Operator “uses his own browser”, he can “watch a web page, scroll it, click on the buttons” and “fill the text fields as people do on a daily basis,” the Californian company said in a press release . The new function is currently only available for professional chatgpt subscribers, in order to improve it thanks to returns. “Operator is one of our first agents, that is to say AI capable of performing tasks for you independently: you entrust a task and performs it,” summarizes Openai. The explosion of the generative AI with the success of Chatgpt since the end of 2022 launched a frantic race for AI assistants between the technology giants, which quickly deploy tools capable of writing messages, answering questions, generating Images, etc. The Silicon Valley Grail is the AI agents, when the machine becomes a kind of omniscient secretary, available at any time and capable of performing many tasks, messages to send to the Internet races. In this field, Openai is not the fastest, at least in terms of deployment. Operator looks like “Computer Use”, a functionality launched in October by Anthropic, a rival start-up. The Openai press release includes a video showing the operation of Operator. An engineer asks him to find a recipe and add the necessary ingredients in his basket on an online order service: the IA agent goes to the kitchen site, ask additional questions to the user and asks him to Connect when necessary.
Computer USE allows Claude, the interface of generative anthropic, to use computers as a human, from the selection of buttons to text entry and to the handling of different software. Google, which presented in December Gemini 2.0, its new family of generative AI models, also advances on more complex interactions with technology, so that IA agents sail on the Internet independently, seek additional information online or in a document, etc. All companies specify that AI assistants act under humans supervision: if they can select products to buy on an e-commerce site, they cannot (yet) click on the payment button.
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