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OpenAI’s Operator agent helped me move, but I had to help it, too


OpenAI gave me one week to test its new AI agent, Operator, a system that can independently do tasks for you on the internet. Operator is the closest

The AI was occasionally successful at independently taking actions, and it works much faster than web-based agents I’ve seen from Anthropic and Google. Instacart, Uber, and eBay collaborated with OpenAI for the launch of Operator, allowing the agent to navigate their websites on behalf of humans. “We really are bullish about our belief, similar to OpenAI, that agentic systems will have a major impact on how consumers interact with digital properties,” said eBay’s chief AI officer, Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov, in an interview with TechCrunch.

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