According to a recently disclosed OpenAI strategic document, the company plans to turn ChatGPT into a "super assistant" by the first half of 2025 to challenge Apple's market position for Siri. This document was declassified through the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Google, revealing OpenAI's grand blueprint for the future development of ChatGPT.
The document points out that OpenAI hopes ChatGPT will become an intelligent assistant with T-shaped skills. The so-called T-shaped skills mean that it not only has broad foundational skills to handle everyday chores, such as answering questions, finding housing, contacting lawyers, joining gyms, planning vacations, buying gifts, managing schedules, tracking to-do lists, and sending emails, but also has deep professional capabilities to deal with more complex tasks, such as programming.
As ChatGPT gradually expands to a wider user base, OpenAI plans to continuously adjust its depth skill section based on user needs. The recently launched cross-conversation memory function and Operator feature have enabled ChatGPT to directly operate platforms and interfaces, which is highly consistent with the description in the strategic document. OpenAI hopes ChatGPT will no longer be just a tool that needs to be opened in a browser or app, but can accompany users like Siri, listening and providing help at any time.
In addition, the document emphasizes the importance of OpenAI's new generation of models and the necessity of developing proxy tools for web browsing, code writing, and device control. Although the document does not explicitly mention hardware, considering OpenAI's recent collaboration with designer Jonathan Ive, it seems that hardware-related layouts are also in the works.
OpenAI's challenges extend beyond the technical level and involve competition for market position. The document clearly states that OpenAI aims to challenge "powerful incumbents" who rely on their own market positions to promote their own products. Although ChatGPT has become an alternative option for Siri over the past year, OpenAI clearly isn't satisfied with this. The company calls for users to freely choose their own artificial intelligence assistants, allowing ChatGPT to be set as the default option on iOS, Android, and Windows systems. At the same time, they also require companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft to allow users to select default search engines and enable artificial intelligence assistants like ChatGPT to access their underlying indexes.
Currently, Apple's development strategy in the AI field seems somewhat confused. The leadership of Siri was recently transferred to Mike Rockwell, who is in charge of Vision Pro, while Robbie Walker, who previously oversaw Siri, leads a new project called "Knowledge." This is rumored to be Apple's response to ChatGPT, but the project has encountered similar delay issues as the reform of Siri.
Key Points:
🌟 OpenAI plans to turn ChatGPT into a "super assistant" with T-shaped skills to challenge Apple's Siri.
🛠️ New features like cross-conversation memory and Operator give ChatGPT stronger operational capabilities, with the goal of always being available to serve users.
🔍 OpenAI calls for users to freely choose their own AI assistants and strive to set ChatGPT as the default option across all platforms.