Operator research preview

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Post by meetpateltech » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 6:03 PM UTC

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Post by punnerud » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 6:13 PM UTC

OpenAI also focus their marketing on controlling a browser, just like Anthropic. Agents can do so much more. More like filters and picklists on values for the in and out of the agents.

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 6:14 PM UTC

Title is: Introducing Operator

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Post by kristofferR » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 6:18 PM UTC

Seems like it is like Rabbit's "Large Action Model", just working.

At the moment it seems kinda useless - to be truly useful it should support querying across multiple sites simultaneously IMO.

For example, the query "Order Joseph Joseph Platform from amazon.com" is something I could easily do faster myself. All the examples shown in their video are similarly simple and don’t showcase much value.

What would be impressive is if you could ask, "Order Joseph Joseph Platform from the cheapest site," and it could compare the total cost (including product price, shipping, and VAT) across all relevant Amazon domains, eu.josephjoseph.com and other shops that ship to my country. Then we’d really be talking.

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Post by jsheard » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 6:18 PM UTC

> We’re collaborating with companies like DoorDash, Instacart, OpenTable, Priceline, StubHub, Thumbtack, Uber, and others to ensure Operator addresses real-world needs while respecting established norms.

If you're collaborating with the companies the agent is supposed to interact with, why not just have it hook into an API rather than jumping through hoops to interface with their GUI? I don't get it.

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Post by rvz » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 6:19 PM UTC

As usual this is quite underwhelming. All this hype and it appears that this was a rushed last minute demo to show something that is hardly ready.

Ever since GPTs, "Operator" looks quite frankly gimmicky.

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Post by Mond_ » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 6:19 PM UTC

I wonder, did Google or Microsoft (via Github Copilot) release anything like this yet? I'd not be surprised if all of them are currently working on something in this direction.

"Agents", or something like that.

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Post by minimaxir » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 6:20 PM UTC

Overall, Operator seems the same as Claude's Computer Use demo from a few months ago, including architecture requiring user to launch a VM, and a tendency to be incorrect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41914989

Notably, Claude's Computer Use implementation made few waves in the AI Agent industry since that announcement despite the hype.

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Post by MortyWaves » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 6:21 PM UTC

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 6:22 PM UTC

jsheard wrote: post #5

> We’re collaborating with companies like DoorDash, Instacart, OpenTable, Priceline, StubHub, Thumbtack, Uber, and others to ensure Operator addresses real-world needs while respecting established norms. If you're collaborating with the companies the agent is supposed to interact with, why not just have it hook into an API rather than jumping through hoops to interface with their GUI? I don't get it.

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