OpenAI has just introduced Operator, its first AI agent, for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US.
Experts predict that 2025 will be the year AI agents become commonplace. OpenAI is making this prediction a reality with Operator, a system that uses a web browser to book travel or shop for products.
While chatbots like ChatGPT use generative AI to respond to questions, Operator is designed to perform tasks automatically. OpenAI said the new tool is available to ChatGPT Pro users in the US.
In the following months, it will also be available to ChatGPT Plus users and in other countries.
When introducing Operator on livestream, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called it a “preview” and said it would be refined over time. The company is also preparing to release more assistants.
Operator's interface is quite similar to ChatGPT. Users can ask it to make a reservation for dinner at 7 p.m. and perform tasks through a specific website like OpenTable or through a search engine like Google.
The operator will summarize the reasoning process in the sidebar for the user to find out which step is wrong.
Users can also upload a handwritten grocery list and ask the Operator to shop from a specific website like Instacart. If no website is selected, it will default to a search engine.
Reiichiro Nakano, a member of the technical team, shares the CUA-based Operator, a development model built on GPT-4o. The model does not require APIs and opens up a whole new range of software that was previously inaccessible.
It also removes another “bottleneck” on the path to general artificial intelligence. However, Operator still needs time before it can catch up to human capabilities when navigating the web.
TH (according to Vietnamnet)