🥯 Today on Bagel Bots:

• 🤯 OpenAI’s Big Leap into Robotics

• ⚡️ Fresh tech of the day - AI-Driven Materials Discovery with MatterGen and MatterSim

• 📰 The latest AI and tech news

• 🤖 Cool new apps for you to check out

• 🧠 Today’s Free Prompt: How To Use ChatGPT’s New ‘Tasks’ Feature

• 🤔 Can you guess which image is real and which one is AI? Go vote!

(Read time: five minutes) - Fun fact: I never change this.

One Big Story: ChatGPT Can Now Handle Reminders and To-Dos For You

Have you ever wished ChatGPT could handle more than just answering your questions in real-time? Well, OpenAI just made it happen. They’ve introduced a new beta feature called Tasks for ChatGPT, allowing it to act as a digital assistant by scheduling reminders and future actions. Think Google Assistant, but with ChatGPT’s advanced conversational abilities.

🎁 We will give you a full breakdown of how to use this new feature at the bottom of this email!

Here’s the gist:

• What it does: Tasks lets you schedule reminders or actions, either as one-time events or recurring tasks. For example, you can get a daily weather update, set a passport renewal reminder, or even queue up a knock-knock joke for your kids at bedtime.

• How to use it: Look for the “4o with scheduled tasks” option in your ChatGPT model picker. You tell it what you need and when, and it’s scheduled.

• Where to manage tasks: You can edit or cancel tasks in the new Tasks section in the profile menu (web only for now) or directly within chat threads. Once tasks are completed, notifications will hit your web, desktop, and mobile devices.

• Limits: You’re capped at 10 active tasks at a time, so prioritize wisely.

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Cool Tech: AI-Driven Materials Discovery with MatterGen and MatterSim

Imagine an AI that doesn’t just analyze existing materials but dreams up entirely new ones. Microsoft Research’s MatterGen and MatterSim are doing exactly that—changing how materials are designed and validated, with the potential to revolutionize industries like energy, healthcare, and beyond.

What are they?

• MatterGen is the visionary—it uses AI to generate thousands of material candidates based on specific constraints like durability, conductivity, or environmental impact.

• MatterSim is the realist—it rigorously tests the stability and feasibility of those materials through advanced simulations.

Together, they speed up a process that used to take years of trial and error in a lab.

Why it matters: Advances in materials science have always driven human progress, from the Bronze Age to silicon chips. However, traditional methods are slow, expensive, and rely heavily on intuition and luck. Tools like MatterGen and MatterSim make the process faster, more efficient, and scalable, allowing researchers to meet global demands urgently.

Applications:

• Designing new battery materials for sustainable energy storage.

• Creating superconductors that could transform medical imaging and quantum computing.

• Exploring uncharted territories in materials science with confidence and speed.

Interesting News

⚕️  SpotitEarly is developing a non-invasive, at-home breath test that uses trained canines and AI to detect multiple early-stage cancers with high accuracy, as demonstrated in their Rainbow Study.

📱 Apple has temporarily disabled its AI-generated news summary feature in the iOS 18.3 beta after it produced inaccurate and misleading headlines, such as falsely reporting that tennis star Rafael Nadal had come out as gay, leading to complaints from organizations like the BBC.

🪖 Anduril Industries is investing nearly $1 billion to build “Arsenal-1,” a five million-square-foot hyperscale manufacturing facility near Rickenbacker International Airport in Pickaway County, Ohio, aiming to produce tens of thousands of autonomous military systems annually and create over 4,000 jobs, with production slated to begin by July 2026.

🤖 François Chollet, creator of the Keras deep learning framework, and Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier, have launched Ndea, an AI research lab aiming to achieve artificial general intelligence by combining deep learning with program synthesis, enabling AI systems to continually improve without bottlenecks.

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Today’s Tip: How To Use ChatGPT’s New ‘Tasks’ Feature

Managing daily responsibilities can often feel overwhelming, with numerous tasks demanding attention and time. The uncertainty of remembering every detail can make it challenging to stay organized, especially when balancing multiple commitments. That’s why ChatGPT’s Scheduled Tasks feature exists. It’s designed to act as your personal assistant, automating routine activities and providing timely reminders. Whether receiving daily news summaries, practicing a new language, or remembering important dates, this feature ensures your tasks are handled efficiently, allowing you to focus on what truly matters.

This is how to use it ⬇️ 

To effectively utilize ChatGPT’s Scheduled Tasks feature for automating prompts like daily news summaries or language practice sessions, follow these concise steps:

1.	Access Scheduled Tasks:

• Click on your profile icon in ChatGPT.
• Select “Tasks” from the dropdown menu.

2. Create a New Task:

• In the Tasks interface, choose “Try your own” to set up a custom task.
• Alternatively, select “ChatGPT with scheduled tasks” from the model picker and input your desired prompt directly.

3. Define Task Details:

• Name: Assign a descriptive title to your task.
• Instructions: Enter the specific prompt, e.g., “Provide a summary of today’s top technology news headlines every day at 12:00 PM.”
• Schedule: Set the desired time and frequency for the task.

4. Save and Confirm:

• Review the task details.
• Click “Save” to activate the scheduled task.

5. Manage Notifications:

• Adjust push and email notifications in your ChatGPT Web’s notification settings.
• Ensure browser permissions are enabled for desktop notifications.
• On mobile devices, grant notification permissions when prompted to receive alerts across platforms.

6. Edit or Pause Tasks:

• Navigate to the “Tasks” section via your profile icon.
• Hover over the desired task and click the pencil icon to edit, or use the three-dot menu to pause or delete.

Usage Limitations:

• A maximum of 10 active tasks is allowed. To add new tasks, pause or delete existing ones.
• Tasks utilize GPT-4o, adhering to your plan’s usage limits.
• Currently, tasks do not support voice chats, file uploads, or GPTs.

Are you interested in getting a customized version of the prompt above? Do you have a prompt you want created? Email us at [email protected].

🤔 Which image is real?

One of these images is real, and one was created with AI. Vote for which one you think is real, and tell us why you voted that way. My only goal is to choose such good photos that the majority of votes are wrong.

The last edition’s results—66% were wrong!

Did you vote in the poll from January 17th? The top image was real! Go back and see the photos here. So what do you think? Are you getting better at spotting AI vs. not?