Claude AI tool can now carry out jobs like filling forms and booking trips, says creator

An artificial intelligence startup backed by Amazon and Google says it has created an AI agent that can carry out tasks on the computer such as moving a mouse cursor and typing text. US company Anthropic said its AI model, called Claude, could now perform computing tasks including filling out forms, planning an outing and building a website. Autonomous AI agents are viewed by tech firms and investors as a potentially lucrative avenue of development for a technology whose capabilities have stunned users but can cost billions of dollars to build and operate. Anthropic, a competitor to ChatGPT owner OpenAI, is making the Claude 3.5 Sonnet model available to developers but admitted it can be prone to errors. "At this stage, it is still experimental – at times cumbersome and error-prone," the company said.