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GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta
Author : TheJCDenton
Score : 22 points
Date : 2025-01-14 22:25 UTC (34 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (chatgpt.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (chatgpt.com)
| PittleyDunkin wrote:
| Where are the release notes?
|
| Edit: I suppose they'll be here at some point:
| https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9624314-model-release-no...
|
| These seem like extremely shitty release notes. I have no clue
| why anybody pays for this model.
| TheJCDenton wrote:
| Nothing yet
| cbeach wrote:
| I'm sure it's brilliant, but I have no idea what it's capable of.
| What will it do? Send me a push notification? Have an answer
| waiting for me when I come back to it in a while?
|
| I switched over to the "GPT4o with scheduled tasks" model and
| there were no UI hints as to how I might use the feature. So I
| asked it "what you can you follow up later on and how?"
|
| It replied "Could you clarify what specifically you'd like me to
| follow up on later?"
|
| This is a truly awful way to launch a new product.
| benaduggan wrote:
| After asking it to schedule something, it prompted me to allow
| or block notifications, so sounds like this is just chatGPT
| scheduling push notifications? We'll see!
| jerpint wrote:
| So basically canibalizing Siri ?
| cbeach wrote:
| Ah, I've just stumbled on some hints after clicking around..
| click on your avatar image (top right) and then click "Tasks"
|
| Then there are some UI hints.
|
| "Remind me of your mom's birthday on [X] date"
|
| Wow, really maximising that $10bn GPU investment!
| danpalmer wrote:
| Glad to see that the thriving 2010 market of TODO list apps
| will see a resurgence in the AI era.
| TheJCDenton wrote:
| There is an editable tasks list and in the settings menu you can
| choose to receive notifications via push and/or email.
| zb3 wrote:
| The link doesn't work, presumably because I won't pay OpenAI
| which stole my API credits by making them have an "expiration
| date".
| dmadisetti wrote:
| The beta is inconsistently showing (required a few refreshes to
| get something to show up), but my limited usage of it showed a
| plethora of issues:
|
| - Assumed UTC instead of EST. Corrected it and it still continued
| to bork
|
| - Added random time deltas to my asked times (+2, -10 min).
|
| - Couple notifications didn't go off at all
|
| - The one that did go off didn't provide a push notification.
|
| ---
|
| On top of that, only usable without search mode. In search mode,
| it was totally confused and gave me a Forbes article.
|
| Seems half baked to me.
|
| Doing scheduled research behind the scenes or sending a push
| notification to my phone would be cool, but surprised they
| thought this was OK for a public beta.
| arthurcolle wrote:
| DateTime stuff is generally super annoying to debug. Can't
| fault them too badly. Adding a scheduler is a key enabling idea
| for a ton of use cases
| sensanaty wrote:
| > Can't fault them too badly
|
| The same company that touts their super hyper advanced AI
| tool that can do everyone's (except the C-level's,
| apparently) jobs to the world can't figure out how to make a
| functional cron job happen? And we're giving them a pass,
| despite the bajillions of dollars that M$ and VC is funneling
| their way?
|
| Quite interesting they wouldn't just throw the "proven to be
| AGI cause it passes some IQ tests sometimes" tooling at it
| and be done with it.
| dmadisetti wrote:
| Yeah, they're not exactly a scrappy startup- I'd be surprised
| if they had 0 QA.
|
| Makes me wonder if they internally have "press releases / Q"
| as an internal metric to keep up the hype.
| cbeach wrote:
| Agreed on date/time being a frustrating area of software
| development.
|
| But wouldn't a company like OpenAI use a tick-based system in
| this architecture?
|
| If the logic is event driven and deterministic, it's easy to
| test and debug, right?
| phgn wrote:
| What am I supposed to see at the link?
| ldjkfkdsjnv wrote:
| This is going to eat software, and is the beginning of agents.
| The orchestrator of these tasks will come, and OpenAI will turn
| into a general purpose compute system, the endgame of workflow
| software. Soon there will be a database, and your prompts will be
| able to directly read and write to an openai hosted postgres
| instance. And your CRUD app will begin to disappear. Programming
| will feel pointless
| worldsayshi wrote:
| Sure but do they have a moat here? Anyone that can connect to
| an LLM could make that app.
| rglover wrote:
| Possibly, but that's going to require 100% consistent, accurate
| outputs (tricky as that's not the nature of LLMs).
|
| Otherwise, you'll have a lot of systems dependent on these
| orchestrators creating hard-to-debug mistakes up and down the
| pipeline. With software, you can reach a state where it does
| what you tell it to without having to worry if some model
| adjustment or API change is going to break the output.
|
| If they solve that, then yes. Otherwise, what I personally
| expect is a lot of businesses rushing into implementing
| "agents" only to backpedal later when they start to have
| negative material effects on bottom lines.
| mulmboy wrote:
| https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/14/24343528/openai-chatgpt-r...
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