Anthropic says it is teaching its Claude AI model to perform general computing tasks based on prompts. In demonstration videos, the model is shown controlling the cursor of a computer to conduct research for an outing on the town, searching the web for places to visit near the user’s home and even adding an itinerary to their desktop calendar.

The move represents a small step toward a future where AIs don’t just generate content but control other systems and devices.

DesktopGPT If, for some reason, you wanted to hand over total control of your personal computer to an AI model, you can now do that with Anthropic. The OpenAI competitor released a new version of its Claude 3.