As an example of how the tech could be used to complete everyday tasks, Altman and a group of OpenAI researchers uploaded an image of a shopping list to Operator, then asked it to

AI agents have the potential to transform industries by automating tasks, personalizing interactions, and improving efficiency.

OpenAI has launched Operator, a largely autonomous AI agent designed to take your simple text prompts and turn them into real-world tasks completed via the internet. In theory, you can ask it to do almost anything that's possible via a web browser. In practice, early users seem to be finding the results rather hit and miss.