Opera has introduced a new feature called Browser Operator, aimed at automating online tasks for users. Demonstrated through a video, the technology reveals its capability to perform tasks like shopping and booking effortlessly. The agent can operate on various websites while ensuring user control and privacy. Though its exact efficiencies are still in question, it represents a transformative step in browser functionality, potentially shifting its role to become an active assistant rather than a passive tool.
For more than 30 years, the browser gave you access to the web, but it has never been able to get stuff done for you. Now it can. This is different from anything we've seen or shipped so far. The Browser Operator we're presenting today marks the first step towards shifting the role of the browser from a display engine to an application that is agentic and performs tasks for its users.
The promise of the feature is the same as other agents that we have seen. You describe the task to the agent, it will browse around the website and trying to go through different pages to finish the task, and you will have free time to do whatever you want to do between these tasks.
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