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OpenAI today said that it added a new "Tasks" beta feature to ChatGPT, allowing ChatGPT to provide reminders for upcoming tasks. The feature supports one-time reminders or recurring actions, with users able to use conversational language to set up notifications for tasks.

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ChatGPT is able to do things like send a weekly global news briefing, provide a daily 15-minute workout, set reminders for completing a task like language practice, send a daily joke, create a meal plan each evening, provide reminders about upcoming events like birthdays, and more.


Reminders can be created in chat or through the tasks page under the profile menu, though the "4o with scheduled tasks" model needs to be selected. The new model is still rolling out to subscribers.

At the current time, Tasks is available to Plus, Pro, and Teams subscribers in a beta capacity, and in the future, it will be available to everyone with a ChatGPT account.

Article Link: ChatGPT Gains Support for Reminders and Tasks
 
Oh yes, we definitely need AI for managing our tasks and reminders… 🙄🤦‍♂️

These are baby steps. AI is simply the next technology that can be used to amplify the abilities and values of mankind. Those who embrace it and learn how to use it to multiply their effectiveness will continue moving into the future. Those who don't will be left behind. Smack your face all you want, but you'll be doing so in the past.
 
How many people would want to create a meal plan each evening ?

I think that most people plan their meals in advance before grocery shopping.

Just because you do something one way, it doesn't mean every one does. There's a whole world out there outside of your field of awareness. No, I don't plan every meal a week in advance. I buy groceries with foods I typically eat and then decide what I want to eat when the time comes to make it.
 
How many people would want to create a meal plan each evening ?

I think that most people plan their meals in advance before grocery shopping.

You're saying the presented use case isn't realistic, and then describing how the use case is realistic. I could tell ChatGPT "Hey, I do groceries on Tuesdays, write me a meal plan and grocery list to make it happen every week" and it'll do it unprompted going forward? That's hugely convenient.
 
These are baby steps. AI is simply the next technology that can be used to amplify the abilities and values of mankind. Those who embrace it and learn how to use it to multiply their effectiveness will continue moving into the future. Those who don't will be left behind. Smack your face all you want, but you'll be doing so in the past.

I find that it's a matter of how people see the world and their capacity for adaptation to new circumstances.

To some, often those who embrace novelty, it's immediately obvious how incredibly useful these things can be in augmenting your existing skills with new ones or accelerating your work with a partner that you can delegate to.

Others fear change, probably have had the same job forever and aren't capable of adapting to new roles or just simply like the way things are. They have a revolting feeling against anything that'll disrupt it so they refuse to see its usefulness — or simply can't.

The latter group is going to have a wake up call much sooner than they imagine when they finally realize that they're being left behind and have to learn how to use AI while the first group are by then experts in leveraging AI and already way ahead.
 
I was working with it today and I think it is getting dumber over time. Wouldn’t that be ironic? As they keep shoveling training data at it it gets so smart it’s stupid. *LOOKING AT SOME PROFESSORS I KNOW*
 
I find it ironic that AI articles tend to provoke luddites on a tech forum.
I find it even more ironic that a website dedicated to Apple stuff is so full of people who continually whine about Apple being so incapable of doing anything positive.

As for "AI" - current products like chatGPT are more about billionaires stealing the works of others than it is about anything else.
 
I don't plan on using ChatGPT for menu planning. But man, I'm having a lot of fun discussing the big issues of science, history, art and spirituality. There's no way google or bing can put together cogent debates the way ChatGPT does. And it's equally facile on both sides of any debate! I've only bested it twice in over a year. And it's still a baby, while I have 74 years in the arena.
 
No one cares about reminders and tasks through ChatGPT! The calendar has all those features.
If you read it.

I am my worst enemy with that issue. I have different apps which are reminding me to do things, but still I am used to click "ok" to bypass them. Better is a secretary. Or more clever system than passive notifications.
 
I find it ironic that AI articles tend to provoke luddites on a tech forum.
Trust me.
If OpenAI was an Apple created company, many here would be all over it.
Just how things are I'm sorry to say.

Myself I don't care whatsoever who invented or makes something. If it's good it's good.
Sadly there are a certain percentage of those who don't seem to feel that same.

That's fine. I mean, you have people who follow a particular music band, or make of car or something and will stick with them, no matter what, dismissing others in the process, and that's fine, we all have the right to choose and have preferences.
Just let's admit this is what happens :)
 
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