Beginning Jan. 14, some ChatGPT subscribers can use the generative AI to set reminders or add to their routines. For instance, OpenAI stated, ChatGPT can present weekly information briefings or a each day climate report. The content material shall be delivered as notifications on desktop (macOS), browser, and cell.
What does the duties function in ChatGPT do?
The duties function instructs ChatGPT to create content material at a sure date and time. This content material could also be preset reminders — equivalent to “Department meeting” — or newly generated textual content like affirmations or summaries of the information.
ChatGPT can counsel duties based mostly on conversations. Customers might set as much as 10 duties whereas the function is in beta.
Easy methods to arrange a process or reminder in ChatGPT
Duties is offered to Plus, Workforce, or Professional-level subscribers.
To entry it, choose “4o with scheduled tasks” within the mannequin picker. Customers at these tiers can create duties by means of ChatGPT on the net, on the desktop utility, or within the cell app. Nonetheless, the duties supervisor pane is barely obtainable by means of ChatGPT on an online browser.
Within the duties administration pane, customers can specify particular dates for when the duties function ought to ship them reminders. Settings for recurring reminders are additionally discovered within the duties administration pane. Whereas the directions for the duty are given within the type of a pure language immediate, the date choice within the duties supervisor dashboard seems to be a standard drop-down menu.
OpenAI plans to ultimately launch the duties function to all tiers, together with free of charge, the corporate stated on X on Jan. 14.
OpenAI’s transfer towards agentic AI
Duties in ChatGPT proceed the pattern in generative AI of “agentic” instruments, which chain collectively a number of prompts autonomously to carry out comparatively advanced actions. Duties’ capability to remind customers of upcoming conferences may compete with Google Calendar, Apple’s Siri or cell calendar, or Amazon Alexa.
The distinction between the duties function and a standard calendar or to-do checklist could also be seen most clearly in generative AI’s extra creative-sounding talents. For instance, one in every of OpenAI’s prompts is “Start my day with daily affirmations at 7 am.” That is agentic in that it combines a number of prompts: sending a reminder at 7 AM day by day and producing an affirmation.
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Nonetheless, ChatGPT with duties replicates a lot of what current know-how can do, with the added problem of the generative side doubtlessly introducing inaccuracies and misunderstandings. Older functions can ship reminders with out utilizing as a lot power and assets.
In the meantime, each Google and Microsoft introduced adjustments to how they package deal generative AI on Jan. 15. Microsoft added brokers — based mostly on OpenAI’s GPT-4o — to the business tier of Microsoft 365. Google added Gemini Superior and Pocket book LM Plus to Google Workspace Enterprise and can add it to Enterprise tiers in late January.
TechRepublic has reached out to OpenAI for extra data.
