- The beginnings at GPT-5 of Openai included the revelation of a new integration which allows users of Chatgpt Pro to connect their Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Contacts directly to the Chatbot
- Chatgpt can summarize your day, create a calendar and report important emails
- Although an opt-in functionality requiring user confirmation, confidentiality problems are likely to be raised
The GPT-5 show may have overshadowed some of the other OpenAI news during its livestream on Thursday, but the demonstration of the new Chatgpt capacity to go directly and to analyze the data of a user of a user attracted my attention as a major moment in the development of Chatgpt and the Battle of Openai for supremacy among the IA chatbots.
The new feature allows chatgpt users to connect the AI chatbot to their Gmail, Google Contacts and Google Calendar data. The demo showed chatgpt responding to a request to see a schedule the next day, including the calendar and the user’s e-mail reception box, then quickly compiling a complete and complex calendar, including important non-read emails to answer.
This may not look like a breakthrough for anyone who is already overwhelmed by his digital list of things to do, but Chatgpt sorters this information and put it before you can really reduce your stress, at least judging by demo.
It is easy to imagine an AI outline for your day, or a boost to manage this message still on the fact, reducing the mental workload by reducing tedious sorting and linking programmed events to relevant emails. Could you say, “What’s on my plate today?” And see your calendar associated with this reported email. This would no longer mean changing between Gmail and your calendar, eyes towards what is urgent.
In addition, the data could help Chatgpt learn more about you and your needs by reading the meeting invitations you have sent, the deadlines you barely reached and the RSVP that you sent the second where you obtained the invitation. For the moment, this option is only available for chatgpt pro users, although Optaai has promised that it would soon become more available.
Chatgpt does not take a look at your messages
That said, the idea of handing over Gmail and Chatgpt calendar data could raise an eyebrow or two for a good reason. Gmail could maintain confirmation of appointments with the doctor and secret romantic appointments.
Do not worry about inadvertently sharing these details with Chatgpt, however. You will need to oppose your accounts to Chatgpt and confirm actions before they occur, which will prevent emails from being sent automatically.
Again, there are a lot of intelligent planning robots and additional email modules that automatically carry out the details of the event or remind you of the missed invitations. But the integration of chatgpt adds a real conversation to the mixture. You do not send an email or do not create complex rules on how the automated system must respond to certain family members. You just type a regular language, and it will act more like a human secretary.
Assuming that you agree with the concept, you can see how those who use Google and Chatgpt could appreciate the link of the two. Especially if you are not a fan of Google Gemini for one reason or another. You could aspire to an Ai cat-chat connected to your Google account, but simply prefer chatgpt to Gemini. Openai wants to give you this option.
If Google has no exclusive demand to link your email and your calendar to an AI chatbot, then OpenAi can hope to win in other areas where it may think that it has the advantage, such as the power of GPT-5. You just have to let the Chatppt see which weddings will assist you in the coming months.
