OpenAI's Operator can surf the web for you

OpenAI has begun previewing a new tool called Operator that can navigate within a web browser. According to a blog post published Thursday, the software is powered by what the company calls a Computer-Using Agent. "CUA is trained to interact with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) -- the buttons, menus, and text fields people see on a screen -- just as humans do," says OpenAI of the model. "This gives it the flexibility to perform digital tasks without using OS- or web-specific APIs." The current release of Operator builds on OpenAI's GPT-4o model.