it did still go through. Which is cool. So you know it actually worked.
Speaker 1So this is all in its infancy right. This is the worst it's going to get, which is crazy and it worked it took forever but it worked. So if you have a bunch of menial tasks that you can hand off to an agent, you can do it and it's going to just keep getting better and better. Now I will say if you had already entered in your credit card info, already logged in to things, it would make it a lot better and a lot quicker.
Speaker 1And I think it would actually go ahead and do it and so very interesting it and so very interesting like it's.
Speaker 2It's early on, but it shows a lot of promise of completing some pretty small tasks that just take up time and distract you throughout your day yeah, I saw that, uh, that someone was trying to book flights with it, and I'm like that seems you that you're gonna have to go in and do it yourself anyway at some point. It's going to say hey, you have to enter a lot of your information unless you give it. I don't know, I assume I personally wouldn't want to give it my credit card information.
Credit Card Safety Concerns
Speaker 2Yeah, that seems weird it does I mean? I think with Google, if Google comes out with their own. A lot of people have their credit cards saved already, so maybe you can pull from that.
Speaker 1So let me ask you why do you trust? Google more than OpenAI.
Speaker 2No, I'm saying I don't know, but I'm saying I have mine already saved, or a lot of people do, right Depending, just like Amazon saves credit card information right.
Speaker 1Right.
Speaker 2I mean it's supposedly blocked, like it's just the last four that you can see, or whatever.
Speaker 1But I have the same sentiment to where. I was very hesitant to give OpenAI, like their agent, my credit card info.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1But Google, they already have a bunch of stuff saved.
Speaker 2I just don't know. I just don't know. I feel weird typing in the information to a chat, especially with the certain chats going public, like which they took away, but still it's like that seems concerning it does really want to.
Speaker 1Well, and, and I think there's a little bit of discomfort when you think about an agent that can do stuff, that can do stuff on its own having your credit card info. You know, having it saved within a web browser is not a big deal, because you actually have to go in and still initiate the purchase, yeah. But an agent can do that for you and that's a little scary. And how do how are credit card companies going?
Speaker 2are you gonna be able to dispute that?
Speaker 1yeah right, it's like an agent did this like I didn't do it, you know, and yeah, it'd be like, yeah, I. Yeah, I don't know where that's going to go, but I think if there are some safeguards put in place to where, like on chat, gpt's agent or perplexity's agent, if you have to give them the go-ahead before they actually make a purchase, I think that will help ease concerns about giving them your credit card and that will just come with experience, testing and maybe to use a credit card with a very low limit.
Speaker 2Yeah right, I booked you this first-class flight to Ibiza. Yeah, it'll be $3,000.
Speaker 1Congratulations.
Speaker 2What are you talking about?
Speaker 1That didn't save me any time.
Speaker 2Yeah, you just give a certain task, like, hey, I'm looking. Yeah, you just give a certain task Like, hey, I'm looking just to go on a small vacation with my wife for our anniversary, very basic. And then it ends up doing all these different things. Hey, I booked you a flight, a hotel, and you're like oh no.
AI Travel Planning Demo
Speaker 1Now you could be like can you put together an it Three-day trip in Nashville? This might be something that is more useful.
Speaker 2Yeah, well then you can say hey in Nashville there's a museum and it gets you tickets, or books you tickets. That is kind of cool, especially for this kind of stuff. But you're still going to need a credit card. But once that gets figured out, if it gets to each point and it's like, hey, click on this page. This link has everything already set up. All you have to do is enter your credit card information and then it has everything like that. Pretty cool. You know, you can go to a predators game, you can do this, you can do this. I have it all scheduled out for you, just have to go put your information in.
Speaker 1That's pretty cool look how fast it put together an itinerary and so like. Let's look at this. So morning country music, hall of fame and museum plan around two hours optional. It gives you an rca studio b tour um gives you some lunch recommendations in the afternoon. Hit up right rhyman the auditor Self-guided tour Stroll Lower Broadway, which I probably wouldn't stroll that until the evening. But you know, yeah, dinner Hattie B's of course.
Speaker 2Hattie B's is so good. So good.
Speaker 1Even Honky Tonk Highway. Oh, maybe that's what this is more talking about on Broadway. Yeah, but yeah. And then day two. I'm just kind of curious because we visited Nashville before and so I'm like how does this compare to what we did?
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1You know, and the Centennial Park in Parthenon.
Speaker 2That was cool.
Speaker 1Yeah, done that. So like there's a lot of stuff on here that we didn't do, but like kind this would be kind of interesting. It would be fun to kind of generate these itineraries and just like go and like really cool was this actually a good trip?
Speaker 2yeah, test it out yeah, so and obviously, like I think you probably, do that and then ask it can you book all these, like any museums that you have recommended on here, anything that needs a reservation, what it?
Speaker 1didn't ask me is what's your budget? Yeah, you know right and and so like that's something I kind of wish it would have done is maybe say hey, you know, there's a lot of things we can do, kind of what is your daily budget? That? You want to spend for two people or how many people are gonna go?
Speaker 2like rest times it's. It's just like go, go, go.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2It's one thing to another, to another, to another.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Um, which you could probably specify obviously say, hey, I want uh, every afternoon I want to be able to go somewhere or just chill for two hours.
Speaker 1So, like it did the best, it came up with it. I do wish it would have asked me some follow-up questions before it actually gave me some recommendations, I feel like ChatGPT, fails a lot at asking, I think most AI.
Speaker 2There's certain AI. I guess you could put that into the instructions of whatever you're doing. It says make sure you ask follow-up questions for more so we can get the best answer possible.
Closing Thoughts and Subscribe Reminder
Speaker 1You could do a project folder in chat, gpt, and have it be just about travel and if that's like something that you're really into, and and then give it instructions. That basically asks like, hey, ask me these questions before you give me a response. Yeah, and now we can kind of tailor it a little bit better to what what you're looking at. So mean, this is a good glimpse of kind of what we can expect in the future, and obviously there's going to be lots of changes and adjustments. They're releasing new stuff all the time, but it's a it's an option at least for you to kind of mess around with, just to kind of see what the future of the web is going to be like. Thanks for listening.
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