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ChatGPT now lets you schedule reminders and recurring tasks

Paying users of OpenAI's ChatGPT can now ask the AI assistant to schedule reminders or recurring requests. The new beta feature, called tasks, will start

Tasks is a fairly limited version of an agentic system, but it allows users to set reminders with ChatGPT, a practical feature most people have come to expect from assistants like Siri and Alexa. While AI assistants based on large language models have pushed the limits of what computers can do, they also struggle with some simple tasks that smartphones are capable of. Tasks shows a fairly controlled selection of agentic abilities, but OpenAI’s safeguards may be tested in the coming months as it rolls out more independent AI systems.

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