It can also ask follow-up questions to further personalize the tasks it completes, such as login information for other websites. Users can take control of the screen at any time.

The new tool, called Operator, can shop for groceries or book a restaurant reservation. But it still needs help from humans.

The announcement confirms one of two rumors that circled the internet this week. The other was about superintelligence.

OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” ...