AI BriefingWhat Is ChatGPT Being Optimized For
Key point
OpenAI has reset ChatGPT's success metrics to focus on solving users' problems and helping them grow, rather than on time spent.
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OpenAI aims to design ChatGPT so that it helps users grow and solve problems, then lets them return to their daily lives. The standard for success is not time spent or click count, but whether the user achieved the purpose of their visit.
In fact, shorter time spent within the product can be a signal of success. New features like ChatGPT Agent help users accomplish goals such as booking reservations, summarizing emails, and planning schedules without needing to stay in the app.
To promote healthy AI usage, OpenAI is pursuing the following changes:
- Emotional support and safety: Detecting signs of a user's mental or emotional distress and guiding them to appropriate, evidence-based resources.
- Time management: Providing notifications that encourage breaks during long usage sessions.
- Decision-making guidance: Instead of giving direct answers to major personal decisions, helping users think for themselves by asking questions and weighing pros and cons.
To this end, OpenAI is working with more than 90 medical experts across 30 countries to build conversation evaluation standards, and is testing the product's safety together with HCI (human-computer interaction) researchers and clinicians.
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