Beginning Jan. 14, some ChatGPT subscribers can use the generative AI to set reminders or add to their routines. For instance, OpenAI mentioned, ChatGPT can present weekly information briefings or a each day climate report. The content material will likely be delivered as notifications on desktop (macOS), browser, and cellular.
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 — resembling “Division assembly” — or newly generated textual content like affirmations or summaries of the information.
ChatGPT can recommend duties primarily based on conversations. Customers might set as much as 10 duties whereas the characteristic is in beta.
The way to arrange a process or reminder in ChatGPT
Duties is obtainable to Plus, Group, 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 software, or within the cellular app. Nonetheless, the duties supervisor pane is barely out there by ChatGPT on an online 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 standard drop-down menu.
OpenAI plans to finally launch the duties characteristic to all tiers, together with totally free, the corporate mentioned 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 advanced actions. Duties’ capacity to remind customers of upcoming conferences may compete with Google Calendar, Apple’s Siri or cellular calendar, or Amazon Alexa.
The distinction between the duties characteristic and a standard calendar or to-do checklist could also be seen most clearly in generative AI’s extra creative-sounding skills. For instance, certainly one of OpenAI’s prompts is “Begin my day with each day affirmations at 7 am.” That is agentic in that it combines a number of prompts: sending a reminder at 7 AM on daily basis 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 probably introducing inaccuracies and misunderstandings. Older purposes can ship reminders with out utilizing as a lot vitality and assets.
In the meantime, each Google and Microsoft introduced modifications to how they bundle generative AI on Jan. 15. Microsoft added brokers — primarily based on OpenAI’s GPT-4o — to the industrial 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.