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This is an early idea of how an AI travel agent could look. As the tech advances, users could bypass online travel agencies altogether.
A new piece of AI is meant to perform computer tasks — including making travel plans — the same way a human would.
Anthropic, a generative AI startup and competitor to OpenAI, released an early version of a feature that it says can complete tasks like by “looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking buttons, and typing text.”
Anthropic is the company behind the generative AI search engine Claude and it released three demonstrations of the tech on Tuesday. One of them was for making travel plans — a common demo that competitors OpenAI and Google have also leaned on when showing how their AI works.
“Instead of making specific tools to help Claude complete individual tasks, we're teaching it general computer skills — allowing it to use a wide range of standard tools and software programs designed for people. Developers can use th