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Serena Ramirez Serena Ramirez

AI Agents: The Cost of Convenience

While AI agents like OpenAI’s Operator promise unparalleled convenience, their rapid rise raises pressing questions about job displacement, human agency, and whether we’re outsourcing more than just our to-do lists.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

AI Super Bowl: Musk vs. OpenAI

Elon Musk's $97.4 billion bid to acquire OpenAI was swiftly rejected by CEO Sam Altman, who quipped, "No thank you but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want." Concurrently, Tesla's European sales have plummeted, with declines of 60% in Germany and 63% in France, partly due to Musk's political endorsements.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

OpenAI Introduces Operator

Operator is an advanced AI assistant that combines text and visual understanding to navigate websites, automate tasks like booking and reservations, and mimic human-like problem-solving for seamless online interactions.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

OpenAI Says 'OpenBye' to Sam Altman

There is a sad irony that one of the first people to lose their jobs to AI was the founder of OpenAI.  It was announced today that Sam Altman was pushed out of OpenAI.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Ask ChatGPT About Santa Cruz

There has been a lot of commotion recently about OpenAI’s tool ChatGPT. We decided to test ChatGPT on how much it knows about the history of the Santa Cruz startup ecosystem.

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