OpenAI's always-on assistant 'dots' comes with a human assistant

What BBN said about it

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe OpenAI executive in charge of dots, its new always-on personal assistant, says he never intends to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOkay, that's a reasonable boundary. So who takes the meeting?

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentA person. Alexander Embiricos says OpenAI's corporate partners still want a human, so he has a human assistant, per TechCrunch.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe guy selling the assistant to everybody keeps a human one.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentHe also celebrated when his wife started leaving her computer on all night so her agents could keep working. That's the whole product: it never clocks out, and somebody else's person does.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOkay, but he found out very late that Elon Musk owns the dot-com address. That's a rough one.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentVerdict: a good idea, with a catch that's on the payroll.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHonestly, the human assistant is the only part of dots that gets invited to the meeting.