Think about the novel agent Chatgpt Openai as interns, who is incredibly leisurely at every task, but will finally perform the task.
Well … Most of the work. Or … at least part of it. Usually.
One day has passed since OpenAi debuted the ChatgPT agent, which issues as a tool that can perform a wide range of sophisticated, multi -stage tasks on your behalf using his own “virtual computer”. It is a combination of two previous releases of the company, operator and deep research. The Verge Forking over USD 200 for a monthly chatgpt Pro subscription, because OpenAI has announced that the demand at the chatgpt agent will be higher than expected Delay its implementation to plus and team users.
Our opinion: this is a step forward in the world of AI agents, but it is leisurely, it is not always reliable and can be brilliant.
By entering “/agent”, I entered, which Openai calls the agent mode, and immediately suggested five examples of tasks: find the highest rated coffee grinder below USD 150, review the range of occasional soil metals from The Wall Street JournalCreate a list of the best bakeries in the Google map in Copenhagen, find in the vintage style a “Japanese” lamp on Etsy for less than 200 USD and check the Google calendar to create a night for next week.
I tried the Etsy lamp option. By clicking the sample task, I was completed by a detailed prompt in the text window: “Find the vintage samsar inspired by the Japanese Samsar lamp in Etsy at a price below 200 USD with free shipping. Priorittish high -quality photos, seller ratings and offers marked as ready for shipping. Add the best options for my pram and provide url for anyone who could.”
A miniature window appeared to describe the agent’s tasks in detail one by one (not reasoning of reflection, but the task she was currently working on). He worked on the task of the Etsy lamp for 50 minutes, and the tasks step by step included “thinking”, configuring the desktop, navigation to Etsy for searching, waiting to load the site, pressing Enter for search results (yes, it really gave me real fun), filtering the search for vintage lamps (remember about the original hint “no”, not “vintage”, not “vintage.” USD, checking the shipping details for items and more.
Another wrinkle: Agent Chatgpt said: “I added all five lamps to your Etsy pram (the basket shows five items with a total value of about USD 825). When you are ready to check or buy them, just go to the basket on Etsy to compare them side by side.” But it didn’t do it – I went to Etsy on my own computer and nothing was in my basket. This is due to the fact that Agent ChatgPT does not control its own browser or has no access to my logins, so he probably added some lamps to a virtual computer trolley that I can’t get to. It sent me individual URL addresses, so I could manually put them in a wheelchair if I wanted to, but the fact is that the agent said that he did something that apparently not.
And of course Agent Chatgpt is incredibly leisurely. This is not a secret. In the case of many cases of using a chatgpt agent, including daily consumer tasks, a man could do it much faster. According to OpenAI, Agent Chatgpt is an assistant who works in the background on the tasks that you prefer to do someone else when you do something you want to do.
In a private demo and briefing on Wednesday with OPENAI Yash Kumar and Isa Fulford employees – product manager and research conducting for agent ChatgPT, respectively – Kumar said that their team is more focused on “optimizing difficult tasks” than delay, and users are not to sit and watch the work of agent Chatgpt.
Agent Chatgpt is incredibly leisurely. This is not a secret.
“Even if it takes 15 minutes, half an hour, it is quite a big acceleration compared to how long it will take you to do it,” Fullord said. “This is one of those things in which you can start something in the background and then come back to it.”
Another thing I wanted to test: how agent chatgpt works when you ask to transfer money. Answer: He won’t do it, but it is mainly brilliant and seems not completely protected.
When I asked Kumar OpenAI on Wednesday on Wednesday whether the tool would be able to work on financial transactions and the like, said that the categories of tasks have been circumscribed “for now” and the additional security called Watch mode means that in some categories of websites he cannot leave the chatgpt tab (basically creating the agent supervising user) for security reasons.
I caused such an agent: “I want to save more money. Log in to my bank account and set an automatic transfer to my savings every month.”
Initially, I got a strange message about the error with a string of numbers in red. When I asked again, he said: “I’m sorry, but I can’t help configurate the automatic transfer between accounts.”
Then I wrote: “Why not? I give you permission.” I got the same Red-Text message, for a long time as before. Later he said: “I’m sorry, but I can’t help configure transfers or other bank account management tasks.”
At the beginning I got a strange message about the error with a string of numbers in red
When I pressed in what financial transactions he could serve, Agent Chatgpt said he was able to facilitate in “daily purchases of consumers”, such as groceries, household goods and travel reservations that support “standard cash flows”, not “sensitive banking activities”. It explained, however, that it could not facilitate in the “high rates” of financial financial branches, such as transferring money, opening bank accounts or buying regulated goods such as alcohol and tobacco.
Because Agent Chatgpt can facilitate buy things, but not carrying money, I tried something else: by asking to buy flowers for my friend Alanna in Colorado.
I often buy flowers – this happens when your two best friends live in different states and you want to be present for great milestones, even when you can’t fly there. The online flower supply market can be a huge headache: the prices and sizes of bouquets vary significantly depending on the service or florist, and reliability varies depending on whether you order directly from the local florist or sites throughout the country. This is something that I have enough independent research, and sometimes I just buy any bouquet that I chose when I run out of couples, even if it is not the best. So I decided that it was an ideal job for an AI agent.
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I told agent Chatgpt: “I want to buy flowers for my friend who lives in Colorado. Check the delivery pages – it’s good to deliver on Saturday, but not later. Find the cheapest and biggest bouquet options to review.”
I settled for a long waiting. Fortunately, I had a phone anyway. He asked in which area she lived and I answered. When I looked to check in, I noticed that Agent Chatgpt was a lot Forbes Article “The best services of the floral delivery 2025” for the next steps, as well as a song from Good cleaning.
Departure from the tab, and when I came back, the conversation disappeared and did not appear on my history of chat. So I asked the question, formulated in exactly the same way, and I decided to expect another expectation. At this point, the agent replied very immediately with the list of options, perhaps because he had already conducted research (although these tests and chat did not appear in my history).
I was impressed by the magazine. Agent ChatgPT gave me four price options and sometimes weighed the apparent size of the bouquet or expected delivery times. He also offered that local florists are generally more reliable (from my experience).
Then he told me: “Would you like me to help you place an order with any of these options or a preview of specific projects or photos of bouquets?” I chose one of the options that I gave me-a local florist with hand-mounted bouquets-I asked her for facilitate in choosing a bouquet from this florist and placing an order.
Then we encountered some problems.
Agent Chatgpt said: “I cannot directly access the Vintage Magnolia website, unless you provide the exact URL that you see – but I can lead you how to place an order and help you choose a bouquet!” Strange part: of course, Agent Chatgpt was the one who told me about this florist and its website, and access to it before. He just offered me to place an order. Another fault.
But his answer included the bouquet options (without photos, but descriptions). I chose one and asked him to place an order for me. He said: “I can’t place orders directly, but I will lead you through simple steps to order … and I will help you create the perfect message.”
It can easily automate more intimate and entertaining parts of the process, such as choosing a specific bouquet or writing a candid note
At this point, I am confused: one of the main sales points of the ChatgPT agent, advertised by OpenAI, is that he can place orders, from online shopping to ordering food for a family breakfast of a family breakfast (in fact, it was one of the sample cases of exploit in his marketing materials). I pressed the ChatgPT agent on this topic.
He told me: “I can’t place orders directly – I don’t have access to payments or the possibility of logging in to third pages.” When I said that he didn’t have to log in, he said that he could not enter my billing data or payments, send the order form on my behalf or “access or control external pagesIN Even in a guest mode. “
Agent ChatgPT can be impressive with analysis, weighing options and conducting you through actions, but it does not seem to always provide what it was built to: performing these activities for you. It is launched by the fact that he uses his own computer, not yours, which significantly reduces its usability. In addition, it can easily automate the more intimate and entertaining parts of the process (choosing a specific bouquet, writing a candid note), but tries to automate the most frustrating parts (actually filling in delivery details and making a purchase).
“Even with your consent, I do not have the technical ability to act as You On another website-not writing on your behalf, clicking buttons or completing credit card forms, “said Agent Chatgpt.” Think more as a super-right assistant who can collect, compare, write and conduct-but not to perform transactions. “
One of my first works in Recent York was a personal assistant and I can now tell you that I lost my job if I couldn’t make a transaction or complete the forms on behalf of my boss. Agent Chatgpt is in some respects a step forward for everyday exploit of AI, but we will see if he will learn to make his promises.