The Verge reports on OpenAI’s new AI agent feature.
It seems like it will be quite a while before this kind of computing becomes reliable and normalized, but I am definitely excited about it. I think a lot of discourse about AI is filled with misplaced anger and fear, especially in artistic and teaching communities. These AI tools certainly present significant ethical issues, but what they accomplish for humans is not something I struggle with. They are bad at art and, honestly, still pretty bad at understanding. However, what they excel at is automation.
I have spent time getting comfortable with various automation apps, utilities, and languages to speed up some of my mobile and desktop computing workflows. Apps like Shortcuts, Automator, and Keyboard Maestro have been incredibly helpful over the years. However, web apps are painfully difficult to automate, and as major platform owners like Google, Meta, and Amazon continue to lock down their ecosystems, it becomes even harder for third-party apps to meaningfully manipulate these sites on the user’s behalf.
The most hopeful and optimistic take on AI is that, in the next few years, we’ll start to see it take less of a “me-too” role inside our apps and websites and instead evolve into something that can act on our behalf—stringing together cumbersome, multi-step actions and automating tasks we already perform consistently but manually.
Hopefully, Operator AI helps to instigate that trend.
OpenAI’s new Operator AI agent can do things on the web for you – The Verge:
OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” according to a blog post. “Using its own browser, it can look at a webpage and interact with it by typing, clicking, and scrolling,” OpenAI says.
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