www.theinformation.com
The software in the works is one of two types of agents OpenAI is developing as it jumps into one of the hottest areas of artificial intelligence, which could soon include Google and Meta Platforms. Some longtime AI researchers have been leaving companies such as Google to start companies that develop agents.
OpenAI will have to temper fears about agents that access users’ computers, given that such a takeover may remind some people of malware, which is known to illicitly seize control of computers and steal their data.
OpenAI, a leader in generative AI that investors recently valued at $86 billion, is developing another class of AI agent that would handle web-based tasks such as gathering public data about a set of companies, creating itineraries under a certain budget or booking flight tickets, said a person with knowledge of that effort. Google and Meta have said they are developing similar types of agents, powered by conversational AI known as large language models.
OpenAI will have to temper fears about agents that access users’ computers, given that such a takeover may remind some people of malware, which is known to illicitly seize control of computers and steal their data.
OpenAI, a leader in generative AI that investors recently valued at $86 billion, is developing another class of AI agent that would handle web-based tasks such as gathering public data about a set of companies, creating itineraries under a certain budget or booking flight tickets, said a person with knowledge of that effort. Google and Meta have said they are developing similar types of agents, powered by conversational AI known as large language models.