Operai presents a new AI agent for research

A week ago, Openai launched a tool that can be connected online to buy groceries or reserve a restaurant reserve. It is now offering ai technology that can collect information from every internet and synthesize it in concise reports.

Openai announced the new tool, called Deep Research, with a demonstration on YouTube on Sunday, days after showing technology to legislators, political leaders and other officials in Washington.

“You can do complex research tasks that could take a person between 30 minutes and 30 days,” said Kevin Weil, Operai Product Director, at the event in Washington. On the contrary, deep research can perform such tasks in five to 30 minutes, depending on complexity.

artificial intelligence researchers call this type of technology an ai agent. While chatbots can answer questions, write poems and generate images, agents can use other software and internet services. This could involve from ordering dinner through Dordash to synthesizing information from all over the Internet.

During the informative session at Capitol Hill, Mr. Weil showed the technology collecting information about Albert Einstein. He asked the tool to gather a detailed report on the physicist for a hypothetical member of the Senate personnel who prepare for an audience in the congress where Einstein is nominated for the Secretary of Energy of the United States.

In addition to providing information about Einstein's background and personality, he generated five questions that a senator could ask the physicist to determine if he was the right person for the work.

“You can navigate the web and understand the text, images and PDF,” Weil said. “And you can do this recursively. You can do a search, and that leads to other searches, and then you can synthesize all the information you have learned. ”

Weil said the reports generated by the tool included quotes that show where the information was found. But the technologies of ai as this can still be wrong or even invent information, a phenomenon that researchers of ai call “hallucination.” This can mean that it provides incorrect quotes.

Operai said the tool could have difficulty distinguishing the authorized information from rumors and that often failed to convey precisely when I was not sure about the information I delivered.

Even so, Mr. Weil argued that the tool could help the United States accelerate economic growth. He added that the tool would be particularly useful for people in fields such as finance, science and law.

(The New York Times has sued Openai and his partner, Microsoft, accusing them of the infringement of the copyright of the news content related to the IA. OpenAI and Microsoft systems have denied those statements).

Openai said that, as of Sunday, a deep investigation would be available for anyone who has been subscribed to Chatgpt Pro, a service of $ 200 per month that provides access to all the company's latest tools. It also plans to offer the tool through its other services paid.

The tool is based on the same technology that drives chatgpt. This technology is what the researchers of ai call a neuronal network, a mathematical system that can learn skills analyzing data.

In recent months, Openai has developed versions of technology that can “reason” through tasks, determining through proof and error what actions to take. Deep research is based on the company's most recent reasoning technology, Openai O3.