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As expected,OpenAIhas released its first autonomous AI agent, calledOperatorthis week.
So, it can perform tasks like booking a restaurant table or buying groceries.
The Ask Jeeves search engine.
Say, theres no table available at 7.00pm, would Sir or Madam mind a 7.45pm table instead?
Of course, Operator doesnt call you Sir or Madam, but it might as well.
Do you remember Ask Jeeves?
The Ask Jeeves search engine.
The character was named after Jeeves, Bertie Wooster’s valet in the fictional works of P. G. Wodehouse.
This is the ultimate goal for OpenAI, and why it was founded.
AGI has the potential to change our world radically.
OpenAI’s Operator in action.
Weve just got to hope that it doesnt decide to wipe us out.
And this is where we return to the theme of unintended consequences.
Many experts see AI agents as a threat.
Bengio would rather we continue towards building AGI without using agents, which allows them to do things autonomously.
“And we can continue building more powerful systems that are non-agentic.”
