{"id":570079,"date":"2024-11-14T09:40:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T07:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=570079"},"modified":"2024-11-14T09:49:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T07:49:12","slug":"chatgpt-creator-preparing-to-launch-ai-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/ai\/570079-chatgpt-creator-preparing-to-launch-ai-agents.html","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT creator preparing to launch AI agents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OpenAI is preparing to launch a new artificial intelligence agent codenamed \u201cOperator\u201d that can use a computer to take actions on a person\u2019s behalf, such as writing code or booking travel, according to two people familiar with the matter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a staff meeting on Wednesday, OpenAI\u2019s leadership announced plans to release the tool in January as a research preview and through the company\u2019s application programming interface for developers, said one of the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The planned release is part of a broader industry push toward agents, or AI software that can complete multi-step tasks for users with minimal supervision.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthropic unveiled a similar agent that can process what\u2019s happening on the user\u2019s computer in real-time and take actions on their behalf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OpenAI-backer Microsoft also recently launched a set of agent tools designed to send emails and manage records for workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Alphabet\u2019s Google is said to be preparing to release an AI agent, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/google-preps-ai-that-takes-over-computers\">The Information<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OpenAI has been working on several agent-related research projects, according to three people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The one nearest completion will be a general-purpose tool that executes tasks in a web browser, one of the people said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman hinted at the shift to agents in response to a question last month during an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit. \u201cWe will have better and better models,\u201d Altman wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut I think the thing that will feel like the next giant breakthrough will be agents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move to release an agentic AI tool also comes as OpenAI and its competitors have seen diminishing returns from their costly efforts to develop more advanced AI models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI is preparing to launch a new artificial intelligence agent codenamed \u201cOperator\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":536995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92837],"tags":[35793,83065,45266,83585],"class_list":["post-570079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-chatgpt","tag-openai","tag-sam-altman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570108,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570079\/revisions\/570108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}