OpenAI agent time starts with ChatGPT Tasks

ChatGPT is taking a big step towards becoming a full-blown personal assistant by unveiling a new feature called Tasks. This could indicate that Open AI it will release more agents in the future.

Currently in beta, Tasks allows ChatGPT Plus, Team and Pro users to schedule tasks in advance.

For example, if someone wants to receive project reminders or daily weather updates, they can trigger ChatGPT, which will notify them at the date and time of their choosing. Tasks can be recurring or one-time reminders.

To organize an action, users should move to “4o with scheduled actions” on the builder of the model and write a reminder. ChatGPT can also suggest actions from previous conversations.

Actions work with all versions of ChatGPT and send calls via desktop, web and mobile. However, users can only access the task manager on the web version of ChatGPT.

OpenAI said the beta period will help its researchers “understand how people use Tasks and refine the feature before it's available to all ChatGPT users.”

Actions come together with other assistant-like features for ChatGPT. During its “12 Days of OpenAI” event in December, OpenAI screen sharing launchedallows users to open ChatGPT while reading a text message and ask them to help them reply.

OpenAI's first agent?

Rumors swirled around OpenAI releasing an AI agent when some users caught ChatGPT enabling scheduled actions as far back as December. The agent, known as Operator, was the company's first agent.

People thought that Tasks could be a precursor to the operator. X user @kimonismusaka “Chubby,” he said, “The Information it seems to be correct and everything is being prepared for the release of 'Operator', i.e. the agent of OpenAI. The 'Tasks' function found by Tibor seems to be the first important step in the preparation of Operator. It is doubtful whether we will get a release this month or just a preview.”

News test catalog on X Theorized Tasks could allow ChatGPT to find specific information, summarize data, open websites, access documents and think through problems.

VentureBeat reached out to OpenAI about Tasks and Operator. The company declined to answer the question, saying only that Tasks “will be an important step in making ChatGPT a more helpful AI companion.”

OpenAI has already made its first foray into the agent role with Swarma framework he put out to help guide AI agents.

Making ChatGPT a better assistant

If you're like me, you probably use the Reminders app and Google Calendar too much to remind yourself to text Happy Birthday or your brunch plans, or to alert you about news embargoes and scheduled interviews.

There are many reminder, calendar and productivity apps available for both consumers and enterprises. These include Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, Asana, Trello and Notion. The productivity assistant space is not short of applications that remind individuals and teams of tasks they need to complete.

OpenAI's big play is in such an interesting space, especially since most people don't think of chatbots as registration assistants. But ChatGPT is already streamlining the process for users to transfer their coding or writing tasks to the platform or to browse the web without leaving the chat interface. ChatGPT is even open to developers IDE almost automatically for them.

As ChatGPT adds more functionality to its platform, setting up scheduled tasks and reminders isn't as far-fetched. This makes ChatGPT a viable competitor to many productivity and scheduling applications.