EP30: ChatGPT Agent Can Research For You, Security In The Age of AI, What AI Is Good For, AI Office Suite Wars Heat Up
The Family History AI ShowShow Notes
Co-hosts Mark Thompson and Steve Little explore OpenAI's groundbreaking ChatGPT Agent, demonstrating how this autonomous tool can research, analyze, and perform complex tasks on your behalf. Next, they address important security concerns to consider in the new world of AI agents, introducing practical guidelines for protecting sensitive family data and avoiding prompt injection attacks. This week's Tip of the Week provides a back-to-basics guide on what AI is and its four core strengths: summarization, extraction, generation, and translation. In RapidFire, they discuss OpenAI's rumored office suite, Microsoft and Google's own efforts to integrate AI into their office suites, and recently announced AI infrastructure investments, including; Meta's Manhattan-sized data center and President Trump's new AI Action Plan. The hosts also announce their new Family History AI Show Academy, a five-week course beginning in October of 2025. See https://tixoom.app/fhaishow/ for more details.
Timestamps:In the News: 05:20 ChatGPT Agent: Autonomous Research Assistant for Genealogists 22:49 Safe and Secure in the Age of AI
Tip of the Week: 36:20 What is AI and What is it Good For? Back to Basics
RapidFire: 50:57 OpenAI's Office Suite Rumors 53:56 Microsoft and Google Bring AI to Their Office Suites 60:17 Big AI Infrastructure: Manhattan-Sized Data Centers Resource Links:Introduction to Family History AI https://tixoom.app/fhaishow/
Do agents work in the browser? https://www.bensbites.com/p/do-agents-work-in-the-browser
Introducing ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-agent/
OpenAI's new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/709158/openai-new-release-chatgpt-agent-operator-deep-research
OpenAI's New ChatGPT Agent Tries to Do It All https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chatgpt-agent-launch/
Agent demo post https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1945896543263080736
OpenAI Quietly Designed a Rival to Google Workspace, Microsoft Office https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-quietly-designed-rival-google-workspace-microsoft-office
OpenAI Is Quietly Creating Tools to Take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/MSFT/pressreleases/33074368/openai-is-quietly-creating-tools-to-take-on-microsoft-office-and-google-workspace-googl/
What's new in Microsoft 365 Copilot? https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365copilotblog/what%E2%80%99s-new-in-microsoft-365-copilot--june-2025/4427592
Google Workspace enables the future of AI-powered work for every business https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/empowering-businesses-with-AI
Google Workspace Review: Will it Serve My Needs? https://www.emailtooltester.com/en/blog/google-workspace-review/ Tags:Artificial Intelligence, Genealogy, Family History, AI Agents, ChatGPT Agent, OpenAI, Computer Use, AI Security, Prompt Injection, Database Analysis, RootsMagic, Cemetery Records, AI Office Suite, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Google Workspace, Data Centers, AI Infrastructure, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Context Windows, AI Education, Family History AI Show Academy, AI Reasoning Models, Autonomous Research, AI Ethics
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