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https://github.com/jbilcke/latent-browser
Latent web browser
https://github.com/jbilcke/latent-browser
ai code-generation dalle2 gpt-3 latent-browser latent-space latent-web openai prompt-engineering tauri
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Latent web browser
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jbilcke/latent-browser
- Owner: jbilcke
- License: mit
- Created: 2022-12-04T19:02:17.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-06-28T11:28:20.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-15T05:26:50.400Z (18 days ago)
- Topics: ai, code-generation, dalle2, gpt-3, latent-browser, latent-space, latent-web, openai, prompt-engineering, tauri
- Language: TypeScript
- Homepage: https://linktr.ee/FLNGR
- Size: 304 MB
- Stars: 269
- Watchers: 9
- Forks: 19
- Open Issues: 13
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
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README
# The Latent Browser
*Hallucinating the latent web since 2022*
See one of the earliest demos here: [https://twitter.com/flngr/status/1609616068057698304](https://twitter.com/flngr/status/1609616068057698304)
## Project status update (March 2024)
The Latent Browser is back after a year of hiatus!
By popular demand (see [this](https://twitter.com/flngr/status/1772588369932878089) or [this](https://twitter.com/TomDavenport/status/1774080950596481384) thread) an effort has been made to upgrade it to the latest version of the dependencies (well, most of them), and fix the code to make it run again!
Note: It has been a long time since I've worked on this project,
so a lot of things changed since then. I've had to migrate from Next 12 to Next 14, Webpack to Bun, davinci to GPT-4 etc.
It is still possible that some things are broken when you try it.
## What is The Latent Browser
The Latent Browser is a desktop application designed like a web browser,
which hallucinates web search results (the resultds are fictious and are generated by a LLM) and web pages.
## Technology
The Latent Browser is a web application designed to run locally on your machine.
The app is 99% React, Tailwind, TypeScript, and NextJS.
The runtime is Tauri, which is written in Rust (but the Latent Browser itself doesn't really use Rust).
March 2024 update: I never really had the time to package it as a standalone "drag & drop install" application (well actually I did try but there were some bugs, and then I started working on other projects).
## Where can I get in touch / follow you?
I'm always working on various AI projects, so I've setup and Discord and all.
You can find more info by following my Linktree here: [https://linktr.ee/FLNGR](https://linktr.ee/FLNGR).
## How to run it
For the moment you need to fetch the code and run it on your machine.
### Prerequisites
Make sure you have installed the [prerequisites for your OS](https://tauri.app/v1/guides/getting-started/prerequisites):
```
curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
```
### Running the latent borwser
#### Running the standalone app (recommended for users)
```bash
bun i
bun tauri dev
```
#### Running the app in Chrome (recommended for developers)
```bash
bun i
bun next dev
open http://localhost:3000
```
### Packaging the Desktop app
To be continued (the app has been rebooted in March 2024, and most instructions are deprecated).
Note: The Latent Browser is using Tauri V2 but the doc isn't complete yet:
https://beta.tauri.app/guides/build
## Using the browser
### Working (most of the time) examples
Here are some examples to get you started:
- `a back-office application to manage users. There is a table with editable cells, a button to add a new user, and a counter of users.`
- `a simulation of calculating PI by generating random dots inside a circle. The simulator should include a slider to adjust the speed, a reset button, and the current estimate of PI.`
- `a simple app to compute your BMI, using form inputs for age, height and weight (in kilos)`
- `a whack-a-mole game but with spiders, a css 3-per-3 grid, emojis, and JS code`
- `a clone of asteroid using , the mouse should orient the spaceship, it should fire bullets when clicking, and bullets can destroy asteroids.`
- `website for a company selling time travel visit packages (great pyramids, Trojan wars..). The website features 3 polaroid pictures taken by tourists of those eras`
### Non-working examples
Those examples don't work yet.. maybe one day in text-davinci-004 or 005?
- `a 120 BPM drum machine made using tone.js, with a step sequencer made using html checkboxes, to indicate when to play. Each row should be a different instrument (kick, snare, hihat), 8 buttons per row. There is a button to start/stop.`
## FAQ
### The UI/UX should be improved
I agree!
### Uhh.. something went wrong
Try clicking again on generate 🎲
### No I mean, something went REALLY wrong
Maybe you did too many requests to OpenAI?
### I don't.. know?
Wait a bit then restart the application, eg. kill it from the terminal.
## Message to hackers
After reworking on the app again in March 2024, I've noticed that there are now two new build options in Tauri: Android and iOS.
But ATM I haven't really looked into it.
If you are interested to explore this, here are the commands:
```bash
# init
bun run tauri android init
bun run tauri ios init
# run
bun run tauri android dev
bun run tauri ios dev
```