May 31, 2025

AND YOU THOUGHT SMARTPHONE ADDICTION WAS DANGEROUS: OpenAI wants ChatGPT to be a ‘super assistant’ for every part of your life.

Thanks to the legal discovery process, Google’s antitrust trial with the Department of Justice has provided a fascinating glimpse into the future of ChatGPT.

An internal OpenAI strategy document titled “ChatGPT: H1 2025 Strategy” describes the company’s aspiration to build an “AI super assistant that deeply understands you and is your interface to the internet.” Although the document is heavily redacted in parts, it reveals that OpenAI aims for ChatGPT to soon develop into much more than a chatbot.

“In the first half of next year, we’ll start evolving ChatGPT into a super-assistant: one that knows you, understands what you care about, and helps with any task that a smart, trustworthy, emotionally intelligent person with a computer could do,” reads the document from late 2024. “The timing is right. Models like 02 and 03 are finally smart enough to reliably perform agentic tasks, tools like computer use can boost ChatGPT’s ability to take action, and interaction paradigms like multimodality and generative UI allow both ChatGPT and users to express themselves in the best way for the task.”

The document goes on to describe a “super assistant” as “an intelligent entity with T-shaped skills” for both widely applicable and niche tasks. “The broad part is all about making life easier: answering a question, finding a home, contacting a lawyer, joining a gym, planning vacations, buying gifts, managing calendars, keeping track of todos, sending emails.” It mentions coding as an early example of a more niche task.

Even when reading around the redactions, it’s clear that OpenAI sees hardware as essential to its future, and that it wants people to think of ChatGPT as not just a tool, but a companion. This tracks with Sam Altman recently saying that young people are using ChatGPT like a “ life advisor.”

Related: 2013’s Her: Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson Go Twenty Minutes Into the Future of AI.

Posted at 10:14 am by Ed Driscoll

IT’S AS ACCURATE AS BEAUCHAMP’S REPORT OF A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA:

Beauchamp is proof that you can have a career as a lefty “journalist”: while reporting the most outrageously obvious bullshit.

Posted at 9:58 am by Glenn Reynolds

#JOURNALISM:

Posted at 9:53 am by Glenn Reynolds

HAHA. BUT SMARMY WORDS ARE FREE AND THAT’S ALL THEY HAVE TO OFFER.

Posted at 9:52 am by Glenn Reynolds

ANOTHER HIDEOUS HERO FROM HELL: Elias Rodriquez, murderer in cold blood in public of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgren, is not somebody who deserves a one-way trip to the electric chair.

No, according to an obviously astroturfed response to Rodriquez’ arrest, the man is a hero and a sign of worse things to come in America. As Richard Pollock explains in his latest Substack column, the hero movement’s origins are suspect:

“The Tariq El-Tahrir Youth and Student Network, an obscure Middle Eastern-based group created the ‘Free Elias Rodriguez Organizing Committee’ and sought American and international co-sponsors. Twenty-nine groups publicly signed onto its manifesto.

“Tariq El-Tahrir hails Elias Rodriguez as a ‘resistance’ fighter. And they warn of more killings to come. The ‘student’ group clearly is a creation of Middle Eastern terrorist organizations and sold to America as a homegrown organization. There is no actual physical address listed for the group.

“But that didn’t deter 29 groups, a number of them American, who enthusiastically signed on to the shameful manifesto. One of the most prominent signatories was the Maoist wing of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Forty-six unnamed individuals also allegedly signed onto the document, according to their site. Quite a few of the signatories were from the Middle East.”

Posted at 9:03 am by Mark Tapscott

IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE TODAY: I strongly encourage you to read Rod Martin’s The Counterrevolution, which is an excerpt from his forthcoming book on what must be done and who must do it to save the Republic. Here’s a sample:

“This is the moment when FDR’s long counterrevolution reaches its own reckoning. The Deep State is rotting. Its courts have become legislatures, its agencies have become sovereigns, its laws unread, its processes unknowable. Its schools no longer educate, its currency no longer holds value, its borders no longer exist. It cannot win wars, balance budgets, or tell a man from a woman. The revolution is eating itself. And its answer, in typical Marxist fashion, is to demand ever-increasing control.”

And next steps?

“It is the road of decentralization and rebirth: of a people taking back responsibility from the state, of institutions rooted once more in families, churches, communities, covenants, and c