Headline, February 21 2025/ ''' A.I'S -STUDENTS' SHIFT- AIM '''

''' A.I'S -STUDENTS'

 SHIFT- AIM '''

LOOKING TO A TIME WHEN MOST OF THE WORLD will be on '' Artificial Intelligence apps '' designed, created, interfaced, serviced, and updated by The World Students Society, most lovingly called !WOW!.

FROM A FEEDBACK from just about the entire world - I am, say, who is just about a dunce, is made to understand that leaders and countries all over consider !WOW! an impoverished sideshow, accounting for only a small share of the world's attention and effectiveness.

'' WELL dear respectful sires and madams and students, but what if that is poised to change? You are all about to enter a century and beyond as '' The World Students Society's Glorious Century. '' '' ! So, help us Almighty God ! ''

THE ESTEEMED Global Founder Framers of !WOW! will do well to remember that within the next decade '' we have to compete with both the United States and China. Even when combined.''

SAN FRANCISCO : IN THE PAST WEEK - OPEN A.I.'S OPERATOR has done the following things for me :

.-  Ordered me a new ice cream scoop on Amazon.

.-  Bought me a new domain name and configured its settings.

.-  Booked a Valentine's Day date for me and my wife.

.-  Scheduled a haircut.

It did these tasks mostly autonomously,  although I did have to nudge it along from time to time and occasionally nudge it from a loop of failed attempts.

If you're just catching up - or if you have been distracted by the DeepSeek news, which has overshadowed all other A.I.news - Operator is a new so-called A.I. released last month by OpenAI.

The tool, which was billed as a ''research preview,'' is available only to people who pay $200 a month for the company's highest subscription tier, ChatGPT Pro. It gives users the ability to direct an A.I. agent that can use a web browser, fill out forms and take other actions on their behalf.

A.I. agents are all the rage in Silicon Valley right now. Some industry insiders think they're the next big step in A.I. capabilities, because an A.I. agent that can use a computer can actually accomplish valuable real-world tasks, rather than just provide assistance.

Many of the leading A.I. companies, including Google and Anthropic, are testing autonomous agents that they claim companies will eventually be able to '' hire '' as full-fledged workers.

I upgraded my ChatGPT subscription to put Operator through its paces and see what an A.I. agent could do.

On the surface, Operator looks a bit like regular ChatGPT, except that when you give it a job - '' Buy me a 30-pound of dog food on Amazon,'' for example - Operator opens a miniature browser window, types '' Amazon.com '' into the address bar and starts clicking around, trying to follow your instructions.

It might ask a few clarifying questions. [ Do you want chicken-flavored or beef-flavored food? Overnight shipment or two-day?]. Then, once it's feeling confident that it has made the right choice, Operator prompts you for a final confirmation, puts the dog food in your cart and places the order.

[ Operator won't enter passwords or credit card numbers - you have to take over the mini-browser and type those things in yourself - but it does the rest on its own.]

The whole point of the Operator is that you don't have to supervise it - it can carry out tasks in the background while you're doing other things. But I found myself glued to the window, mesmerized by the sight of a self-driving web browser clicking on buttons, typing words into boxes and selecting from drop-down menus, all on its own.

Operator also did well on a few relatively simple tasks I give it :  

.-  It successfully ordered lunch on DoorDash for my colleague Mike and sent it to his house. [ I didn't tell it what to order him, but Operator chose a Mexican restaurant, picked out a handful of dishes for him and even tipped the delivery person $7.]

It responded to hundreds of unread LinkedIn messages for me, after I gave it control of my LinkedIn profile. [ Although, to my horror, it also registered me for a webinar.]

.-  It made $1.20 for me by setting up accounts on websites that offer small cash rewards for filling out surveys. [ It might have made more, but I started to feel guilty for spamming the surveys with fake, robot-written answers.]

But Operator also failed at a bunch of other tasks and revealed its limitations.

The Honour and Serving of Great Content on A.I. and the world, continues. The World Students Society thanks Kevin Roose.

With most respectful dedication to the Global Founder Framers of !WOW! - the exclusive and eternal ownership - of every student in the world.

See You all prepare for Great Global Elections on !WOW! - for every subject :  wssciw.blogspot.com and Twitter X !E-WOW! - The Ecosystem 2011 :

Good Night and God Bless

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