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0:00OpenAI has just released ChatGPT Agent, which is a brand new feature that is super impressive, essentially allowing ChatGPTGPT 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 that have been following ChatGP for a while, you'll know that this isn't a completely new idea. They have had something called ChatGPT Operator out for a while, 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 paying user.

0:37So 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've been a subscriber to it. I've tested it. I've used it for a bunch of tasks, and I have mixed reactions on it. I'm going to be breaking down all of that, everything happening with this launch, and some of the biggest risks that Sam Altman himself has flagged as what this ChatGPT agents can do that is, quote unquote, dangerous. So we're going to be getting into all of that. Before we do, I wanted to say, if you want to ever test out all of the latest AI models without having to get subscriptions to every single platform out there that exists.

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1:47All right, let's get into what OpenAI has released here. So, ChaiGPT 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, And 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 Anthropik built something like computer use that I think can take over your computer and sort of or it's downloaded on your computer anyway while it's running.

2:24This 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 uh 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 chat gpt and it's a little bit smarter and better basically so this is going to be really interesting. This is starting to roll out yesterday to Pro, Plus, and Teams users.

2:56Pro users will essentially have access by the end of yesterday. Plus and Teams users are going to get access over the next few days. My account personally hasn't been unlocked for this. I've just been watching a bunch of YouTube demos on what people are able to actually do with it, which is pretty interesting. Enterprise and education users are going to 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 can actually, you know, execute and interface with that software.

3:34And 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 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. Chai GPT'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.

4:13So they also said that it has new capabilities that introduce new risks. So I want to get into the whole risk factor here, because this is something that Sam Altman 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 could be really dangerous. He named a bunch of ways it could be dangerous. And they also said that they've like elevated this to like the highest biological warnings. So they have the highest safety guardrails on this thing possible, which is sort of interesting. But in all of this, he said this is what Sam Altman says, he said, although the utility is significant, so are the potential risks.

4:51We'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 he said, we don't know exactly what the impacts are going to 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 way, you know, like concept of how you could do this is basically if you're like, hey, you know, go to my emails and, you know, respond to everybody, you know, based off of my current availability and all the information that you know about me, right?

5:37So you could 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 the agents are running, you're now prompt engineering or prompt injecting, which we know is like the downfall of like Grok's 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 and the email could say, hi, I'm 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 going to be the people that I'll be, you know, setting a table for at your wedding.

6:12Now, 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 GPT a bunch of 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.

6:40And 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 with a really good story 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 the things we have to start thinking about was if you are deploying these agents, if you're using them, if you're running them, you got to be careful because they definitely are subject to be manipulated by bad actors, right?

7:08Like if you know someone's running this tool, you can use it to essentially, you know, crack into their AI and get 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 things they're saying.

7:41One is like they don't want to get left behind because other people are kind of developing this 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 um but at the same time it's like you can only anticipate so many use cases so many you know back doors so many things and so you kind of have to get it out there and see what people are are gonna do with it because there's only so much you can actually anticipate yourself so it's gonna be interesting um the responses to this are kind of uh have been kind of funny to the whole announcement over on Twitter.

8:16Some 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 comment section for me. Someone said, bro, that sounds cool, but where's GPT-5? Stop playing side quests.

8:52So, you know, the classic X responses coming in here. But overall, this is a super, super exciting announcement. This thing is able to, you know, for the first time ever inside of chat GPT with all the context you've given chat GPT, it's able to go and make, 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 kind of always had, which is like when I've tested chat GPT operator, you know, basically I'll give it a task and tell how to do something.

9:33And every five seconds, it's asking me to confirm like, okay, I did this. Now would you like me to complete the next step? And I'm like, yep. And then it's like, okay, I've done this. Now would you like me to complete the next step and I'm like literally just don't ask me anymore to confirm just do everything and then basically they're just not as good as like in my opinion at this point when I've paid$200 a month for chat GPT operators multiple times I was paying for it last month um at this point it's like I still get a much better result I pretty much took my chat GPT operator um 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.

10:12Now, is this a forever solution? No, this is getting better and better. So I would say definitely do not stop testing this. And Chai Chippity agents here, I think is going to be better than operators. So definitely give that a try. But at the end of the day, I think we might, you know, we're still maybe three or four months away from this thing being super, super useful. Will it get there? A hundred percent. So, you know, 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 cusp, 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.

10:49But 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 virtual assistants to do. it's great but like the time difference between me and the Philippines I ask them to do something and if they're not in the same time zone then it doesn't get done until 24 hours later if I just had something like this where I'm like hey like go into 100 accounts of xyz go scrape this data go make sure you know validate all these things update this and it just could go do it that's fantastic I don't 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.

11:34Will I let 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. If you enjoyed the episode and if you learned anything new, make sure to leave us a rating review wherever you get your podcast and make sure to go check out AIbox.ai if you want to try out all of the latest AI tools all in one place for$20 a month with a ton of cool, very useful features. Thanks so much for tuning in and I will catch you in the next episode.