OpenAI introduces Pulse, an AI agent that works when you sleep

OpenAI's new feature is an autonomous agent working on your behalf while you sleep.
Pulse will proactively research for you and reach out in the morning with the results. (Picture: OpenAI)
Calling it a «first step toward a new paradigm for interacting with AI,» Pulse will scan your topics of interest when you are offline and present you with a morning digest.

It works on the basis of your previous chats, feedback and even connected apps, if you let it.

Users can also instruct it directly about what they are interested in and want in the next update.

Taking care of business
This means that ChatGPT will proactively work for the user, instead of merely responding to prompts, and «will help you make more progress, so you can get back to your life.»

The feature is only available to Pro users on mobile, and OpenAI says they will «learn and improve from early use before rolling it out to Plus.»

A personal assistant that is always on
Looking ahead, OpenAI says this is the first step towards making ChatGPT a more autonomous agent that «works on your behalf.»

The goal is to make a personal assistant that works in the background and checks in several times a day, that can research, plan and «take helpful actions for you,» based on your direction, of course.

— The real breakthrough will come when AI assistants understand your goals and help you reach them without waiting for you to prompt them, says OpenAI’s CEO of applications Fidji Simo, according to The Verge.

Read more: OpenAI launch page, long writeups on The Verge and TechCrunch