The incredible AI assistant launched by OpenAI

OpenAI’s assistant is now able to perform online tasks for you, such as planning a vacation, reserving a restaurant, or running errands.
Operator is an AI agent launched by the creator of ChatGPT.
He “uses his own browser”, he can “look at a web page, scroll through it, click on the buttons” and “fill in the text fields like people do on a daily basis”, specifies the Californian company in a press release.
The new function is currently only available to professional ChatGPT subscribers, in order to improve it thanks to feedback.
“Operator is one of our first agents, that is to say AIs capable of performing tasks for you autonomously: you give it a task and it executes it,” summarizes OpenAI.
The explosion of generative AI with the success of ChatGPT since the end of 2022 has launched a frantic race for AI assistants between the technology giants.
They are rapidly deploying tools that can write messages, answer questions, generate images, and more.
Operator is similar to “Computer Use,” a feature launched in October by Anthropic, a rival startup.
Computer Use allows Claude, Anthropic’s generative AI interface, to use computers like a human, from selecting buttons to entering text and handling different software.
Google, which presented Gemini 2.0, its new family of generative AI models, in December, is also moving forward on more complex interactions with technology.
These tech giants currently explain that AI assistants act under the supervision of humans.
Indeed, although they can select products to purchase on an e-commerce site, they cannot currently click on the payment button.