This week, Sam Altman announced his “favorite feature of ChatGPT so far.” It’s called Pulse, and according Altman, it “works for you overnight” by “thinking about your interests, your connected data, your recent chats, and more.” In the morning, you get a “custom-generated set of stuff you might be interested in,” akin to something a “super-competent personal assistant” might prepare. More broadly, he says, it represents “a shift from being all reactive to being significantly proactive, and extremely personalized.” And then, a recommendation: “It performs super well if you tell ChatGPT more about what’s important to you.”
These are the words of a CEO, of course, so we should expect him to be in sales mode. They’re also the words of a person who has not just adopted the language and jarg