Isa Fulford, the research lead for OpenAI’s new ChatGPT agent, needed to order a bunch of cupcakes, so she asked the AI tool to do it for her. “I was very specific about what I wanted, and it was a lot of cupcakes,” she says. “That one took almost an hour—but it was easier than me doing it myself, because I didn't want to do it.”

OpenAI is rolling out a new feature for ChatGPT designed to make the AI chatbot a semi-autonomous digital assistant. CEO Sam Altman and several other OpenAI luminaries demonstrated the new ChatGPT Agent tool in a livestream, showcasing how it functions similarly to OpenAI's Operator tool, combined with the Deep Research feature.