New Feature "Tasks" (Beta) rolling out

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New feature Tasks (Beta) on ChatGPT rolling out:

Official information is on the https://help.openai.com below:

Scheduled tasks in ChatGPT

On ChatGPT:

https://chatgpt.com/tasks

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Right on.

I’m not really sure what I can do with this & vanilla ChatGPT, but once this comes for GPTs w/ Actions it’ll be a very potent tool.

Thanks for sharing

EDIT: It does look like Tasks comes equipped with Search. That’s pretty cool.

I can see this becoming very potent and powerful. Once Operator is out. Wow.

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A simple test:

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Test-2:

AMAZING! It completed four tasks, WELL DONE!

BUT, Canvas was not opened.

EDIT:

After completing a writing task in Canvas, if the page is refreshed, Canvas becomes visible. However, while writing, the Canvas window cannot be opened, and I tested this twice.

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I noticed it said Android was included. I’ve been a plus subscriber since it came out and I’m in the beta for Android.

I downloaded a beta update today for the app and there is a settings option for Notifications for Tasks, but there’s no option to select or use tasks on the app.

I dislike Google’s reminder system and was hoping to setup even some basic reminders with this to test it, but no luck for Android yet.

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It’s erratic here.

  • I created a test task to drink water from android app, it didn’t fired (yes, notifications and permissons ok).
  • I created a “send a summary with the main news” and it worked push and email.
  • I created another “dring water” task, this time hourly from 8am to 6pm and it fired only email.
  • Notifications are just a button to go to chatgpt, so I wonder how this could be better because we create tasks by chatting. If I create multiple tasks in a same chat it starts to be very confusing. If I miss a notification (or it’s not fired) where could I check them? I believe we could make a separate chat for every task, but this starts to be a mess.
  • I created another “read news” task and this happened:
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    where are the news?

Another thing: Since tasks are now inside a MODEL, and ChatGPT use to change model for new chats sometimes, I shared a doc today to chatgpt app and started to chat. then I realized the model selected for that was 4o-tasks, lol.

They need to improve this feature, I believe. Make it more reliable and organized.

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I found out I didn’t receive any updates because the model misinterpreted: it created a task saying “notify me to check news…” and instead of showing me the news, it just reminded me to check the news. And in English (the chat’s default language and language for ChatGPT wasn’t set to English), but I edited it and specified better.

So it brought the news, but from the US and in English again. I edited the prompt and specified the country and language.

Then, the news came as expected, but with a “small” problem, hehe: a list of “fake news”:

There were 4 news items: politics, economy, technology, and climate.

  • Politics: from 2022.
  • Economy: from late 2023.
  • Technology: I don’t think it ever existed, I couldn’t find it.
  • Climate: no idea, but it’s not from today, so it could be from any date.

This happened because I went to research, as the response provided the sources, but they were links to the homepage of each portal.

Well, I remain hopeful that it will work. I’ll try again tomorrow.