OpenAI's product manager discusses the "third era" of AI: Agents will become collaborators during their growth phase, and corporate competition will shift to "who can steer the ship better."
If chat is the first era of AI products, and agents are the second era, then what might the third era be?
Tara Seshan, product lead for OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT Work, offers the answer: an AI colleague who can work long-term and collaborate with you repeatedly.
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