OpenAI's goal for ChatGPT is to hide model selection from users entirely. Right now, dropdowns let you pick between ChatGPT and Codex, and toggle between chat and work modes. Eventually, the system should automatically choose the right model based on what you're trying to do, without you having to decide.
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I want to talk about ChatGPT, the app, briefly. So I have it open right now. There's a dropdown and there's ChatGPT and Codex. And then there's this toggle, chat and work. Tara, what is going on?
Our North Star here is that users do not need to make decisions between picking between all these different options. Ideally, there is no toggle here that you go to the box, you type in your task. Like, I would like to build a really awesome app that helps my podcast guests do research before episodes. And it will pick the right harness. It'll pick the right model for you to be able to get that thing done. Ideally, the choice here is not on our users to have to pick between all these different concepts and understand not only what are they trying to do, but understand the limitations and capabilities of our products. In the near term, picking between ChatGPT and Codex is really a choice for, do you want to stay in sort of like more development-oriented UI, or do you want to have the same power and capabilities in the ChatGPT mode? And then when you're in ChatGPT, if you want to have conversations, if you want to search, That's where chat mode is the right thing. But in work mode, that's where under the covers, this is Codex. We've removed some of like the coding UI, but it is the same power to get things done. For example, generate like a really complex financial model. That's all possible in work mode.
