OpenAI’s agent era begins with ChatGPT tasks

With the release of a new feature called Tasks, ChatGPT takes a significant step towards a full-fledged personal assistant. This could be a signal for that OpenAI will release more agents in the future.

Currently in beta, Tasks allows ChatGPT Plus, Teams, and Pro users to plan actions in advance.

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

To set up a task, users should toggle to “4o with scheduled tasks” in the model selection and compose a reminder prompt. ChatGPT can also suggest tasks from previous conversations.

Tasks work with all versions of ChatGPT and send notifications across desktop, web, and mobile devices. However, users can only access Task Manager via the web version of ChatGPT.

OpenAI said the beta phase will help its researchers “understand how people use Tasks and refine the feature before rolling it out to all ChatGPT users.”

Tasks complement other wizard-like features for ChatGPT. During the “12 Days of OpenAI” event in December, OpenAI presented Screen sharing startedThis allows users to open ChatGPT while reading a text message and ask it to help them respond.

OpenAI’s first agent?

Rumors of OpenAI releasing an AI agent began circulating when some users caught ChatGPT providing access to scheduled tasks back in December. The agent called “Operator” would be the first agent of the company.

People believed Tasks could be the precursor to Operator. X user @kimmonismaka “Chubby,” said: “The information seems to be correct and everything is being prepared for the release of “Operator”, i.e. the OpenAI agent. The “Tasks” function found by Tibor seems to be the first important step in preparing Operator. It’s questionable whether we’ll get a release this month or just a preview.”

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VentureBeat reached out to OpenAI for tasks and operators. 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 world Agent room with Swarma framework released to support the orchestration of AI agents.

Making ChatGPT a better assistant

If you’re like me, you probably use the Reminders app and Google Calendar too often to remind yourself to send a happy birthday to a relative or your brunch plans, or to alert you to news blackouts and scheduled interviews make.

There are numerous reminder, calendar and productivity apps available for both consumers and businesses. These include Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, Asana, Trello and Notion. In the productivity assistant space, there is no shortage of applications that remind individuals and teams of tasks they need to complete.

OpenAI’s large role in such a crowded space is interesting, especially since most people don’t think of chatbots as scheduling assistants. But ChatGPT is already streamlining the process for users to migrate their coding or writing tasks to the platform or browse the web without leaving the chat interface. ChatGPT even opens to developers IDE almost automatically for them.

As ChatGPT adds more actions to its platform, setting up scheduled tasks and reminders is no longer so far-fetched. This makes ChatGPT a real competitor for many productivity and planning apps.