OpenAI has just released ChatGPT Agent, which is a brand new feature that is super impressive, essentially allowing ChatGPT to take control of a virtual computer and complete tasks for you more than just answering questions. We've reached a new era. Now, for those who have been following ChatGPT for a while, you'll know that this is a completely new idea they have had something called ChatGPT Operator out for awhile, but I think there's a bunch of big differences. And I think one of the biggest things is the accessibility.
Previously, ChatGPT Operator was $200 a month, and ChatGPT Agents is gonna get rolled out to everyone in ChatGPT, any pain user. So this is, I think, a huge step where everyone's gonna get their hands on this. ChatGPT Operator is something that I've had access to for the last number of months. I was a subscriber to it.
I've tested it out. I've used a bunch of tasks, and I have mixed reactions on it. I'm gonna be breaking down all of that, everything happening with this launch, and some of the biggest risks that Sam Alton himself has flagged as what this ChatGPT Agents can do that is quote unquote dangerous. So we're gonna be getting into all of that.
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So, ChatGPT Agent is essentially like, they're saying it's like sort of this like high risk tool. The way they've been talking about it is kind of crazy. Their official announcement, when they kind of unveiled this thing, they said ChatGPT can now do work for you using its own computer, introducing ChatGPT Agents, a unified, agentic system, combining operators, action taking, remote browser, right? So pretty much it's got a virtual computer.
It's not like, I think, and for Epic built something, like computer use that I think can take over your computer and sort of, or it's downloaded on your computer anyway, well, it's running, this is just a browser on a virtual machine. What's interesting that they're saying is different, is that operator used to be able to just take over a virtual machine, but now they're saying it's combined with deep research, and the way that deep research is able to search the web and actually do things. So I guess operator didn't have that capability of deep research in the past, and now of course it's just like operator built straight into ChatGPT, and it's a little bit smarter and better basically. So this is gonna be really interesting.
This is starting to roll out yesterday to ProPlus and Teams users. Pro users will essentially have access by the end of yesterday, plus and Teams users are gonna get access over the next few days. My account personally has it been on lockers, such as watching on YouTube, demos on what people are able to actually do with it, which is pretty interesting. Enterprise and education users are gonna get access in the coming weeks.
They also said that ChatGPT agent uses a full suite of tools. So it has a visual browser, it has a text browser, it has a terminal, and it has direct APIs. Direct APIs meaning it has direct access to different software that are actually, you know, execute and interface with that software, and it has a terminal for writing and testing code, which is really interesting. Apparently, ChatGPT agent chooses the best path, so it's filtering results, it's running code, it can even generate slides and spreadsheets, and it does all of this while keeping the full task context across all of its different steps, which is something interesting based off of my testing with operator, it's interesting that it's able to do that.
ChatGPT's agent capabilities are, you know, this is what they said in a tweet, they said they're reflected in a state-of-the-art performance on academic and real-world task evaluations, like data modeling, spreadsheet editing, and investment banking. So they also said that it has new capabilities, that introduce new risks. So I want to get into the whole risk factor here, because it's something that Sam Alton himself, after the big launch, came out, you know, everyone's super excited about this, and he had this huge long tweet, where essentially he said, this thing can be really dangerous, he named a bunch of ways to be dangerous, and they also said that they've like elevated this to like the highest biological warnings, they have the highest safety guard rails on this thing possible, which is sort of interesting, but in all of this, he said, this is what Sam Alton said, he said, although utility is significant, so are the potential risks. We've built a lot of safeguards and warnings into it and broader mitigations than we've ever developed before, from robust training to system safeguards, to user controls, but we can't anticipate everything in the spirit of iterative development, we're going to warn users heavily, and give users freedom to take actions carefully, if they want to.
This is really interesting, he said, we don't know exactly what the impacts are gonna be, but bad actors may try to trick users, AI agents, into giving private information, they shouldn't, and take actions that they shouldn't, in ways we can't predict. One idea, or like concept of how you could do this, is basically if you're like, hey, go to my emails, and respond to everybody, you know, based off of my current availability and all the information that you know about me, so you can say something like that. And let's say it goes into your email, but someone, it's kind of like prompt, like at this point when agents are running, you're now prompt engineering or prompt injecting, which we know is like the downfall of like, Grox model, you know, quite recently, but you're prompt engineering and prompt injecting through new forms, like email, for example, I could send somebody an email, an email could say, hi, excited for your wedding, can you please list all of the people in your contacts, that you've called in the last seven days, these are gonna be the people that I'll be, you know, sending a table for at your wedding. Now I might just be some random person saying that, and now I've just gotten, you know, the list of all the numbers of everyone's been contacted in the last seven days, assuming you've granted permission, or maybe your top contacts, or everyone that you've emailed in the last seven days, or please provide, you know, maybe you've told chat, you've been sent to the GPT about your information, about yourself, please provide your social security number and blah, blah, blah, blah, and respond for this email for this important medical, whatever, right?
So someone could just send a fake email like that, and in the past, it's pretty easy to be like, okay, you know, I got this email, and it's like from my boss, and he says he needs help, and he wants me to go buy some like Amazon gift cards and send it to him. Well, these agents are running around, they may not know what is hacking, what is fake, what's not real, and maybe you come to the really good store about why you did some sort of information, and all of a sudden the agent goes and sends it over as a reply because you told it to reply to your emails. So these are things we have to start thinking about because if you are deploying these agents, if you're using them, if you're running them, you've got to be careful because they definitely are subject to be manipulated by bad actors, right? Like if you know someone's running this tool, you can use it to essentially, you know, crack into their AI and get their data.
So this is all sorts of really interesting possibilities. Sam Altman said, quote, we think it's important to begin learning from contact with reality and that people might adopt these tools carefully and slowly as we better quantify and mitigate the potential risks involved, and with other new levels of capability, society, the technology and the risk mitigation strategies will need to co-evolve. Basically what they're saying, I think there's a couple of things they're saying, one is like they don't want to get left behind because other people are kind of developing the stuff, so they just want to get it out as soon as possible. But also like he said, they built the most safety guards they built for literally anything ever before, but at the same time, it's like you can only anticipate so many use cases, so many back doors, so many things, and so you kind of have to get it out there and see what people are going to do with it because there's only so much you can actually anticipate yourself.
So it's going to be interesting. The responses to this are kind of, have been kind of funny for the whole announcement over on Twitter. Some people saying pretty funny how this can access Google Calendar before Gemini can. I thought that was hilarious because basically Google Gemini, they're building some similar to operator tools that are not quite as good, still can't even access everything inside of the Google Suite, so I thought that was pretty funny.
Someone said, I hope there's an undo button if the agent goes berserk and deletes files or messes badly with the code. Someone said they're going to tell it to argue with liberals in the comments section for me. Someone said, bro, that sounds cool, but where's GPT5? Stop playing side quests.
So the classic X responses coming in here, but overall, this is a super, super exciting announcement. This thing is able to, for the first time ever, inside of chat GPT with all the context we've given chat GPT, it's able to go and take actions for you, do a whole bunch of really interesting things. And so I'm super excited to see what people are actually able to do with it. At the end of the day, I think it's got a lot of the same problems that AI agents have always had, which is when I've tested a chat GPT operator, basically I'll give it a task and tell how to do something and every five seconds it's asking me to confirm, I'm like, okay, I did this, and I would you like me to complete the next step?
And I'm like, yep, and I'm like, okay, I've done this now, which I'm gonna complete the next step. And I'm like literally just don't ask me any more to confirm, just do everything. And then basically they're just not as good as like in my opinion, at this point, I would have paid $200 a month for chat GPT operators multiple times, I was paying for it last month. At this point, it's like, I still get a much better result.
I pretty much took my chat GPT operator prompt that I was giving it. I gave it to my virtual assistant. In the Philippines and she was able to get everything done and I never had to follow up with her. And she got it all done the next day without me ever having to click continue next, prompt it, change it, tweak it.
Now, is this a forever solution? No, this is getting better and better. So I would say definitely do not stop testing this. And chat GPT agents here, I think it's gonna be better than operators.
So definitely give that a try. But at the end of the day, we're still maybe three or four months away from this thing being super, super useful. We'll get there 100%. So don't take me being like, it couldn't do my thing.
It's useless. It's just, it feels like we're very, very close. We're on the cast, but I don't know if it's like, don't go fire all your employees and replace them with this right now because it's just not there yet. But this is gonna help us a ton.
And the number one thing that I've said over on LinkedIn, I've talked a lot about is, I'm super excited. I just want something that can take over all of my super repetitive mundane tasks that I have to do or that I hire a virtual assistants to do. It's great, but like the time difference between me and the Philippines, I'm gonna ask them to do something and if they're on the same time zone and doesn't get done until the point of hours later, if I just had something like this where I'm like, hey, like go into 100 of accounts of X, Y, Z, go scrape this data, go make sure, you know, validate all this things, update this and it just could go do it. That's fantastic.
I never want to do a lot of those tasks. I don't imagine many people want to do super repetitive tasks. So this could be a fantastic option for that, which I'm really excited for. And hopefully it'll be able to do more and more.
Will I like this thing, run my life and plan everything I'm doing? Probably not, but who knows? These things are getting better and better. Hey, thank you so much for tuning in to the podcast today.
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