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Time of India
18-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Ex-OpenAI employee reveals ‘unusual part of the company', says ‘There's a strong bias to…'
Calvin French-Owen , ex-engineer at ChatGPT maker OpenAI has shared a blog post, reflecting on his journey at the company. In the blog post, Calvin shared things he liked and didn't like working at OpenAI. He began his post by praising OpenAI, stating 'how quickly it's grown'. Calvin wrote 'When I joined, the company was a little over 1,000 people. One year later, it is over 3,000 and I was in the top 30% by tenure. Nearly everyone in leadership is doing a drastically different job than they were ~2-3 years ago.' Calvin continues talking about an unusual part of OpenAI which he says is 'that everything, and I mean everything, runs on Slack. There is no email.' He further added 'I maybe received ~10 emails in my entire time there. If you aren't organized, you will find this incredibly distracting. If you curate your channels and notifications, you can make it pretty workable.' In the post, Calvin revealed that OpenAI is 'very meritocratic'. Writing that 'leaders in the company are promoted primarily based upon their ability to have good ideas and then execute upon them. Many leaders who were incredibly competent weren't very good at things like presenting at all-hands or political maneuvering.' He says that this 'matters less at OpenAI then it might at other companies. The best ideas do tend to win'. He also points to a 'strong bias' in the company. Calvin writes 'There's a strong bias to action (you can just do things). It wasn't unusual for similar teams but unrelated teams to converge on various ideas.' Narrating his own experience, Calvin writes 'I started out working on a parallel (but internal) effort similar to ChatGPT Connectors. There must've been ~3-4 different Codex prototypes floating around before we decided to push for a launch. These efforts are usually taken by a small handful of individuals without asking permission.''Teams tend to quickly form around them as they show promise,' he adds. Bill Gates No Longer among Top 10 Billionaires: The Real Reason AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Yahoo
OpenAI 開始測試「ChatGPT Connectors」與企業常用服務相連
根據 TechCrunch 所瀏覽的一份文件，OpenAI 打算開始對名為「ChatGPT Connectors」的新功能進行 Beta 測試。ChatGPT Connectors 預期將允許 ChatGPT Team 層級的訂閱者將 Google Drive 和 Slack 帳戶連結到 ChatGPT，以便聊天機器人可以由這些帳戶中的檔案、簡報、試算表和 Slack 對話獲得資訊，以更精準的回答問題。 依據該文件，Google Drive 和 Slack 只是開始而已，未來 OpenAI 計劃將 ChatGPT Connectors 繼續擴展到其他平台，包括 Microsoft SharePoint 和 Box 等。 ChatGPT Connectors 自然是 OpenAI 為了使 ChatGPT 能成為企業 AI 化流程中不可或缺的一部份，而進行的嘗試。目前企業對於 AI 的態度依然兩極，在一些公司快速擴大 AI 使用的同時，也有一些公司對允許 ChatGPT 存取敏感的商業資訊表示保留。 ChatGPT Connectors 因為並不將文件資料留存在 ChatGPT 處，或許有機說服謹慎的公司高管改變立場。 根據該文件，ChatGPT Connectors 正在為特定的 ChatGPT Team 用戶提供 Beta 測試版本，它背後由 OpenAI 的 GPT-4o 模型的一個版本驅動，該版本可以根據「公司內部知識」來完善其回應。所有在 ChatGPT Team 工作區中的所有用戶都可以透過 OpenAI 的 ChatGPT app 存取該模型。 客製化的 GPT-4o 模型會搜尋並「讀取」可能與查詢相關的內部資訊。為了建立搜尋索引，OpenAI 仍然會在其 ChatGPT 伺服器上同步一份加密的公司檔案與對話。 為了保證 ChatGPT 不會洩露他們的私人資料，該文件強調 Slack 和 Google Drive 相關權限會「完全受到尊重」並且「持續更新」。例如，ChatGPT Connector 會自動同步 Slack 私人頻道的成員權限和 Drive 的檔案存取權限。員工將無法透過 ChatGPT 發現他們無法在 Google Drive 或 Slack 中存取的內容，同時管理員將能夠選擇 ChatGPT 能同步哪些 Slack 頻道和 Google Drive 檔案。 ChatGPT Connector 目前可以存取的內容也存在技術限制。 目前它尚不支援嵌入在檔案中的圖像，且只能「讀取」而不能分析 Google Sheets 和 Excel 中的資料。ChatGPT Connector 也無法檢索 Slack 私人訊息或群組訊息，並且會忽略來自 Slack 機器人的訊息。 相關新聞： OpenAI 與 Google 要求美國政府給予使用版權內容進行訓練的豁免權 MacOS 版 ChatGPT 現在可以直接讀取、編輯開發環境中的程式碼 GPT-4.5 登場：更高情商、知識更廣、減少幻覺 緊貼最新科技資訊、網購優惠，追隨 Yahoo Tech 各大社交平台！ 🎉📱 Tech Facebook： 🎉📱 Tech Instagram： 🎉📱 Tech WhatsApp 社群： 🎉📱 Tech WhatsApp 頻道： 🎉📱 Tech Telegram 頻道：
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
OpenAI to start testing ChatGPT connectors for Google Drive and Slack
OpenAI will soon begin testing a way for business customers to connect apps like Slack and Google Drive to ChatGPT. OpenAI plans to start beta testing a new feature called ChatGPT Connectors, according to a document viewed by TechCrunch. ChatGPT Connectors will allow ChatGPT Team subscribers to link workspace Google Drive and Slack accounts to ChatGPT so the chatbot can answer questions informed by files, presentations, spreadsheets, and Slack conversations across those accounts. OpenAI plans to expand ChatGPT Connectors to other platforms, like Microsoft SharePoint and Box, in the future, according to the document. "This will allow employees using ChatGPT to easily make use of internal information similar to how they can use world knowledge via web search," reads the document. ChatGPT Connectors is OpenAI's latest attempt to make ChatGPT an indispensable part of businesses' software toolkits. While some companies have expressed reservations about allowing ChatGPT to access sensitive business info, others have embraced the tech with open arms. ChatGPT Connectors could convince wary company executives to change their position — and present a formidable challenge to AI-powered enterprise search platforms like Glean. ChatGPT Connectors, which is launching in beta for select ChatGPT Team users, is powered by a version of OpenAI's GPT-4o model that can refine its responses based on "internal [company] knowledge," according to the document. All users in a participating ChatGPT Team workspace gain access to the model via OpenAI's ChatGPT apps. The custom GPT-4o model searches and "reads" internal information possibly relevant to a query. To create a search index, OpenAI syncs an encrypted copy of company files and conversations on ChatGPT's servers, per the document. "Additional related information which [sic] the model did not directly make use of is accessible by clicking on the sources button at the bottom of each response," the document reads. "When appropriate, the model will directly respond with a list of relevant results." Perhaps to assure customers that ChatGPT won't leak their private data, the document highlights that Slack and Google Drive permissions are "fully respected" and "kept continuously up to date." For example, ChatGPT Connector syncs Slack private channel memberships and Drive file permissions as well as directory information. Employees won't be able to discover content via ChatGPT that they can't access in Google Drive or Slack, according to the OpenAI document, and admins will have the ability to choose which Slack channels and Google Drive files are synced. As a slight downside, employees might get "substantially different" responses to the same ChatGPT prompts, OpenAI said in the document. There are technical limits to what ChatGPT Connector can access, as well. Images in Google Drive files (e.g. Google Docs, Google Slides, PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and plain text) aren't supported, according to the document, which noted that ChatGPT Connector can only "read" — not analyze — data in Sheets and Excel workbooks. ChatGPT Connector can't retrieve Slack DMs or group messages, and it'll ignore messages from Slack bots. Companies that wish to participate in the ChatGPT Connector beta are being asked to provide OpenAI with 100 documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and/or Slack channel conversations. The company said in the document it won't directly train on the information, but may use them "as input to synthetic data generation" that might be used in its training. "No data synced from Google Drive or Slack will be used for training," the document reads. OpenAI didn't respond to multiple requests for comment. Sign in to access your portfolio
