New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- OpenAI is gradually changing ChatGPT into more than a chatbot and making it a full-scale productivity application. Its most recent feature is branching conversations, in which users fork their conversations into multiple threads, similar to how developers branch code in Git.

This is available to everyone who is logged in to the web version of ChatGPT.

Until now, ChatGPT chats were linear. To open a new tone, style, or method, you had to rewrite the one you were already talking on or create a new chat. This was disruptive to workflows, particularly in professional or creative applications.

Branching now gives the user the option to experiment with several paths and still be able to maintain the original thread. Con...