AI Agents Are Coming Soon And They'll Change Your Life

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Artificial intelligence will continue to evolve. In the near future, we will be able to use technologies that will not only answer questions, but will also be able to perform actions for us on the internet. This is a new type of artificial intelligence called an “agent” that is capable of taking control of the user’s computer pointer and input, to navigate the internet or applications, in order to accomplish tasks such as ordering items online or making reservations.

Many companies are already on the job

In other words, we will only have to give an order to the AI, in natural language, for it to run on the PC. And currently, many players are already developing this technology. Among them, there is the Anthropic laboratory which, in October, presented its functionality called “computer use”. This is already offered as an API to developers who, according to the startup's explanations, can ask the artificial intelligence Claude “to use computers as people do, by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking on buttons and typing text.”

This December, Google also unveiled its Mariner project, which will be able to integrate Google Chrome to take control of it and perform online tasks. For example, the user will be able to give a list of companies to Mariner, and ask for a list of contacts. To obtain this list, the AI ​​will perform searches on Google, explore the sites of the companies on the list, in order to give the requested information to the user. It will also be possible to ask Mariner to add items to an Amazon cart, instead of performing this task manually. But for the moment, Mariner is still only a prototype and we do not know when it will be available in a stable version.

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“Project Mariner is an early research prototype built on Gemini 2.0 that explores the future of human-agent interaction, starting with your browser. As a research prototype, it can understand and reason through information on your browser screen, including pixels and web elements such as text, code, images, and forms, and then use that information through an experimental Chrome extension to perform tasks for you,” the company said in its presentation of the technology.

OpenAI and Apple are also in the mix

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, could also unveil its AI agents in 2025. Kevin Weil, product manager at OpenAI, believes this type of artificial intelligence could become mainstream. “These more agentic systems are going to become possible, and that’s why I think 2025 is going to be the year that agentic systems finally become mainstream,” he said, according to a Financial Times article in October.

Furthermore, while Apple does not use the term “AI agent,” it also plans to rely on artificial intelligence to allow users of its platforms to perform tasks more quickly. Among the new Apple Intelligence features that the firm plans to deploy in 2025, there is a new version of Siri that will be able to understand the information displayed on the screen and that will be able to perform “hundreds of actions” on Apple applications and third-party applications.

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