Abstract

• You are restricted to 10 scheduled duties in ChatGPT, making it much less helpful.
• The dearth of conditional logic in duties results in repetitive and ineffective notifications.
• Enhancements like file uploads, essential alerts, and picture upgrades may significantly enhance the function.

When ChatGPT first introduced that it had added a function permitting you to create scheduled duties, I used to be excited. I had loads of concepts of ways in which this could possibly be actually helpful, from birthday or treatment reminders to operating bespoke searches every day. Nevertheless, the fact was a little bit disappointing.

ChatGPT’s scheduled job function remains to be in beta, regardless of being out for a number of months, and it has some vital limitations which are but to be fastened. It could possibly be so significantly better with just a few modifications.

Improve the Variety of Duties You Can Create

One of many greatest issues with scheduled tasks of their present type is you can solely have a most of 10 duties. As soon as you have created your tenth, it is not doable to create any extra scheduled duties with out first deleting one of many present ones.

Combining duties does not at all times assist, both. For instance, when you’ve got treatment that that you must take twice a day and need to arrange a reminder, you may create a single scheduled job that reminds you at two totally different instances every day. Nevertheless, regardless that that is saved as a single job, it appears to rely as two of your whole, in all probability as a result of it has to run at two totally different instances.

Add Conditional Logic

That is the place conditional logic would enhance scheduled duties enormously. I attempted making a unified birthday job with a listing of birthdays and directions to solely generate a response if the date was one week earlier than one of many birthdays on the checklist. Nevertheless, this job would create a notification day by day, saying one thing like “No birthdays at present,” and I could not discover a method to cease it from occurring.

The difficulty with that is that if you get a notification day by day saying nothing helpful, you rapidly begin to ignore them and find yourself lacking those which have helpful info. This could possibly be fastened by giving scheduled duties the power to make use of easy conditional logic. It might be so significantly better in case you may use prompts comparable to “IF at present’s date is one week earlier than any date on this checklist THEN output a message stating that it is that particular person’s birthday quickly ELSE do nothing”.

Utilizing conditional logic, you’d then solely obtain a notification on particular days. ChatGPT fashions can generate and perceive advanced code, so it appears possible that scheduled duties may help easy conditional logic.

Create Duties By Voice

Presently, the one method to create scheduled duties is by typing out your directions in one of many ChatGPT apps. This will get a little bit tedious, because the duties usually require an inexpensive stage of element. It might make life a lot simpler in case you have been capable of create duties utilizing ChatGPT’s voice mode.

Once you finish a voice chat in ChatGPT, the dialog is saved, with the whole lot you mentioned transcribed into textual content. There isn’t any motive, then, why it should not be doable to take the transcribed textual content and switch it right into a scheduled job. It might make ChatGPT really feel way more like a real personal assistant and would make it far less complicated to create scheduled duties on the fly when you’re doing different issues.

Permit Duties to Ship Crucial Alerts

A few of your scheduled duties could also be extra necessary than others. For instance, a scheduled job that reminds you to take your treatment is way more necessary than one which reminds you about any person’s birthday. It might be very helpful to have a method to make the precedence duties extra distinguished.

On my iPhone, I can obtain critical alerts, which make a sound when they’re delivered, even when my telephone is on silent. It might be very helpful to have the ability to select whether or not scheduled job notifications are delivered usually or as a essential alert. I may then get audible notifications for necessary reminders, which might lower via the limitless torrent of notifications I get on my telephone.

Make Duties Editable in Any App

Presently, you may create scheduled duties in any ChatGPT app and make modifications to them by getting into your amendments as a immediate. You too can pause a scheduled job inside any app by tapping the pause icon within the authentic job affirmation.

Nevertheless, within the majority of apps, there isn’t any method to see the small print of a scheduled job, comparable to its title, directions, and schedule. The one method to see and edit this stuff instantly is thru the ChatGPT net app.

The ChatGPT web app is presently additionally the one place the place you may delete scheduled duties utterly. This is not superb, as with the restricted variety of scheduled duties accessible, you usually must delete duties with a purpose to create new ones, and it is not doable to delete them from the cell or desktop apps.

Permit File Uploads or Customized GPTs

I can add a picture of my rubbish assortment schedule into the GPT-4o model in ChatGPT, and it may possibly determine the colour of every date on the schedule, which corresponds to which sort of rubbish bins I must put out. This is able to be superb for a scheduled job, as it will imply it may run each rubbish day and pull the knowledge instantly from the picture to inform me the proper colour to place out, even throughout the holidays when the schedule modifications.

Nevertheless, you may’t use uploaded recordsdata in scheduled duties, making this not possible. It is also not doable to make use of any custom GPTs in your scheduled duties, so in case you’ve created devoted GPTs to carry out particular duties, you may’t run these on a schedule, both.

Improve the Picture Technology

This one is a bone of competition for me. Considered one of my scheduled duties is meant to generate a humorous single-panel cartoon every morning. Since I set it up, it has been utilizing DALL-E image generation, which struggles with producing textual content, and the outcomes are normally unintentionally hilarious.

With the vastly improved image generation that is been added to ChatGPT just lately, I used to be wanting ahead to lastly with the ability to learn the textual content of my cartoons. I used to be additionally excited to see simply how significantly better they’d look with the brand new picture technology.

Nevertheless, whereas each ChatGPT mannequin now makes use of the up to date picture technology, scheduled duties still create images using DALL-E. It actually should not be exhausting to permit scheduled duties to make use of the far superior picture technology.

Seek for Information Updates

That is the function that I believe would make scheduled duties a game-changer. ChatGPT already knows a lot about me, comparable to my favourite music, the books I wish to learn, my favourite TV reveals, and extra. What I would like is a method to get necessary information about my favourite stuff with out asking for it.

For instance, it will be helpful in case you may create a scheduled job that ran day by day and looked for any necessary information about tour bulletins or album releases in your favourite bands or artists or search for information about new seasons of your favourite TV reveals or new books by your favourite authors. I’ve tried creating my very own simplified variations of those duties, however I at all times hit the identical issues: ChatGPT will ship a notification when the duty runs, it doesn’t matter what it finds, and can normally regurgitate the identical info that it discovered each earlier day.

It might be a killer function in case you may obtain a notification solely when your favourite band had introduced a brand new tour with dates close to your location, one in every of your favourite authors had a brand new e-book popping out, or the sport you have been ready to play lastly had a launch date.

ChatGPT has the potential to drag info from your entire earlier chats, so it will be capable of be taught what you favor and supply details about issues that you’ve got proven an curiosity in beforehand with out you having to sort out the whole lot that you really want it to search for.

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The scheduled duties function in ChatGPT has a number of promise, however it’s not dwelling as much as that promise. It appears like OpenAI has forgotten concerning the function, with nothing altering in a number of months. With some easy upgrades comparable to conditional logic, file uploads, and smarter alerts, it will flip a promising function into a very glorious one.