We Let Openai's "agent Mode" Surf the Web for Us–here's What Happened
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The article explores the capabilities of OpenAI's 'Agent Mode' by letting it surf the web autonomously, with the discussion touching on the implications and potential limitations of such technology.
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>With seven minutes of background work, the agent was able to open up a new Google Sheet and quickly enter 12 rows of well-formatted data for 12 different PR contacts. Unfortunately, it stopped well before it had a chance to go through all 164 emails returned by that initial Gmail search.
This got 8/10 but it sounds like failure or maybe 5/10.