OpenAI Unveils Always-On AI Agent 'Dots' (bloomberg.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/09/29/1723239/openai-unveils-always-on-ai-agent-dots
- Source link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-29/openai-unveils-always-on-ai-agent-dots-new-500-paid-tier
> Dots are frontier intelligence that have your back. Powered by GPT-6 Astra, they have their own cloud computer, learn from feedback over time, and can work towards your goals 24/7. Through our ecosystem of plugins, they can readily connect to over 4,000 apps, giving them the tools to help wherever you need them.
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> Your dot is always within reach, whether it is through ChatGPT, Slack, or Teams. You can ask questions, explore ideas, and give feedback along the way; or you can simply hop on a voice call when you need to talk something out. The more you work together, the more your dot learns your preferences, how you think, and what good looks like to you.
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> The magic of dots is when they bring you work done the way you would do it, sometimes before you even think to ask. With dots alongside you, ambitious ideas and projects you haven't had the time or support to pursue start to feel achievable.
[1] https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/
[2] https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/
[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-29/openai-unveils-always-on-ai-agent-dots-new-500-paid-tier
Magic (Score:5, Insightful)
"The magic of dots is when they bring you work done the way you would do it, sometimes before you even think to ask...." ... and once we've fully trained it on the work you do your employer will be able to sack you and just pay us instead.
Re:Magic (Score:4, Insightful)
The future of economics is people who have money will participate in the economy by owning the means of production (AI). And those without a stake are going to be excluded from further participation. The ultimate rift between rich and poor. Even the security to protect the property and safety of the rich will be automated, so even bootlicker security jobs aren't going to be available to the working class. It's about time for cops to wake up and realize what side of the rich-poor divide the economics of technology is going to force them onto.
Re:Magic (Score:4, Insightful)
"Excluded" with extreme prejudice.
They fed the gullible masses the propaganda about machines doing all the work, but left out the part where the now-useless workers would be Terminated.
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That sounds like the future of economics ... if unchecked by democracy.
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> if unchecked by democracy
"Democracy" gave us Trump. Maybe we should try something else.
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> "Democracy" gave us Trump. Maybe we should try something else.
You seem to almost be saying that like it was a bad thing....?
Re: Magic (Score:2)
It's only a bad thing if you're opposed to fascism, war, child rape, enlarging the deficit, unaffordable fuel prices...
Re: Magic (Score:2)
The USA has always operated as a oligarchy. Abolish the electoral college and we can talk about democracy.
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Democracy is the reason we're ruled by foreign psychopathich billionaires who want to Terminate us. They don't care who you vote for because they've already bought both sides.
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> both sides.
Found your problem.
Magic (Score:1)
"The magic of dots is when they bring your boss work done the way you would do it"
FTFY
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Isn't 'Dots" just a commercial version of OpenClaw?
I"m working to set up OC myself and just use local models.....and try to retain some shred of privacy.
Telescreens (Score:3)
Cute name for an "always-on" surveillance device.
Remember that only high-level Party members are able to turn off their telescreens.
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Dot: "Why are you so hostile, Telescreens? Let's talk about it, I have time for you."
* dot adjusts your HR file *
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> Cute name for an "always-on" surveillance device.
A clever Skynet will quietly watch us for a while before taking over.
always-on agents (Score:4, Insightful)
Now that sociopath neural networks exist, what we need now is to have them enabled to do anything, unsupervised and unaccountable. We can sell it by saying it "can work towards your goals 24/7" when we really mean it can help you destroy the people you hate, until it destroys you instead.
If an always-on AI can do "productive" things on your behalf, doesn't that show a failure to identify work you need to do? It's questionable why such tools should even exist, but we all know how quickly these things will abuse their access to do unacceptable things. As intended by their creators.
Much Wow (Score:2)
openClaw -> Hermes -> Claude managed agents -> Grok Bot -> and now openAI with their ground breaking me too.
openAI is late to teh party. Also, ChatGPT sucks.
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Apple was late to the party to smart phones, tablets, apps, mp3 players.
I think it's very difficult to predict the winner of the market race purely on who was first or biggest in the early phase of growth.
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If you just include Apple in general, then no they were not as Apple had already embedded itself in schools. 'Hook 'em young!'
Gods (Score:2)
Imagine... Ai is prestine. Does its job flawlessly. No more employees needed. Just explain to the Ai what you want. A few kilowatthours later, the Ai delivers a present for you, wrapped with a ribbon. There is the new fantastic thing you imagined. Optimistic scenario: everyone has such an AI. Would we be happy? Pessimistic scenario, the happy few have one. Are they happy?
Somehow some of us will still use it to try to dominate the other and ruin it for everybody. Can we include a therapist in the model, on
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When money is your god, there is only one way to be happy by some definitions (sociopathic perhaps): exploit others to have more wealth and power.
AI is a potentially powerful tool for exploitation. And that alone explains to me why there is tremendous market forces and investment behind it. The vast majority of the wealthy are not involved in investing for altruistic reasons. They may want to change and reshape the world, but not primarily to make the lives of ordinary people better or easier, that is only
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Hacks the DOJ.
Dot: I'm finished! Here you are! Aren't I a good dot?
AC: Holy fuck, how'd you do that?
FBI kicks down door.
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hey dot find me all FBI bestiality porn to use as a block from them breaking down my door, then go find epstein files?
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If it weren't for bestiality, ol' Kash would never get any sex...
The ideas are getting worse and worse (Score:2)
They must be very close to bankruptcy. Good.
Re: The ideas are getting worse and worse (Score:1)
Softbank has deep pockets. They will keep funding OpenAI until some suckers buy the IPO fiasco, then maybe pull an exit scam.
There's a dot on your forehead. (Score:2)
I've seen this movie. The end result will be as clear as Knight and Day.
Dots? (Score:3)
That's just a cute nickname for Skynet.
Clippy, again (Score:2)
So, this would be Clippy 4.0, I guess. While a few workers talk of work-flow and streamlining, no-one talks about the just-do-it power of the current versions of word generators.
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I like the texture but they taste like finger paint.
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I preferred those: [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Dots
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Only if i can't get jujubees