Operator use cases: 6 real examples
Agentic Feats lists 6 sourced examples of Operator in real work; 2 link the artifact; most common job type: research (4). Newest first.
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Operator returned the requested list of courses, fees and descriptions without further input, saving the author a few minutes of manual admin work.
Compiling a course list
OpenAI's Operator browsed the author's online course site and compiled a list of courses with fees and descriptions while they got coffee.
Operator handled tour search and lesson plan but was slow; adding three grocery items took 15 minutes and an Uber price check took five.
Hands-on Operator test
Casey Newton tested OpenAI's Operator on walking tours, a Gatsby lesson plan, Instacart groceries, and an Uber price check.
Operator collected data for about 25 of 100 schools before the author stopped it; o1 then built a working chart dashboard from that data.
School financials from ProPublica
Operator searched ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer for independent schools and logged their financial data into a Google Sheet; o1 then built a dashboard.
Both tasks failed. The concert search returned three wrong concerts after 33 minutes, and the Anki competitor list had incorrect data.
Operator concert and product research
Operator, OpenAI's browser agent, was tried on finding Berlin classical concerts and researching Anki competitors, using prompts and screen recordings.
Operator completed the restaurant search and booked the reservation, but a keto meal plan and a quilt pattern search came back weak.
Operator concert restaurant booking
Operator, tested by a member of Allie Miller's team, found a gluten-free restaurant near a Minneapolis concert venue and made a reservation.
It returned duplicate and months-old tweets, summarized one news source, copied a single listicle, and stopped to ask permission mid-task. The author says productivity dropped.
Operator review: tweets, news, builders
The author spent $200 on ChatGPT Operator and tested it on tweet analysis, AI news summaries, website builder pricing lists, and article summaries.
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