- Google Gemini’s app has a new scheduled action feature to assign recurring tasks.
- Gemini automatically finishes the tasks at the selected times, similar to Chatgpt’s tasks.
- The upgrade is only available to pay Gemini Pro, Ultra and Eligible Workspace.
Google Gemini gets a little more organized with a new feature for his mobile app called scheduled actions. As the name suggests, scheduled actions users give users to assign recurring tasks to the chatbot that it automatically completes without real -time surveillance.
Google first showed the feature of this year’s I/O, beaten as a way of giving Gemini some initiative. The idea is that Gemini becomes more proactive in helping users instead of needing people to ask questions or make requests first. Depending on the request, Gemini can regularly tell you about news updates, summary of your latest E emails, or just remind you to walk around the times you choose. As long as you are specific about the timing, Gemini will commit and follow your requests.
You can just ask Gemini to perform a recurring task, basically just reformulate a standard prompt. Ask Gemini about new book recommendations every Friday night and that’s what you get every week. However, there is a limit. You can only create ten scheduled actions at once. Once planned, all your upcoming tasks can be seen in the scheduled actions tab under Settings. You can edit, pause or cancel them from there.
Or at least you can if you pay. The feature is available on Gemini’s paid plans, so you have to subscribe to AI Pro for $ 20 per Month or AI Ultra for $ 250 per Month. Some Google Workspace business and education plans also have access. This means that free-tier users cannot use scheduled actions right now, but there are a lot of precedent for these kinds of features that herd down to general release at a fairly fast pace. There is no official timeline to do it right now, but if you are already paying, you might be able to ask Gemini to tell you when it will.
Gemini planning chatgpt match
Google has always portrayed Gemini’s future as more than another chatbot, promising it would be an agent who expects and ends requests. Of course, it also seems to be about matching chatgpt and its own tasks, but there are some ways that Gemini stands out. Chatgpt tasks lean strongly on working within Chatgpt and its related apps, but it’s not almost as universally used as Google Ecosystem. Gemini and its planned tasks are based on integrations with Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and everywhere else that many people have already created a digital home.
The broader meaning of both Chatgpt and Gemini, which is pursuing this kind of function, has been switched to proactive AI. That your AI may start to help you before you know that you need help is something the companies behind AI models are very excited about, even if it is not the dream for everyone to have an AI system that is so intimately familiar with their lives. If you are concerned about privacy, it is not the sale that Google might believe in giving an AI keys to your inbox and calendar and telling it to become creative.
Still, reliable, predictable completion of the task without constant supervision appealing. That said, planned actions are only as good as the infrastructure behind them. If Google servers slide, an unanswered prompt is possible and can be disastrous if you have given the important tasks. At I/O, Google showed an upcoming “Agent Mode” designed to handle multiple step tasks such as booking travel or coordinating apartment trips. Planned actions set the basis for that plan, but Google has to make sure there are no cracks in this foundation.
