Openai launches Operator, an artificial intelligence capable of performing many automated tasks

Thursday, January 23, Openai announced Operatora versatile AI agent capable of taking control of a web browser and carrying out certain actions independently. For the time being, Operator will only be available for subscribed American users to the pro plan of chatgpt (at 200 dollars per month), but Openai plans to deploy the function of users of more, team and business users. When to other countries? “” Operator will be available in other countries soon “Said Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, during a livestream on Thursday, before concluding:” Europe, unfortunately, will take a little more time ».

Let the machine take care of everything

But then, what can Operator do? According to Openai, Operator promises to automate tasks such as reservation of hotels or airbnb, restaurant reservations or online purchases. The operator's interface offers several categories of tasks, including shopping, delivery, catering and travel, each allowing different types of automation. Thus, when an Active Operator Chatgpt user, a small window opens, displaying a dedicated browser used by the agent to accomplish tasks. In parallel, artificial intelligence explains what it does in real time, and allows the user to stop his automated approach at any time.

To operate, Operator is based on a model called Computer-USing Agent (CUA), which combines visual capacities of the OPENAI GPT-4O model With the reasoning capacities of the most advanced models of the company: the CUA is thus designed to interact with the user interface of websites. He can click on specific buttons, fill out forms, or even navigate the menus without problem. He can therefore do everything a human would take care of doing naturally. It remains to ensure that this method respects the conditions of use of the services employed. With this in mind, Openai claims to collaborate with a whole bunch of companies like Doordash, Ebay, Instacart, Priceline, Stubhub and Uber in order to guarantee compliance with their conditions of use.