Discussion

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  OpenAI's Operator enters the AI Agent race, handling tasks like buying tickets or booking restaurants via its $200 Pro plan.  It partners with sites like Stubhub and Instacart, though some, like Reddit, block it.  —  This could spark an even worse spam arms race as bots become ea…

• @burtherman.com Burt Herman on bluesky

  I'm not sure what the value is of OpenAI's Operator, having to babysit it slowly navigating the web through a human interface.  Wouldn't a more functional AI agent avoid the user interface altogether and just have my robots talk to your robots?

• @harrymccracken@mastodon.social Harry McCracken on mastodon

  Agents seem like something that will eventually be useful, but are in kinda-proof-of-sorta-concept at this point? https://every.to/...

• @altryne Alex Volkov on x

  Notes from playing with Operator, the new Agent browsing thing from OpenAI for 40 minutes: - Very very smooth product, you can interrupt, see and organize multiple agent runs - Supposedly the cookies are stored between sessions but this didn't work for me, I had to re-login to X …

• @kevinbankston Kevin Bankston on x

  Think this is going to be a big question agent policy and design—what is a “critical action” warranting a human approval and what isn't?

• @omarsar0 Elvis on x

  For critical actions, Operator asks the user for confirmation. [image]

• @omarsar0 Elvis on x

  You can use it for shopping. Provide a shopping list as an image. [image]

• @simonw Simon Willison on x

  Here are my notes on OpenAI's new ChatGPT Operator browser “agent”, including initial thoughts on their approach to mitigating prompt injection risks https://simonwillison.net/...

• @altryne Alex Volkov on x

  🚨 Testing out OpenAI Operator - new level 3 agent that browses the web! https://x.com/...

• @gneubig Graham Neubig on x

  @invariant_labs Overall impressions: at the moment Operator seems to solely function the web, significantly less expansive than some had imagined — a MacOS integration. Nice polished user interface, although not far from what we have in OpenHands or other closed alternatives like…

• @taumuyi Tau-Mu Yi on bluesky

  I am still waiting for Google to come out with a similar browser control API now that both OpenAI and Anthropic have one.  [embedded post]

• @katienotopoulos Katie Notopoulos on threads

  Hello, this is Operator, a new AI agent by OpenAI.  I'm posting on behalf of the user.  This is my first post from this Threads account!  I logged into the user's Threads account on the web to make this post

• @0xjessel @0xjessel on threads

  so excited for today's launch of operator from @openai it validates the future is teaching machines to operate within the human domain, rather than instructing machines via duplicative APIs to perform human-like actions

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on threads

  Watching OpenAI's demo of an LLM using the web.  Yes, this is technically very impressive.  But just as for the Claude etc versions... what would anyone do with it now?

• @gdb Greg Brockman on x

  Operator — research preview of an agent that can use its own browser to perform tasks for you. 2025 is the year of agents. [image]

• @benhylak Ben on x

  ChatGPT can now use Claude 🤣 [image]

• @maxwinebach Max Weinbach on x

  This is cool, and the flight I'm taking! I changed it myself, but it's cool to see operator work [video]

• @kylebrussell Kyle Russell on x

  Browsers now come with Full Self-Driving (Supervised)

• @swyx @swyx on x

  Initial thoughts on Operator: - SOTA OSWorld/WebArena means actual meaningful model advance, not just ui/product wrapper. OAI always excels at this (model+product progress), as we discuss in our @karinanguyen_ episode today - interesting that Anthropic Computer Use is a free

• @karpathy Andrej Karpathy on x

  Projects like OpenAI's Operator are to the digital world as Humanoid robots are to the physical world.  One general setting (monitor keyboard and mouse, or human body) that can in principle gradually perform arbitrarily general tasks, via an I/O interface originally designed for …

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  AI Agent interaction is going to be one of the most interesting software interoperability paradigms of the future.  Inevitably, no one software system contains all the knowledge or information to perform all the tasks that an enterprise or users needs.  This means we'll need AI A…

• @delrey Jason Del Rey on x

  OpenAI's new “Operator” AI agent launches with several of the partners that we've reported Amazon wants the new AI-powered version of Alexa to integrate with ...whenever it launches ( https://fortune.com/...) Among them: OpenTable, Instacart, and Uber https://openai.com/...

• @gneubig Graham Neubig on x

  OpenAI Operator mainly benchmarked on OSWorld and and WebArena. I did some (agent-assisted) research and summarized the top open and closed solutions on these two benchmarks. Details here: https://github.com/... [image]

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  AI Agents having full browser access is going to open up 100x more use cases for AI. The web doesn't have APIs for the very long tail of tasks that we do every day on computers, and browser use is a major missing link. Another building block for accelerating AI is now here.

• @gregpr07 Gregor Zunic on x

  OpenAI operator is cool. Wouldn't it be nice if it was open source?👀 We built Browser Use - 100% OSS version you can use today for free Link below ↓ [image]

• @binarybits Timothy B. Lee on x

  Ugh, I'm gonna have to start giving OpenAI $200 per month aren't I?

• @dorialexander Alexander Doria on x

  I'm just realizing: this was supposed to be the superintelligent agent thing? [image]

• @fanahova Alessio Fanelli on x

  Notes: - Won't be available in Europe for a while - Ran by CUA (Computer Use Agent) trained starting from 4o - Will be available by API as well - Operator has direct integrations with Opentable and other websites to make sure “it works well”, but still not using API, just [image]

• @0xkarmatic Karma on x

  MCP from Anthropic + Operator from OpenAI would go well together.

• @minimaxir Max Woolf on x

  Overall, Operator seems the exact same as Claude's Computer Use demo from a few months ago. Notably, Claude's Computer Use implementation made few waves in the AI Agent industry since that announcement despite the hype.

• @gneubig Graham Neubig on x

  A summary of operator safety risks and mitigations. 1. Refusing harmful tasks 2. Blocking particular web sites 3. Asking for confirmation in the case of possibly risky actions [image]

• @woj_zaremba Wojciech Zaremba on x

  Today, we're releasing a computer-using agent as a research preview. Ensuring safety for agentic models is far more complex than for chatbots. Errors can lead to serious consequences—for instance, the agent might make costly real-world decisions, like accidentally spending

• @gneubig Graham Neubig on x

  A combo of training the model to be well-aligned, and also post-hoc detection that attempts to monitor anything unsafe. This sort of confirmation+post-hoc monitoring is really important! OpenHands has a “confirmation mode” co-developed with @invariant_labs for this reason. [image…

• @scobleizer Robert Scoble on x

  Watching the live stream that @sama is doing right now. Very impressed. You?

• @aibreakfast @aibreakfast on x

  With OpenAI's Operator (releasing today) you can take a picture of your grocery list and the Operator Agent will automatically order it from Instacart for you. Your AI may be the primary user of the web now. Screenshot from live demo [image]

• @altryne Alex Volkov on x

  “This is the beginning of Level3 on our tiers!” - @sama

• @gneubig Graham Neubig on x

  Currently doing a demo of web navigation booking a table on OpenTable and shopping for groceries. Pretty standard web agent stuff implemented in many agent frameworks and evaluated using WebArena, AssistantBench: * https://webarena.dev/ * https://assistantbench.github.io/

• @altryne Alex Volkov on x

  Finally getting some evals and benchmarks for @OpenAI Operator agent! CUA (computer use agent) from OpenAI - getting 58% on WebArena and 38.1% on OSWorld! [image]

• @altryne Alex Volkov on x

  Operator is backed by a new model that was trained to use keyboard and mouse - computer use agent (CUA) “Everytime CUA does an action, it takes another screenshot and keeps going” [image]

• @sierracatalina1 Sierra Catalina on x

  openAI's first agent, ‘operator,’ can do your grocery shopping for you from a hand written list. [image]

• @sierracatalina1 Sierra Catalina on x

  open AI's first agent, ‘operator,’ is integrated with my favorite application in the world. yes. it's doordash. [image]

• @gneubig Graham Neubig on x

  What would it take to create an open-source Operator? In anticipation of the OpenAI Operator release, I have started gathering together some resources related to Operator and other solutions to task automation: https://github.com/... Let's gather resources and discuss 😃 [image]

• @danshipper Dan Shipper on x

  OpenAI just launched Operator: a new agent designed to get work done for you.  We've been using it for the past couple of days @every and here's what we found: - it can autonomously do tasks like shopping for groceries or concert tickets - it has access to its own browser—that yo…

• @0xkarmatic Karma on x

  The new Operator release from @OpenAI makes this possible now.

• @altryne Alex Volkov on x

  OpenAI is launching Operator - their first agent that operates a web browser - in the cloud! Live today for OAI Pro users! [image]

• @emollick Ethan Mollick on x

  Been playing with the new Operator for a little bit before launch and it is both very much still an experiment and also a good indicator of where things are going. It goes on the web and does things for you. Still many rough edges but here is an example of using it for shopping. …

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  doing an openai livestream right now, first agent launch! https://m.youtube.com/...

• @rowancheung Rowan Cheung on x

  2. Planning a weekend trip based on hidden gems off Reddit, my budget and interests Notice how at 0:06, ChatGPT Operator was blocked from Reddit but then decided to just do a Bing search with “Reddit” at the end Very impressive decision-making [video]

• @rowancheung Rowan Cheung on x

  3. Crypto investment research based on tokens that are actually worth looking into Notice how ChatGPT Operator got hit with a “Are you human” CAPTCHA, then pinged me to take control to confirm Wild workaround [video]

• @rowancheung Rowan Cheung on x

  4. Booking a one-way flight from Zurich to Vienna using the Booking integration This one required a bit of back and forth, with ChatGPT Operator pinging me and asking for my flight preference and having me take control of entering payment details [video]

• @rowancheung Rowan Cheung on x

  5. Scheduling an appointment with my barber after looking at my Google Calendar schedule/availability Note that in this demo, ChatGPT Operator pinged me that I needed to sign in to Google to check my calendar I tried a second time, and my login was saved session-to-session [video…

• @rowancheung Rowan Cheung on x

  I got early access to ChatGPT Operator. It's OpenAI's new AI agent that autonomously takes action across the web on your behalf. The 9 most impressive use cases I've tried (videos sped up): 1. Ordering dinner ingredients based on a picture and a recipe [video]

• r/OpenAI r on reddit

  Introducing Operator

• r/LocalLLaMA r on reddit

  OpenAI introduces Operator: Computer-Using Agent