2025 is expected to be the year of the AI agent.

And Open AI is now making the first move unveiling a new feature that lets you schedule reminders and automate tasks with chat GPT.

I dear Deboise watching that in today's tech check. Morning, Dee.

Hey, good morning, Carl. Yes, but baby steps here. This is as simple as it

sounds. Tasks let's users ask Chat TPT to do things for them at a future time. So they're scheduled

prompts on things like daily weather updates, a reminder to buy eggs, or let's say recurring

motivational quotes before bed. And yes, this kind of capability is already common in other

digital assistants like Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant. But for ChatGBTBT, this is a notable

shift because it moves the platform from being a reactive tool to a proactive one, an agent, that word

again, that can anticipate and plan tasks. Now, here's an example posted by an Open AI engineer.

Her prompt, check Apple stock price scheduled daily at 10 a.m.

Brings up an Apple chart, she can toggle through one day, five-day, et cetera, returns.

Another prompt she shows, asks ChatGBTGBT to remind her to learn a new word every evening,

when she's trying to learn a language.

Now, this puts ChatGBT into more direct competition with existing digital assistance

that have been slow to upgrade.

Now, for the last few years, Amazon has been racing to replace the current Alexa, which is

used mostly to play music and set timers, replace it with a smarter, more capable, generative

AI version.

In an interview with the FT earlier this week, though, the company's head of AGI said

there were still several technical challenges they needed to overcome before a rollout.

Amazon, by the way, has the most to lose here because its smart speakers lead in market

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