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Opera browser is entering the agentic era of AI tools. It's new Browser Operator feature can turn sentences into actionable commands for web surfing, instead of having users click through different pages and buttons.

#opera #browser #aiagent #operator
digitaltrends.com/computing/op

Digital Trends · Opera’s Operator will save you the clicks and browse the web for youBy Nadeem Sarwar

"The whole point of hiring a researcher is that you can rely on their research, that they're doing work for you that would otherwise take you hours. Deep Research is the AI slop of academia — low-quality research-slop built for people that don't really care about quality or substance, and it’s not immediately obvious who it’s for.

Surely, if you’re engaged enough to spend $200 on an OpenAI subscription and are aware of Deep Research, you probably know what SEO bait is, and can distinguish between low-quality and high-quality content. If you were presented with a document with such low-quality, repetitive citations, you’d shred it — and, if created by an intern, you’d shred them too. Or, at the very least, give them some stern words of guidance.

Let me put this in very blunt terms: we are more than two years into the generative AI boom and OpenAI's biggest, sexiest products are Deep Research — a product that dares to ask "what if you were able to spend a lot of compute to get a poorly-cited research paper," and Operator, a compute-intensive application that rarely completes a task in minutes that would otherwise have taken you seconds."

wheresyoured.at/longcon/

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At · The Generative AI ConIt's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st century — a cynical bubble inflated by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman built to sell

#OpenAI may indeed be gearing up to release a powerful new AI tool called #Operator 🤖, which has generated considerable buzz in the tech world 🌐.
OpenAI is set to launch Operator, an AI tool that can autonomously tackle tasks like writing code 💻 and booking travel✈️. With leaked code hinting at a January release, this ""agentic"" AI promises to revolutionize productivity by taking control of your PC 🖥️ and handling tasks for you.
Stay tuned for more updates! 🔍✨

📗 TECH | AI
🔴 OpenAI launches “Operator”: An AI Agent That Operates Your Computer

🪧 "Operator," an AI agent using Computer-Using Agent (CUA) tech to interact with your computer through screenshots, clicks, and typing.

🪧 Best at repetitive tasks like shopping lists but struggles with complex workflows; achieves 87% success on live benchmarks like Amazon, but only 38% on OS-level tasks.🧵

#AI#OpenAI#Operator

#OpenAI launches #Operator, an #AIagent that can operate your computer

Operator watches on-screen content while you use your computer and executes tasks through simulated keyboard and mouse inputs.

> I don’t trust it enough to give it hands-off control. Especially since they #hallucinate.
#ai #security

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/ope

Ars Technica · OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that can operate your computerBy Benj Edwards