THE creators of ChatGPT have released a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can do all your online shopping and bookings for you in the UK.

Operator, which was announced last month, is an autonomous tool that can take your weekly shopping list and complete it for you.

All it needs is a photo of your shopping list, and then it will go ahead and purchase what you need online.

It can even order a cab on Uber, or book a table at your favourite restaurant through the platform OpenTable.

The AI-powered tool has been trained to surf the web like a human, navigating whatever webpages, menus and buttons it sees using a keyboard and mouse.

While it’s not a physical robot tapping and clicking on a physical keyboard and mouse – it can do it all virtually, on its own.

Users can take control of the tool at any time.

And people won’t have to worry about the AI going on a rogue shopping spree, either.

OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, says Operator will ask the user to take over for tasks that require a login or payment details.

That way, users can avoid giving the AI free use of their payment details – and can double check an order before the purchase is made.

The tool is currently classes as a “research preview” – meaning it’s not quite a finished product.

It was only rolled out to members of ChatGPT’s Pro subscription in the US last month.

But UK subscribers of the service, which costs $200 / £159 per month, can access Operator from today.

“We think this is going to be a big trend in AI and really impact the work people can do, how productive they can be, what they can accomplish,” OpenAI boss, Sam Altman, said during the announcement of Operator in January.

Operator is what’s known as an ‘AI agent’.

These are tools that can take on administrative tasks, like the weekly food shop, to save us humans some time.

Earlier this year, Altman said he believed AI agents would begin to “join the workforce” in 2025.

They are capable of being trained in most admin chores for sectors like finance, customer service and sales.

Altman, who launched ChatGPT only two years ago, said such AI agents would “materially change the output of companies” – making them more efficient.

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