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At Developer Day, OpenAI unveiled dots, an always-on personal assistant. Alexander Embiricos, OpenAI's head of enterprise products, recounted the origins of dots at TechCrunch Disrupt, saying most of its capabilities could be achieved with Codex, the coding tool released earlier this year, but required more manual operation. dots has a built-in mechanism called proactive research, which periodically combines known information with content the user has authorized access to in order to proactively research how to help. Privacy controls are the same as ChatGPT's: model training can be turned off and accessible computer resources can be restricted, but the controls are still not granular enough, and read-only access to cloud drives is not accepted. Embiricos said OpenAI is not the fastest at getting agents to collaborate with the outside world and is in deep talks with several payment processors.
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How OpenAI turned a coding tool into the always-on assistant dots
At TechCrunch Disrupt, OpenAI enterprise product lead Alexander Embiricos described the origins of the always-on personal assistant dots, saying most of its capabilities could be achieved with the coding tool Codex released earlier this year, but would require more manual operation. dots has a built-in mechanism called proactive research, which periodically combines known information with content the user has authorized access to in order to proactively research how to help; privacy controls are the same as ChatGPT's, allowing users to turn off model training and limit the computer resources it can access, but the controls are still not granular enough, and it does not accept read-only access to cloud drives. Embiricos said OpenAI is not the fastest at enabling agents to collaborate with the outside world, and is in deep discussions with several payment processors.