Breaking AI News! 🤖 Operator 🤖 from OpenAI is here
Let me show you OpenAI's new browser agent so you don't have to pay $200/month to see what the future holds
🤖 O P E R A T O R 🤖 is here! OpenAI’s agent that controls a browser to fulfill your whims was released to ChatGPT Pro subscribers less than 24h ago. And I made a comprehensive video demo for you... because this latest agentic AI release is a loud-and-clear sign of things to come and if you're a leader or aspiring leader, you can't afford to snooze past this one.
Watch my full unbiased demo with 5 use cases on YouTube here:
While Operator is far from perfect, it's impressive. Easily better than the other browser agent offerings, so if you haven’t seen any of them in action, this is the one to start with and now’s the time! The future of work and the face of business will change when tools like this one get better... and better is the only direction they're heading in. There's enough intel in here to fuel some good guesses about what to expect in the coming months and years... and what it might mean for your job and your company.
Operator is exactly one of those things where SHOW is much more powerful than TELL, so it's important that you see it for yourself. That’s why I have a short summary at the bottom of this page, but I do recommend you just click around in the demo (ideally on a bigger screen in HD so you can watch it clicking around in its browser while it executes my tasks).
Since you need to be US-based with a $200/month ChatGPT subscription to try Operator and there aren't yet good demos out there, I sat up until 4 AM capturing this walkthrough for you. (And since I always squeeze in some bonus nuggets for you, when you spend time with me you always learn a little more than you expect to.)
Use cases
I went through these five use cases:
1) Hotel recommendation
2) Data gathering
3) Flight booking
4) Legal paperwork
5) Infographics
Three more tasks I tried but aren't in here:
6) Party planning for kids with web search (meh)
7) Shopping on Amazon (it failed to add items to cart)
8) Find a freelancer (bad prompt, it was late at night)
The 18min video also has all manner of bonus thoughts, from security (e.g. how the way we log in to other sites might change to keep up with agents) to multitool use (why many tasks are off the table... for now).
Watch the full video on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/quaesita_ytoperator - HD recommended to see where it clicks on screen - and see for yourself! If you find my deep dive useful, pretty please consider giving it a boost on social so my late night heroics help us both. Commenting for reach is always appreciated!
Or better yet, tell your leaders to reach out to me at makecassietalk.com if you'd prefer for me to help them and you with AI literacy and AI readiness instead of someone who has discovered AI a year ago (I've been in the AI and data game for over 20 years and am here to help).
Results
SPOILER ALERT! Operator is slooooooow (it took me 2.5h to record these 18 minutes of screencap, which I've sped up A LOT for you). You’ll probably want to leave it running while you shower and come back later to see if what you get is a good starting place for where you want to go next.
Performance-wise, it is much better for cases where you're okay with satisficing (looking for good enough) as opposed to optimizing (looking for best/flawless result). While it’s not perfect, it’s rather mind-blowing that we now have technology that can do what you’ll see Operator do in the demo. Take a moment to be impressed by what we humans are capable of if we put our minds to it. Talk about the unreasonable efficacy of brute force!
Something you won’t get with Operator is what we all want (speaking for the royal we here), which is an agent that will execute similar tasks in parallel or even in a loop (so forget the spreadsheet-type researchy tasks… for now) or combine multiple tools together in parallel. But that little lack smells more like a compute-stingy design choice than a fundamental limitation. Expect more competence quickly as (business) people realize how useful this could be and show they’re willing to pay for the extra compute.
It’s only going to get wilder from here!
Drop a comment here with your thoughts. Intrigued? Anxious? Inspired? Fascinated? Alarmed? Whatever your take, surely you can't be feeling nothing...