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 day by day climate report. The content material might be delivered as notifications on desktop (macOS), browser, and cell.
What does the duties characteristic in ChatGPT do?
The duties characteristic instructs ChatGPT to create content material at a sure date and time. This content material could also be preset reminders — akin to “Division assembly” — or newly generated textual content like affirmations or summaries of the information.
ChatGPT can counsel duties based mostly on conversations. Customers could set as much as 10 duties whereas the characteristic is in beta.
How you can arrange a process or reminder in ChatGPT
Duties is obtainable to Plus, Staff, or Professional-level subscribers.
To entry it, choose “4o with scheduled duties” within the mannequin picker. Customers at these tiers can create duties by ChatGPT on the net, on the desktop utility, or within the cell app. Nonetheless, the duties supervisor pane is barely out there by ChatGPT on an internet browser.
Within the duties administration pane, customers can specify particular dates for when the duties characteristic 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 traditional drop-down menu.
OpenAI plans to ultimately launch the duties characteristic to all tiers, together with without cost, the corporate said on X on Jan. 14.
OpenAI’s transfer towards agentic AI
Duties in ChatGPT proceed the development in generative AI of “agentic” instruments, which chain collectively a number of prompts autonomously to carry out comparatively complicated actions. Duties’ capacity to remind customers of upcoming conferences might compete with Google Calendar, Apple’s Siri or cell calendar, or Amazon Alexa.
The distinction between the duties characteristic and a traditional calendar or to-do record could also be seen most clearly in generative AI’s extra creative-sounding talents. For instance, considered one of OpenAI’s prompts is “Begin my day with day by day affirmations at 7 am.” That is agentic in that it combines a number of prompts: sending a reminder at 7 AM daily and producing an affirmation.
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Nonetheless, ChatGPT with duties replicates a lot of what present know-how can do, with the added problem of the generative side probably introducing inaccuracies and misunderstandings. Older functions can ship reminders with out utilizing as a lot vitality and assets.
In the meantime, each Google and Microsoft introduced adjustments to how they bundle 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 info.