ChatGPT Doesn’t Need Prompts Anymore

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Hey there,

What happens when AI stops waiting for instructions and starts making decisions for you?

That's exactly what OpenAI just launched with ChatGPT Pulse.

This isn't just any other chat feature. It's AI that works while you sleep - researching topics, surfacing updates, and delivering personalized morning briefings before you even ask.

It connects to your Gmail, Google Calendar, and chat history to understand what matters to you. Then it curates everything into a feed of relevant information.

It's basically AI-powered doom scrolling, but with purpose.

But here's what got me thinking - are we shifting from commanding AI to being commanded by it?

The Proactive AI Problem

Think about it:

• Your AI now decides what information you should see

• It determines which topics deserve your attention

• It shapes your daily priorities based on its algorithms

• You're training it with feedback, but it's also training you to depend on its curation

This isn't just about convenience anymore. It's about who (or what) controls the narrative of your day.

The Job Displacement Reality Check

Speaking of being controlled by AI, OpenAI dropped some heavy numbers with their new GDPval benchmark.

They tested AI models on over 1,000 real-world professional tasks across 44 occupations. The results? Claude 3.5 Sonnet matches human expert performance in 47.6% of tasks.

Not 5%. Not 15%. Nearly HALF.

The tasks weren't simple either - they included:

• Legal document analysis

• Financial auditing

• Engineering drawings review

• Medical diagnosis support

• Marketing strategy development

Each task took humans an average of 6.5 hours to complete. AI did it in minutes.

But here's the twist - only 2.7% of AI responses were "catastrophically bad." The rest ranged from acceptable to human-level quality.

The AI-Native Future Is Already Here

While we're debating whether AI will replace jobs, Gen Z is already living in an AI-native world.

Meta just launched Vibes - it’s just like TikTok, but every video is AI-generated. Users don't upload content; they generate it.

Same scrolling interface. Same addictive algorithm. Same 16-second videos. But zero human-created content.

Initially, Meta is partnering with Midjourney and Black Forest Labs while they improve their own Movie Gen model. But the vision is clear - an entertainment platform where creativity is democratized through AI.

Sounds interesting until you realize we might be training an entire generation to consume AI slop instead of human creativity.

The Innovation Paradox

Here's what's fascinating though - while we worry about AI replacing humans, we're seeing unprecedented innovation at the edges.

Sakana AI just released ShinkaEvolve - an evolutionary framework that solves complex problems with 150 samples instead of thousands. It discovered new solutions to circle packing problems and even improved expert systems for competitive programming.

Skild AI unveiled their "robot brain" that can control any robot body, adapting to broken limbs or completely different hardware. Imagine Jarvis, but for physical machines.

These aren't incremental improvements. They're paradigm shifts happening in parallel.

The Real Question

So here's what I'm grappling with, and I want your take:

Are we becoming prompt slaves - dependent on AI to tell us what to think about, when to think about it, and how to act on it?

Or are we evolving into something more powerful - humans augmented by AI that handles the mundane so we can focus on the profound?

Because right now, it feels like we're in this weird liminal space where:

• AI handles our research (Pulse)

• AI matches our professional output (GDPval)

• AI creates our entertainment (Vibes)

• AI manages our workflows (agents everywhere)

But we're still the ones making the strategic decisions... right?

The next 12 months will determine whether AI becomes our best collaborator or our subtle master.

What do you think? Are you already using proactive AI features? And more importantly - do you feel in control of the relationship?

Hit reply and let's discuss. I'm curious whether you're seeing the same shift in your work.

- Aashish

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