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Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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Post by anthuswilliams »

infecto wrote: post #13
anthuswilliams wrote: post #10

Without commenting on the product itself (I haven't tried it), the marketing copy around this release commits the same sins I have seen from Anthropic and Grok and all the rest of them. I'm so tired of seeing these companies trivializing other people's work! Nobody's job is "edit files" and "respond to messages"! People have jobs like "find and close leads" and "reconcile accounts" and "arrange student field trips" a…

While there definitely is a healthy dose of trivializing work I think once you scratch the surface the real messaging is that we can automate or optimize these parts of a current workflow to open work for higher value tasks to folks.

That sort of messaging has been done for decades with business process orchestration companies, RPA vendors, etc. All the way back to the original business software vendors like Lotus and Excel. It's only big LLM labs that adopt this tone of dismissive trivialization of other people's work.

Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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Post by hereme888 »

I just want a guarantee that OpenAI isn't just going to steal my ideas as I design my own agents. And if they did, I want compensation. I think of my custom skills, MCP servers, agents, etc, as intellectual property.

Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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Post by throwaway2016a »

What am I missing? I don't see it in either the MacOS app or the web app. I have a "Plus" plan. Do I need "Business" or "Pro"?

Edit: To answer my own question "Workspace agents are available in research preview in ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans."

Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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Post by zenapollo »

I’m helping a client move data from dozens of spreadsheet to an aggregate one. The elegantish solution is to use Python, each run takes about 5s and 1 cal of energy. If i hadn’t helped her write the script, she as a non techie could have started with something like this tool, and it’ll take 90s and use 200 cal of energy. The numbers are fudged a bit, but still, how can this be profitable, or ethical? To say nothing of the spontaneous hallucination that sneaks in from time to time, especially when the model gets silently lobotomized.

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Post by spacechild1 »

hereme888 wrote: post #32

I just want a guarantee that OpenAI isn't just going to steal my ideas as I design my own agents. And if they did, I want compensation. I think of my custom skills, MCP servers, agents, etc, as intellectual property.

Now that's a good joke! Do you think any of the writers, artists, software developers, etc. whose work has been unwittingly used for training these models received any compensation whatsoever? If you are so concerned with IP, you should immediately stop using this technology.

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Post by avaer »

hereme888 wrote: post #32

I just want a guarantee that OpenAI isn't just going to steal my ideas as I design my own agents. And if they did, I want compensation. I think of my custom skills, MCP servers, agents, etc, as intellectual property.

They will compensate agent engineers just like they compensated all of the developers, artists, academics, and editors that created the data models are trained on.

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Post by stingraycharles »

zenapollo wrote: post #35

I’m helping a client move data from dozens of spreadsheet to an aggregate one. The elegantish solution is to use Python, each run takes about 5s and 1 cal of energy. If i hadn’t helped her write the script, she as a non techie could have started with something like this tool, and it’ll take 90s and use 200 cal of energy. The numbers are fudged a bit, but still, how can this be profitable, or ethical? To say nothing o…

Because maybe the value she gets out of it is more than what it costs, even at the higher price?

Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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Post by eieke »

pzo wrote: post #4

I think I enjoyed OpenAI releases like ~1 year ago when they did video and presentation. This days with so many mini feature / releases is hard to be up to date or even figure out some use cases.

It’s a reflection of where they are at - spray and pray, pushing forward till the wheels fall off.
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