LifeVal

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OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. For the more than one billion people who currently use ChatGPT every week, we want to build AI that can help with the practical challenges of everyday life, like finding childcare, accessing government services, creating a budget, preparing for school, modifying recipes, ordering groceries, designing workout plans, and more.

When someone is looking for help making their life easier, they need more than advice or a chat response. To be a truly helpful personal assistant, ChatGPT should be able to take actions that actually get things done.

To measure model performance over time on everyday tasks, we built an evaluation of tasks covering areas where users wanted the most help from AI and personal agents. We used this evaluation to track and drive improvement in model performance on everyday tasks over the past year.

To identify the tasks people value most, we started with two large studies that track how people spend time in both the U.S. and internationally: the American Time Use Survey⁠ and the Multinational Time Use Study⁠. Together, these datasets provide a detailed catalog of everyday life tasks that people do across different demographics, times of day, and seasons.