OpenAI’s Operator: AI Agent Automates Web Tasks #1793

The lead story today for Geek News Central. OpenAI unveils Operator, an AI agent in Research Preview for preview Chat GPT Pro users in the United States. This browser based tool automates tasks like filling out forms, ordering groceries, and planning trips. By interacting with web interfaces, it combines GPT 4 vision and reasoning, can solve correct and seeks users approval for sensitive actions. Welcome to episode 1,793 coming to you this Thursday, January 23rd. I'm your host, Todd Cochran.

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I was so out of focus. It wasn't even pretty. So if any of you joined us and watched the show on Monday and saw the blob, I I do I do apologize. I re I really do. But tell you, I've been fighting this bug all week. The head cold is, yeah, we're gonna say 90% and, you know, but I was coughing and hacking so much that now my my back is just is

just killing me. So just one thing leads to the other and, of course, I was very very close and on the sore throat range and luckily, I, you know, I survived, and did not, it hasn't gone full blown, you know, inflamed throat. So I'm here, ready to knock a show out for you and, thank you all for for being online. We do want to, talk about our insiders. We'll do that a little bit later in the show and those that have you that have been using a modern podcast apps as

well. But I tell you, once in a while, we, we get lucky here and the lead story tonight

is is directly from Geek News Central and it's a story about OpenAI and, what they're what they're doing here. OpenAI has released this research preview, an AI agent called operator. Now it's gonna cost if you have to be on their pro plan at 200, yes, $200 a month, but, it's a it's one of the first agents and, it, combines, GPT 4 vision capabilities with advanced reasoning to be able to interact with websites.

So, you know, this very, very soon, is gonna get to the point where I can probably give it a bunch of sources and it'll go out and help build a show. I don't wanna you know, I'm not gonna Kirk is still safe, but at some point, I I could see where if I trained it well enough, it it could do some of those functions. Time will tell on where all this is leading.

I know that, this week, I've been reviewing, some scripts that we've been writing for some YouTube videos we're gonna create and I've been very very careful to make sure the team hand wrote the scripts because I I want to make sure it's natural. It's not using those kicker phrases, and it's a big job. It's a big job writing scripts and, I can see where someone would want to cheat a little bit. But I I mean, it's so so straightforward

with the team. I said, hey. We we can't do that because people will smell the AI in the air, if and, obviously, we're gonna have a team member that is going to be recording it. So it's, you know, we're gonna have a human in the loop, but I still didn't want, the script to be done by by AI. And, so, but I tell you, I've used I use AI in a lot of other things, that is for sure.

And, now that I've kind of built my my doppelganger and fed it, you know, ears of my writings and different stuff like that, it's it's pretty good. It gets pretty close to to hitting the mark. It it really, really does. So I think that it's gonna be much harder going forward to see what's real and what isn't. So you can always guarantee that, this show will be hosted by a human and,

with all my all my inconsistencies and everything else that goes along. Wouldn't it be boring to listen to a show where the the person's perfect every time? Don't don't wouldn't that get old pretty fast? I I just think it would and there goes my nose. And where did I put my Kleenex? Of course. I have a couple left here. I took it to the other room. That's what I did. So you guys saw me if you guys were watching the show the other night, my nose was just running like crazy. I've been pretty

good all day. I don't know why I just decided to start now. I guess because I'm talking a lot. Let's move on to the next story. Comcast has a new $70 streaming bundle, has live sports news and Peacock, but it's only available for certain customers. Now why are they doing this? Launching Thursday, company's offering Xfinity Sports and News. Again, a package that include more than 50

channels and ad supported Peacock premium subscription. Viewers can watch NFL, MLB, NHL, MLB, and college games along with TV shows. So, you know, I am not again, take the sports out. I I don't care. I don't need any sports channels. I know some of you do, but for me, you know, it's almost like you can't escape any of these bundles with, without, without getting, you know, hit up for sports. By the way, are any of you watching the Dune series

on I think it's on Max. Have you guys any of you watched that? Not bad. Not bad at all, ladies and gentlemen. Google and Samsung are collaborating to bring spatial audio experience for more users. They're working in an open source spatial audio format, and I keep hearing about spatial audio where it surrounds you. Do you really want my voice to surround you? I'm already in your head as if you listen to this show on earbuds, so I just can't imagine

being around you. But consumers' audio listening experience has come a long way, and, of course, they are seeing a gradual shift from stereo sound experience to spatial audio. So I I guess it's it's almost like the days of I've told you guys about this before and I barely can remember it now. It's about a box I had that would turn AM into FM and it would super hetrodine and it was all it's just it was it was wild. It was just some scam.

Someone had put a box together, you know, and, I don't know how much money I I spent on it, but it it really didn't. It I think it just split 2 it split 2 mono channels, and I don't think it did any I don't think there was any offset or anything like that, but, yeah, that was back in the, whoo, probably the seventies. Yes. I'm dating myself.

SpaceX scrapped a flight as a plane entered the launch space seconds before liftoff. It was skirting the edge. Apparently, it was a Delta Airlines flight on the way to Honolulu, and, they didn't make quick enough of a left hand turn coming out of LAX. So, the FAA said, hey. You guys are gonna be prime zone to see the see the launch, and, yeah, apparently, it was too close. And with 11 seconds to go, they they scrapped the the the launch.

So, maybe SpaceX ought to be doing a little more coordination, as well. There's an article over in Digital Trends talking about T Mobile. Matter of fact, T Mobile had me do a weird

a very weird survey the other day, and it it was basically it was kinda and I took it just because I want to see what they're gonna ask, but it was, who do you know has you know, what service? And America has satellite, you know, has a satellite carrier. Of course, I know T Mobile's got this thing going on with SpaceX. I know that's coming, but it looked to me like it was a survey meant to inform people that soon T Mobile will be able to be satellite connected.

But, one carrier, T Mobile, has outperformed others over the past 6 months according to data collected by Speedtest. The report which covers data collected between July December found that T Mobile, the 3rd largest carrier, has emerged as a clear leader in overall performance. T Mobile provides media down speeds a 120% faster than its closest competitor, AT and T. Verizon largest carrier by subscribers count ranked 3rd.

These speeds are enough for Ookla, o o k l a, to include T Mobile offers the best mobile gaming experience. I don't do any mobile gaming so this really doesn't help me at all. This should not be a surprise at all, but exclusive from Reuters,

ByteDance plans a $20,000,000,000 data center in 2025 mostly being spent on AI. So they're gonna do this in capital capital expenditures. They're privately held tech giant, which is, you know, got about 70 days left here in the United States before our deal has to be done, but they're going to, they're going to jump into AI even deeper although they're saying they have some stuff out now that will complete with OpenAI. That's what everyone says.

Meanwhile, Perplexity launches an assistant for Android.

So if you have an Android device and you are a Perplexity fan, you can get this assistant. It's an agent of sorts called Perplexity Assistant, It uses reasoning search and apps to help with daily task. It's available Android devices, and the company says is that it like hailing a ride or searching for a song because the search engine is very, very powerful. So, I do have an Android device so I will definitely and I have a subscription to Perplexity so I will definitely be, be checking this

out. If you're a WordPress user, beware there's a popular theme plugin. They have some security risks out there. Patchstack found 2 bugs in a WordPress theme. The bugs were addressed in the latest version, but users are advised to disable the product to limit new account creation from Inspiree themes. So if you have an Inspiree, I n s p I r y theme, be careful.

So signing data patch that says Real Home is purchased. Oh, so it's it's a plug in also called Real Homes. So expiry themes has not responded. What else is going on here? Okay. The theme and plug in in question are called Real Homes and Easy Real Estate by Inspiree Themes. Real estate and easy real estate. Both flaws allows malicious actors to elevate their privileges to admin. It's been installed 32,000 times and but the the developer has not responded at all. So it's it's in the wild and not

been fixed. So make sure you shut those 2 off if you have something that sounds like that. Do the investigation here. Come over to the website and grab the link. Faster braige excuse me. Faster brain aging has been tied to an x chromosome inherited from your mother. Are they referring to humans? Says female mammals typically carry 2 chromosomes, 1 from each parent, and new study suggests that the maternal X is linked to faster brain aging. Okay. They said mammals.

The chromosome passed from mom to offspring may celebrate brain aging. The researcher highlights a potential fundamental difference in how males and females brains age. The research was conducted in mice, but if findings translate to humans, they could point to sex specific drivers of cognitive decline and, eventually, ways to prevent or treat them. So so far, the men or the male mice, basically go brain dead sooner. I think a lot of women would agree most of us are pretty

brain dead already. Anyway, what what say you?

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and that we also love your time and talent if you contribute it and help with the show. Very scary thing for someone that had a gaming mouse. Gaming mouse had went up in flames nearly caused an apartment fire. Anyone that sees this mouse that just basically melted would absolutely freak out. You would never think that that connected to a USB port would would go that crazy.

It's a Gigabit M6880x gaming mouse and the user who went by the u username Loma Lynn shared images showing the melted mouse burn marks on the desk and destroyed mouse pad. They recounted discovering the device burning with large

flames, which then quickly extinguished. So probably what happened was that this got hot enough, and this is a mouse that's over a decade old, so it's pretty so not a spring chicken in the in the mouse arena and, probably once the plastic got going, you know, it it went going but, no no mention on, what happened with the computer that it it was hit to hooked to.

A government is demanding answers from Apple over iOS 18 performance problems. Now we know that there were some performance problems when iOS 18 initially came out, And today, Apple has received a stern notice from India's consumer watchdog over the performance issues, by iPhone users after installing update. It's not quite the same as Apple deliberately slowing down old phones because iOS 18 will also affect the latest iPhone models.

The notice was issued by the Central Consumer Protection Authority, a regulatory issue agency that oversees consumer grievances and violations of their rights rights while also conducting investigation in issuing orders related to to recalls. So, that, was the situation and and Apple will have to excuse me. Apple will have to to to respond to that. What's next in my stack here?

A record number of ransomware attacks in December. NCC Group on Wednesday published its cyber threat intelligence report for December 2024 and pointed out the number of ransomware attacks seen at the end of the year, is the highest of any month since it started tracking the the activity. The cybersecurity ransomware attacks in December was 574 with a threat group called funcsec accounting for more than 100 attacks or 18% of of the total.

And the group, whose member are likely inexperienced hackers appear to be involved in both hacktivism and cybercrime. So, anyway, it's it's ongoing, not surprising whatsoever that these, these ongoing attacks happen. There's a very weird article on digital trends and it's talking about touch screens may hide secrets about how we make decisions. And when I saw this, I was like, are they looking at our fingerprints on a on a closed device? No. No. No. It has nothing to do with that.

According to a research team at the University of Alberta, in the future, the moment the movements that we make on our phones could be tracked to inform doctors about injury recovery. The paper states that decisions require actions that have an effect on the world. Measures derived from movements, such as using a mouse and control a cursor on a screen, provide a powerful and dynamic in this indices

or indicators of decision making. Goes on to say that touch screens provide more informative results for understanding indecision compared to computers. We can actually understand a a lot of what's going on in someone's head by carefully measuring what's going on outside their head.

Craig Chapman, an associate professor who worked on the research told sci.org, participant use a Android smartphone, smartphone, or tablet, and completed time task, which involve making decisions, tapping and swiping to complete tasks centered around what the research calls research decisions, where a choice of options were presented in different areas of the screen.

We think touch devices are perhaps even better for revealing movement signatures of decision making because you have to move and interact in a in a more realistic way. So very, very interesting. Now, I could see where this might be used for another reason. Let's say that you are on workman's comp and they're trying to figure out if you're actually getting up, moving around, doing the things that you're supposed to do or,

not supposed to be doing. And could they use the data from your phone to correlate that to your workman's comp? As an example, you're not supposed to be painting the house, but yet the phone detects movements. It's up and down. It might be as indication that you're healthier than you say you are. So, interesting. According to finance at Yahoo,

CEOs have a new skill to learn managing AI employees. Adjentic AI, which is the new buzzword this year, which makes decisions without human input, is a hot topic, and AI agents promise tangible benefits but raise questions such as whether they should get KPIs. Business leaders now have to work out how to manage autonomous spots alongside human employees. We're using AI to get faster and leaner, but what happens when AI is just not your tool but your colleague or employee?

So that's something to think about. LATA CEO Sarah Franklin spent a lot of time thinking about this. Our company which builds HR software announced last year that was going to treat AI workers like humans by giving them official records and even putting them through onboarding like a real human. That actually humans weren't keen on the idea, and she hit pause after backlash. Now why would you onboard

them like a real human? You just dump all you gotta do is say, here's the 52 documents in our training manual and our company policy document that you have to live by, except you get to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Working hours for you are different. It it right now, all our interfaces

with AI is through a keyboard. We're axing acting AI or through an API. We're acting we're asking the AI to do things for us. But when you set it up to do a task, when you say, okay. I want you to look at this every 3 hours or better yet, tie it to a sales system. Every time a a new sales comes in, ring that up, put a report, tell me where that came from, what they signed up for, what the show of the name is. We can build personas.

It would it's gonna be pretty amazing to better serve our customers, and this can happen in real time as they're coming in. And we can point them in the right direction to have a better onboarding. This is what AgenTic AI is gonna bring for all of us. So these are gonna be great tools, maybe a little bit scary tools. That's for sure. They would assume, you know, someone was coming in and creating a show today called Geek News Central.

Well, you would automatically assume that that person just a little more technical than the average Joe. So maybe you throw some more advanced options at that individual during the onboarding. Whereas someone that's doing a podcast about, I I don't know, whatever topic, you can set the experience level to that level. So business owner, church, news organization, culture show, entertainment, all could have a different onboarding path. Pretty exciting to think what the future would hold.

Of course, the president was with the Stargate group, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella. Oh, actually, he wasn't there. It was the Oracle guy and the guy from SoftBank were all at the White House pledging $500,000,000,000. Elon says, hey. They they don't have the 500. They don't actually have the money.

And, the initial pledges by Stargate Partners were about a 100,000,000,000, part of which is being invested in a data center in Abilene, Texas, but Musk pulled cold water and claims saying SoftBank is under 10,000,000,000 secured. I have that in good authority. Later post, a reply criticizing Altman says, Musk said, same as a swindler. So they all went back and forth, and, we don't know how much money all of them have anyway, but, you know, 500,000,000,000

sounds like a good number. Right? Sounds like a great number to invest in AI. Absolutely. NASA's gonna fly rockets into Aurora Borealis to find out what causes their unique mo moments. Of course, Aurora Borealis is the northern lights, so that is the plan. They're gonna shoot rockets, fly rockets into it. They're gonna do that in Alaska to attempt to better understand the Aurora Borealis or AKA the Northern Lights. So isn't it all about magnetics and particles in the air?

I guess what they guess that's what they gotta find out,

So this is a little bit of a weird one, and I think we've kinda covered this topic. And, by the way, we we I'm gonna show you guys this website, those of you that are watching. This is the Daily Mail. Look at all the ads on this. Myers, The Rookie. What else? Something Internet. Some pop up down here in the corner. Frontier. There's 2 there's 2 two services competing against each other and the ability to actually even change the ads. It's it's it's nuts what they've got going on

this page. But the the title of this, post is visitor from outer space may have warped the solar system. Well, scientists have suggested for a while that something caused Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune to have a little bit different orbit. They said that prevailing solar system formation theories indicate planets should have at least started out falling perfectly circular and share the same orbit.

Well, they run this through a computer, and they say a mysterious object, a visitor, was about how big? It was huge. It flew as close as 1.69 astronomical units from the sun, and that its diameter woulda had to have been, like, massive.

Does it say? They don't say what size. All it had to be is pretty big and, oh, it's an object 8 times more massive than Jupiter. That's pretty big. Just kinda floating through, you know, or speeding through, whatever may happen. So that's how big the object would have had to have been. So, not not a rookie in the in the planet category at all. Record shattering 20,000 mile per hour winds have detected on a wild alien planet.

Yes. Wind circling a gas giant more than 500 light years away have been decked and flowing at supersonic speeds approaching 33,000 kilometers or 20,000 miles per hour making them the fastest air currents on any known planet. Yeah. I think those are not gonna be good landing conditions, and I don't think there's gonna be very much on the surface of that planet at all. So, they looked at the spectrum of light to do to determine that.

Meanwhile, Hubble has discovered a mysterious star in the Milky Way dubbed the Blue Lurker. Hubble's uncovered a star, of course, Hubble, you know, look what it keeps on doing. It's out there. It keeps creating great discovering great science. Dove the blue lurker, this mystery object spins faster than it should and no one knows why. So, anyway, this is a star that's in our Milky Way, so not too far out but they they don't know. They can understand why the star is spinning the way it should.

You know, everyone is freaking out and, of course, there's all kinds of examples going on over the net right now. Everyone's freaking out about Elon Musk and some gesture he made that some people are saying it looked like he made the Nazi salute, but yet you go through and there's dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of pictures of all kinds of political people, kind of, doing the same kind of motion

that he does. But some people on Reddit got so upset, more than 100 Reddit communities have banned users and posting links to x. Critics, including some historians, said it was a Nazi salute. Miss nurse Musk is dismissed as saying comparisons with Hitler's were tired and dirty tricks. So,

x is not commented, but Reddit stress there's no site wide ban on x links, but yet some Reddit channels are saying don't link to x. Okay. Don't raise your hand in the wrong way, ladies and gentlemen. Be careful out there. If you wanna know what's gonna be new on Netflix, we have the link in the show notes tonight. So everything new in February is on the website.

LinkedIn, of course, just like everyone else, is facing lawsuits over acquisitions that private messages been used to train AI. Lawsuit is seeking $1,000 per user among other fees, and, the Microsoft OHM job site is a great look to position yourself as a standard social media platform. I tell you, it's it's it's got as much spam as any platform out there. It just drives me crazy. Every once in a while, a good contact comes through, but you gotta filter through all the other junk.

But, so there's another lawsuit running. A Tesla charger exploit has earned a hacker $129,000 at pawn to own. Pawn to own pod to own. A total of $335,000 paid out on the second day of the event with the 382,750 were in the 1st day, bringing the total to 700 and 18,250. Oh, 335 was paid on the 2nd day. On the 2nd day's total, 129.5

was earned for exploits targeting Tesla's wall connector charger. A whole bunch of people went after Tesla chargers. There was about 300 grand given out for that. At Honda owned automotive 2025, I guess it was the automotive stuff was the target this year. At last year's event, participants earned $1,300,000 for exploits again targeting Tesla's EV chargers and infotainment systems, so, plenty of bugs abound. How many of you'd like to have a robot?

I'd like to have a robot that would just, you know, if nothing else, pick up after me. I make myself a sandwich. It would we put the lunch meat back in the refrigerator, put the, you know, put the mayonnaise, you know, and put the lettuce away. You know? Just something would just clean up after me. That would be a perfect robot to have. Nothing more than maybe make the bed. That would be kinda cool. Right? Or change the sheets when when you know, when it detected it needed to be changed.

I bet you the robot would change them a lot after than we all do. But there was a good article, good story,

from, doctor Doom Robini who says human aid robots may up in economy, and I I think this is true, especially on the business side. Evolution of human made robots that essentially follow individual workers on the factory floor in a construction site, even a chef in a restaurant or housekeeper, I don't think that's terrifying, to be honest with you. I don't know how the robot's gonna get

up my stairs though. I guess we have to carry them up but, the Human Aid robot market could reach 7,000,000,000,000 by 2050. Be honest with you, if you had a robot that could be your house cleaner, would you would you would you have one? I don't know how one would get around here without tripping because, to be honest with you, I got stuff packed in so tight now, adding the studio and then kinda readjusting everything. Everything kinda got cramped.

It it it this I'd probably come back and the studio would be in shambles because the robot would probably fall and smash its face and break everything in in between. So there would have to be some serious exclusion zone, maybe even exclusion zones around the liquor cabinet. Right? You don't want the robot drinking your liquor, you know, or mistaking it for, cleaning materials or something. You know, time will tell what's gonna happen with this, but I think it'll be cool.

I guess ChatGP went offline for a little while and people were freaked out. Down detector showed more than 10,000 people report that EI chatbot, which was made by OpenAI, was not working in the UK on today. Oh, it's Thursday. OpenAI said a status page was of infillment effects at 15:0:9 GMT, so no comment on the outage, but when you're doing this leading technology, it's likely gonna happen. They opened up a new, API today, a new model. We are talking about it. So,

next week, I'm excited to be able to be implementing some of that on some of the stuff we're we're doing at Blueberry. PowerSchool. How many have heard about this? If you have children in school, maybe you know about this. PowerSchool hack keeps getting worse. 62,000,000 students now thought to be affected. More than 9,000,000 teachers are also affected. The victim are looking in United States, Canada, and

elsewhere. So, apparently, the hackers stole 62,000,000,488,000 records of all kinds of personal information, so your kid's Social Security and all that stuff that, normally, you don't want leaked out has been put in these hackers' hands. The Wall Street Journal, which I don't have the ability to read very many articles a month, but I able to have this one goes back and talks about the OpenAI Stargate deal and about a shift away from Microsoft, which

is interest, very interesting. Now Microsoft said they were investing some money, but I don't know how much. But Microsoft's assets run the opening a Stargate announcement follows months of tension between the companies and signals a new era in which the longtime partners will be less reliant on each other. Again, Sam Altman, Oracle's Larry Ellison, SoftBank's, Mayoshi Son, and President Trump discuss how AI could create jobs and even cure cancer, and I believe that.

I could I think the medical field is is very open here, but this is a good, I guess, my 1 or 2 reads a month I get get for the Law Street Journal. If you can't load it, I I apologize, but, they're just wondering if, if Microsoft is,

my god, Bloomberg. I have to click 3 things before okay. What do I have to do? Continue reading with the options below or pay with a credit card. What are the options below? I don't wanna sign in. I don't wanna create an account. I'm already allowing ads on your site. Oh, it just refreshed. Oh, I don't get to see everything. Read this article. I still don't wanna register. TikTok weighs non sale options, which is interesting.

So this is the first time they've said that they may base everything here in the United States, which would get around the law. This is the the issue. All the American database stuff would be in America and American servers. There's more to it, obviously, but, they're considering that. And I guess they've got about 70 today is what? Today's Thursday so they have 71 days left. There's a good art wired article about Subaru Security Flog exposes systems for tracking millions of cowers cars.

Now fixed web bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start millions of Subarus. More disturbing, they could also access at least of the year's car location history,

and Subaru employees still can. Wow. So, again, I've read my complimentary article over on Wired. You own a Subaru? What do you think about that? And here it is. TikTok owner, ByteDance, deep seek lead, Chinese push in AI reasoning. So, again, they released an update to us, like, shop AM out of challenging Microsoft backed OpenAI. They say this is doobadoo 1.5 pro, and it claims it outperforms OpenAI's o one in anime, a benchmark test that measures how well a

models under respond to complex instructions. I would hope not, to be honest with you. So we'll see what more is talked about this. So this is gonna bring me to the end. [email protected], [email protected]. Before you run off, consider becoming a a subscriber if you're not already at geekincentral.com. Consider becoming an insider at geekincentral.comforward/insider. It's been my pleasure to bring you the podcast here as we walk our way to 1800.

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