“Agents” are the buzzword of the day in the world of AI.
Anthropic says it is teaching its Claude AI model to control desktop computers based on prompts. In demonstration videos, the model is shown controlling a computer to conduct research for an outing on the town, searching the web for places to visit near the user’s home and even adding an itinerary to their desktop calendar.
The functionality, simply called “computer use,” is only available to developers today, and it’s unclear what pricing looks like or how well the tech actually works. Anthropic says in a tweet about computer use that during testing, Claude got sidetracked from a coding assignment and started searching Google for images of Yellowstone National Park. So, yeah… there are still kinks to work out.
From a technical perspective, Anthropic says that Claude is able to control the computer by taking screenshots and sending them back to …