10/23/2024

Anthropic Wants Claude to Control Your Computer

Its AI agent is the first to be able to take control of a computer to do useful work

It took some time for people to adjust to the idea of chatbots that seem to have minds of their own. The next leap into the unknown may involve trusting artificial intelligence to take over our computers, too.

Anthropic, a high-flying competitor to OpenAI, announced today that it has taught its AI model Claude to do a range of things on a computer, including search the web, open applications, and input text using the mouse and keyboard.

“I think we're going to enter into a new era where a model can use all of the tools that you use as a person to get tasks done,” said Jared Kaplan, chief science officer at Anthropic and an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Please select this link to read the complete article from WIRED.