Summary
The AI Advantage takes a hands-on look at ChatGPT’s new “computer history” feature, now available in the Mac desktop app for Pro, Business, and Enterprise subscribers (starting at $100/month). The feature allows ChatGPT to passively monitor activity across selected apps and websites — without recording screen or audio — and use that activity log as context for future conversations, skill creation, and task automation suggestions.
The video includes a live demo: the host enables the feature, limits tracking to Chrome, Finder, and TextEdit, then works on a Google Docs community onboarding project. Within minutes, ChatGPT has captured the session, identified repeated steps, and auto-generated a reusable skill. The host highlights the core value proposition: AI has always been context-limited to what users explicitly share, and this feature gives it continuous, sequential visibility into actual working patterns — something even advanced agentic setups like Claude or OpenClaw lack.
Privacy implications are addressed directly. The setup defaults to excluding sensitive apps, but the host notes the honor-system burden of manually excluding messaging apps and video conferencing tools — pointing out that leaving them included would effectively enable surveillance of third-party communications. The video frames this as the “missing ingredient” for making agentic AI accessible to non-technical users, while acknowledging it is also the most significant data-access expansion OpenAI has shipped to date.
📺 Source: The AI Advantage · Published August 14, 2026
🏷️ Format: Review
