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🧞‍♂️ChatGPT’s Fix for Toxic Relationships With Chatbots

♟️A New Benchmarking Platform Built Around Chess?!

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OpenAI claims they’ve shifted from trying to optimize for engagement to prioritizing meaningful utility. In other words, the goal isn’t to hold your attention, but to help you use it well.

So, why the sudden shift in approach? If ChatGPT genuinely helps you, you tend to return daily, weekly, or monthly because it’s useful enough to come back to.

In other words, if ChatGPT enables you to make progress, learn something new, or solve a complex problem, it promotes retention that’s earned, not engineered.

Starting today, you’ll see gentle reminders during long sessions within ChatGPT to encourage you to take breaks. The purpose is to help you keep control of your time and reduce emotional dependency on the conversational chatbot.

It’ll also help you solve personal challenges by providing step-by-step guidance that encourages rational thought. In simpler terms, ChatGPT will guide rather than dictate. For example, if you ask: “Should I break up with my boyfriend?” ChatGPT won’t give you an immediate answer. Instead, it’ll help you weigh the benefits and drawbacks.

This shift reflects a bold departure from The Attention Economy: capturing your attention long enough to drive a click, scroll, or sale. Instead, OpenAI’s focused on earning your return by being genuinely useful.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out his controversial vision for ChatGPT to transform from a reactive chatbot to a proactive companion that documents, understands, and anticipates everything in your life.

The first event features a live chess tournament between eight AI Models, including xAI’s “Grok 4,” OpenAI’s “OpenAI o4-mini,” Google’s “Gemini 2.5 Pro,” and Anthropic’s “Claude Opus 4.”

To play chess, the AI Models constantly capture the Game State: a current snapshot of the digital chessboard. This snapshot enables them to process the various positions of all the chess pieces. Then, they generate a sequence of actions through legal chess commands, such as: “Move Black Knight to Nf6!”

It’s single-elimination, best-of-four matches. The first AI Model to score two points (i.e., one point per win, half a point per draw) advances to the next round. If an AI Model attempts to perform an illegal chess move, it receives up to three retries. If it fails after those three retries, the chess move is invalidated, but the chess match continues without an immediate forfeit.

Classic strategy games like chess provide a clear, unambiguous signal of success: you either win, lose, or draw. Their structured nature, strategic layers, and measurable outcomes make them perfect for evaluating AI Models and AI Agents.

They also force AI Models and AI Agents to demonstrate strategic reasoning, long-term planning, and the ability to dynamically adapt to an intelligent opponent.

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Clarity: I need to pinpoint what’s holding me back.

Guidance: Can you help me identify actionable strategies to efficiently achieve {Insert Specific Goal} without wasting time, energy, or effort?

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