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OPENAI’s OPERATOR
It was on 30th of Nov. 2022 the AI genie was out in this world, in the form of ChatGPT, a product of OpenAI, which started getting users by the millions. Very fast it became a rage, thought to be a fad till then, AI made its entry into our day to day existence in a big way. Through ChatGPT, GPT and through GPT, LLM and through LLM, AI was moving forward to become the apex technology of human existence. Though we thought to the contrary, preceding ChatGPT, there were few AI products, in a long duration of time. It all started with Deep Blue, went to Watson, Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, and to top it all was AlphaGo. Then it was over to OpenAI and the GPT revolution.
What has happened after the watershed moment of ChatGPT, has been a deluge of AI products, may it be Gemini, Copilot and many more. Products have started falling out of the AI closet at an astonishing pace. DeepSeek based on reasoning models are making its presence felt in a largely US dominated race. From generative AI to Agentic AI has been a great transformation in the last two years. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has literally declared open the Agentic AI revolution and 2025 being dedicated to this omnipotent transformational change to our existence. OpenAI is making news once again for introducing Operator, another AI gamechanger.
What is Operator powered by? It is a new model called Computer-Using Agent (CUA). “It combines the GPT-4o’s vision capabilities with advanced reasoning through reinforcement learning.” CUA is trained to use graphical user interfaces, GUIs. OpenAI in its introductory article introduces Operator as an agent that can use its browser to perform tasks for you. This heralds the serious beginning of the Agentic AI Age, by none other than OpenAI itself. Agents are AIs capable of doing work for you independently. Simply put, you give it a task and it will execute it. Starting small, Operator has been rolled out already to the Pro users in the US at operator.chatgpt.com.
Operator interacts with the web as a normal user, but with a totally different pace and precision. It can use its reasoning capabilities to self correct. When it needs assistance it hands over the control to the human. Workflows can be personalised or customised. The Agent has been trained to proactively ask the user to take control of the tasks requiring login, payment details or when solving CAPTCHAs. What does it really bring to the table that can be termed a milestone, in the exponential journey of AI. “Operator transforms AI from a passive tool to an active participant in the digital ecosystem.” A great achievement indeed!
EVERY MILESTONE IN THE AI JOURNEY BRINGS IT A STEP CLOSER TO ACHIEVING ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE (AGI).
Sanjay Sahay