OpenAI's Operator promises to abolish browser-based drudgery, here's everything you need to know about the AI agent and when you'll be able to try it for yourself.

OpenAI gave me one week to test its new AI agent, Operator, a system that can independently do tasks for you on the internet. Operator is the closest thing I’ve seen to the tech industry’s vision of AI agents — systems that can automate the boring parts of life,

The announcement confirms one of two rumors that circled the internet this week. The other was about superintelligence.

The agent will be available first in the US to subscribers of ChatGPT Pro.

OpenAI announced that it is launching a research preview of Operator, an AI agent that can take control of a browser and perform tasks.

With OpenAI’s release of Operator, Scott Friend, an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, believes we’ll now see an acceleration in what will ultimately be viewed as the third wave of major digital commerce innovation.

We’ve just got to hope that it doesn’t decide to wipe us out. Not to worry you, but Geoffory Hinton, often referred to as the ‘Godfather of AI,’ recently upped his odds of technology wiping out humanity to 20%.

Users have had the chance to gather early impressions following the January 23 release of OpenAI's Operator. So far, they're a little underwhelming.

The service, called Deep Research, will be available to certain paying customers through OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot online OpenAI is releasing a new artificial intelligence tool that is designed to carry out time-consuming online research for users about everything from complex science questions to car recommendations - expanding the start-up's portfolio of AI agents that act on a person's behalf.