Opera has announced Browser Operator, an artificial intelligence-based agent for the browser that can search for things, book tickets and accommodations, and perform many other tasks on behalf of the user.
The new feature is currently in testing, but will soon be available to a wider range of users. In the video, Opera demonstrates how an agent finds socks on the site, football tickets on the club's website, and searches for a hotel on Booking.com.
Opera also emphasizes privacy. Unlike other similar solutions, the company's agent does not use screenshots or session videos to analyze what is happening on the screen. It works directly in the browser, using the document object model and browser layout data to obtain the necessary context.
The company emphasizes that this approach makes the agent work faster because he does not need to see and analyze the screen pixel by pixel or navigate it with a mouse. Another advantage that Opera highlights is the ability for the operator to access the entire page at once, without having to scroll.
Opera says the AI agent runs entirely in the browser and doesn't require a virtual machine or cloud server, so it doesn't record browsing history, login logs, cookie settings, or other data.