OpenAI launches 'Tasks' feature to compete with Alexa and Siri

OpenAI Launches 'Tasks' Feature to Compete with Virtual Assistants

Tasks is one of the shared tools of the application where users can set one-time alerts for certain events, for instance, sale of concert tickets or due dates among others. This functionality provides a similar level of convenience to existing reminder functions of virtual assistants and enables ChatGPT to help users manage their timely activities and events.

Not limited to single message prompting, with Tasks feature one can schedule repeating activities, like, offering the weather forecast every day or the headlines every week. This makes it more personalized allowing users to be notified of contents they would be interested in at regular intervals. These are the repeatable tasks incorporated into ChatGPT through OpenAI’s constant update that expands ChatGPT’s capabilities to address other basic user requirements.

Open AI’s entry into this area marks the increasing capability of generative AI as a double duty AI virtual assistant. Awakening the feature that allows users to enter the scheduler of some tasks, reminders, and updates, make ChatGPT more helpful in organizing the users’ day and being informed about the occurred changes.

Thus, as the AI technology advances, the difference between conversational assistants and virtual assistants becomes increasingly smoothed out. OpenAI’s expansion of Tasks additionally expands upon the functionality of ChatGPT and creates competition for applications like Siri and Alexa as they are forced to develop more complex features in order to maintain a firm grasp on consumers.

ChatGPT to Suggest Tasks as Amazon Revamps Alexa with GenAI

New to ChatGPT, the “Tasks” feature will not only let the user ask for reminders and actions but also proactively provide suggestions based on user interactions. These suggestions will be recommended to individual users and can either be taken or declined by the users. This gives an additional layer of functionality to the ChatGPT and makes it as more active and providing solution based interface to the user.

The introduction of these task suggestions can be placed in line with the overall trend of applying the generative AI to generate more non-trivial and customized virtual assistants. Thanks to previous dialogue, the program can guess what kind of tasks or reminders might be helpful for the user and help to optimize daily life even more. This feature thus sets ChatGPT a notch higher from the existing other virtual assistants.

The release of ChatGPT in late 2022 increased the flow of investments to AI companies, forcing dominant giants such as Amazon to incorporate generative AI into their offered services. Amazon has been consistently searching for how to revamp Alexa since the increasing emergence of AI-sourced chatbots which has rendered Alexa profitable for more than a decade. This redesign is in an effort to modernized Alexa and get it in line with today’s Artificial intelligence technologies.

Due to the influx of generative AI, in December, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that the new Alexa will bring GenAI capabilities and will be ready “in the coming months”. The new Alexa will be independent from the regular task-oriented model, it will take actions for users without asking them. This will enable it to challenge the continuously growing list of integrated language AI assistants such as the ChatGPT.

With the continuous growth of OpenAI and Amazon beginning to step up its game in the development of virtual assistants, then the rivalry is expected to grow. As each company strives to develop more intelligent and autonomous cars, users will continue to witness further advancements of how an AI assistant can help to predict and schedule the daily workflow. Such a change is likely to reshape the virtual assistant market in the years to come.

Apple Enhances Siri with 'Apple Intelligence' Powered by ChatGPT

Apple has added its new ‘Apple Intelligence’ into Siri this being a major improvement to the virtual assistant technology. It is a natural extension of the partnership introduced with OpenAI, which takes advantage of the knowledge of ChatGPT to improve Siri. This integration is designed to enhance Siri’s proactivity and smoothness by applying the generative AI that ChatGPT is based on, to produce better and more individual reactions.

In connection with this, Apple has introduced the procedure for obtaining user consent prior to connection to the OpenAI service. This makes sure that the users are able to dictate how they want their information to be managed any time Siri integrates the service of ChatGPT. The integration is Apple’s way of addressing privacy concerns, and while users have the option of invitating AI interactions for some features, it’s made very clear to them.

At the same time, OpenAI continues to make new improvements, to which the firm stated that it will release the first beta version update of its Nov, Dec, and Jan new functions to Plus, Team, and Pro users worldwide. This roll-out will begin on web version, where users can see new enhancements to ChatGPT functionality. These updates are aimed at refining the general experience of using the model and at increasing the range of tasks that can be solved with the help of ChatGPT.

Apple’s partnership with OpenAI largely financed by Microsoft proves one more evidence of the growing usage of generative AI mega trends by tech titans. When incorporating the experience of ChatGPT, Apple wants to make its product more competitive and advance its position in the market of AI personal assistants.

This collaboration also clearly defines the increasing impact of OpenAI since the company’s technologies have been integrated into numerous important products. The current updates and advancements being made in Apple and Microsoft and other companies’ AI products show that they can expect more advanced and smooth integration, which might revolutionize virtual assistants’ abilities to perform tasks in users’ daily lives.