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The Dawn of GUI Agent: A Preliminary Case Study with Claude 3.5 Computer Use
This study explored use cases of Claude 3.5 Computer Use - an API based GUI (Graphical User Interface) agent. It’s worth paying attention to this as I suspect that we will soon see Google’s version of Computer use - AI agents that can take actions on our behalf.
Here’s how Claude computer use works - A user presents an instruction in natural language and the agent completes a series of actions on the desktop to complete the instruction. For each step the agent observes the state of the GUI based on screenshots and then decides on which action to take next. It can click on things, move the mouse, type and drag and drop.
Some of the many tasks accomplished in these tests include:
- Finding ANC Headphones under $100 on Amazon
- Find the latest local and trending music and add to a playlist
- Search for products on Amazon and record prices in Excel
The model was far from perfect. It sometimes assumed a task had been completed when it had not. Still, I feel that we are only just at the beginning of a new paradigm where much of what we do as humans can be completed by machines.