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GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta

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Re: GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta

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Post by dmadisetti »

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.

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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.

Re: GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta

#12

Post by arthurcolle »

dmadisetti wrote: post #11

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 w…

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

Re: GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta

#13

Post by [deleted] »

dmadisetti wrote: post #11

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 w…

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Re: GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta

#16

Post by sensanaty »

arthurcolle wrote: post #12
dmadisetti wrote: post #11

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 w…

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

> 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.

Re: GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta

#17

Post by danpalmer »

cbeach wrote: post #10
cbeach wrote: post #4

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…

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!

Glad to see that the thriving 2010 market of TODO list apps will see a resurgence in the AI era.

Re: GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta

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Post by ldjkfkdsjnv »

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

Re: GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta

#20

Post by dmadisetti »

arthurcolle wrote: post #12
dmadisetti wrote: post #11

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 w…

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

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.

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