The next wave of game-changing AI models will soon be upon us –

Dawn of the Agent: New Claude AI can take over your computer

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2024-10-23 07:30:05

The next wave of game-changing AI models will soon be upon us – "agent" style models that'll be able to take over entire ongoing tasks and jobs with full autonomy. Anthropic's newest AI model gives us a sneak peek, by taking over your whole computer.

If you haven't encountered the idea of an AI agent before – or if you see Large Language Models (LLMs) like Claude and GPT as primarily chat services, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman might help put things in perspective. In the short video below, Altman lays out the five levels of AI as his company sees things.

First, there's the chatbots – and many of us have been getting acquainted with the remarkable capabilities these offer over the last few years. Next come the "reasoners" – Altman says OpenAI's recent o1 model is the first of these. The third level is "agents" – these will effectively be AIs that people trust to go off and just take care of things on their behalf, making their own decisions about how to get a task completed.

Agent AIs will have your credit card and permission to use it. They'll have access to the Web, and the ability to interact with websites and tools on your behalf. You'll be able to give them a job, and trust that they'll do it, checking back in with you only as required.