what it is, how it works and is used, how to hire it and how much it costs

Let’s tell you what is the OpenAI Operatora new launch from the company responsible for ChatGPT with which they are betting on AI agents. But being a quite different product and with other purposes, it is perhaps a little more complicated to understand and more confusing.

Therefore, we are going to try to explain everything to you in a simple way. We will start by explaining what AI agents are and what Operator is. Then we will tell you how it works, and we will finish by talking to you about how to access it and the price it costs.

What are AI agents

Operator is an Artificial Intelligence agent created by OpenAI. AI agents are automations that perform actions for you on the computersuch as in the browser. The idea is to streamline processes in which you have to perform several different tasks, and allow the agent to do it for you.

It’s going to be something like a virtual secretary. For example, think that you want to go on a trip to a city, and that you have two or three destinations in mind. Currently, what you do is look for hotel options in the cities, look at the weather information, and even see what events that interest you are in these cities to make the decision, and then you book and pay.

The agents’ idea is that do all these processes for you. For example, you just write to the agent on your computer (or tell him with your voice) that you want to leave on certain days and that you are thinking about these two or three destinations. Then, the computer is in charge of checking the weather, seeing interesting events, offering you hotel options and collecting and giving you all the options so that you only have to choose one and confirm the payment.

However, this is the ultimate goal of the operators. Currently, the options that are being launched are much simpler, although they continue with the objective of being able to do as many things for you. In a few years, this could be a reality.

What is Operator?

Operator is an AI agent created by OpenAI. It is currently in the development phase, although there are already some users who can start using it. This is an agent that can navigate the web to perform tasks for us.

Operator will have the ability to use its own browser to browse the web, and interact with a page writing and clicking and scrolling to find information and perform tasks for us.

In this way, what OpenAI wants is for you to be able to tell Operator something like “Reserve me a table for two at Beretta for 7 p.m.”, and for this agent to take care of doing it for you Opening a reservation website, search for the venue, select the date and time, and make the reservation for yourself.

If a problem arises such as there is no free place where you want to go, or if some sensitive information about you is required, then it will ask you to intervene. Come on, the idea is not to do things crazy, but to If he can’t do something, he’ll ask you. so you can decide what to do.

Following the reservation example, this allows you to choose another date or time, or for you to write your payment method so that the operator does not use your card on its own. But it can also ask you for confirmation of actions or helpthe first in payments and when making final decisions, and the second in other obstacles such as a CAPTCHA or having to write username and password.

You will also be able to create custom tasks, configure specific instructions and preferences for automate tasks you do frequently. For example, if every month you make a specific purchase in an online supermarket or do some periodic online action, you can configure this so that Operator does it on its own from time to time.

At the moment Operator has only been announced and released to a small group of people. It is in the investigation phasewhich means that they will use the data and feedback from the first users to start fine-tuning it and improving its operation. This also means that at the moment it is not very reliable, and that it can make mistakes.

How Operator works

Operator uses an own artificial intelligence model. Is called Computer-Using Agent (CUA)and is based on GPT-40. This model is able to “see” what is happening in the browser by taking screenshots, and then allows you to use typical controls such as the cursor or mouse to navigate and take actions on the web page you go to.

This model is capable of analyzing and understanding each pixel of the screenshots taken on a website, and thus knowing identify objects on screentext and images. Once it analyzes the content of the website, it does a kind of internal “reasoning” and follows a line of “thought” to carry out the actions. Of course, it is also adapting taking into account past actions.

To carry out the tasks, Operator uses an internal browserso you don’t have to install anything. This browser works remotely from OpenAI’s servers, and both your data, what you ask of it, and the captures of the websites end up stored on the company’s servers.

This means that, as happens in ChatGPT and almost all AI models that do not work locally on a computer, the company owns the data. OpenAI will then use this data to detect fraudulent activity and to train and improve the model. In any case, you can deactivate this collection from the settings, or decide how long the data is stored.

How much does Operator cost?

Operator will be included in ChatGPT Pro subscriptionwhich is the one that has a price of 200 dollars a month. Therefore, you cannot hire it separately, but you will have to pay this money, and among the advantages it offers you is being able to start using its preliminary version.

In addition to this, at the moment It is only available in the United Statesand Open AI has already warned that it could take a while to reach Europe. Therefore, for practical purposes we cannot use it yet, but it is a product in development that perhaps in a few months or a few years will end up reaching more users.

The official Operator website, which is not active in Spain at the moment, is operator.chatgpt.com. This will be where we can interact with this AI agent when it is active.

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