OpenAI’s Operator: “Google and Anthropic, are testing autonomous agents that they claim that companies will eventually be able to “hire” as full-fledged workers.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/technology/openai-operator-agent.html

The version tested here was unimpressive, though some of the limits (CAPTCHA, Credit Card, etc) are presumably temporary.

A narrower-scope agent to replace the human “swivel-chair interface” seems more achievable. (If the Agents actually work reliably that implies a level of functionality that will replace most of us.)