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OpenAI Introduces Tasks: OpenAI has just rolled out a new feature on ChatGPT, and with it, the users can now schedule reminders and actions for the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. Currently the new feature, called Tasks, is on offer for paying users/subscribers of the AI platform, but the company has affirmed that the feature will be available for free later this year. The feature is a step forward in introducing agentic capabilities of AI models to its popular chatbot.

OpenAI introduced Tasks in a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter), with the feature currently available in beta to ChatGPT Plus, Teams, and Pro users. It is set to roll out to free-tier users later this year. At present, the Tasks page can only be accessed through the web version of the platform.

 

As of now, the company intends to use the beta period to enhance its understanding of how people use this feature and to fine-tune it before it is made available for free. On top of that will not be able to use the Advance Voice Mode to set tasks.

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To simply put it Tasks is basically a feature that lets you do scheduling. On the ChatGPT web, users have the option to enter a prompt in the text field or access the Tasks page through the profile menu to create a new task. These tasks can be set as one-time reminders for a specific date and time or as recurring tasks. Additionally, users can instruct the chatbot to complete a task at the scheduled time.

The feature can be utilised to get daily news summaries in the morning or a motivational message right before you do a challenging task. As prompts can be used to set up Tasks, users can just type a natural language message such as "Send me a summary of the top 10 latest news of the day at 8:30 pm on weekends" and your work is done, it will set up a schedule for you.

Although the scheduling aspect of this feature is not revolutionary (as smartphone clock apps offer similar reminder functions), the ability to have the AI “perform an action” at a future time is intriguing. While this isn't truly an agentic function—since no actions occur outside the chatbot platform—it still demands that the AI utilize memory and multi-step execution to generate text or images at the specified time. Such combined capabilities are typically linked with AI agents.

Rumours tell us that OpenAI is currently working on its first AI agent, dubbed Operator, for some time now which would be capable of writing codes and book travel, and Tasks could be its first step towards that goal which is for AI models to function somewhat independently. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts that 2025 will be a major year for AI agents, even asserting that they will "join the workforce" during this time.

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