OpenAI is taking its ChatGPT chatbot to the next level, adding a feature to automate tasks like planning vacations, filling out forms, making restaurant reservations and ordering groceries.

The new tool, called Operator, can shop for groceries or book a restaurant reservation. But it still needs help from humans.

The secondhand marketplace says consumers are already reaping the benefits of the AI-enabled customer service tool.

ChatGPT launched in the fall of 2022 and quickly became the fastest-growing consumer software. The base version is free, but some users pay as much as $200 a month for the service. Around 300 million people use OpenAI's chatbot every week, and the chatbot handles more than 1 billion messages a day.

ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot run by OpenAI, went down Thursday morning for tens of thousands of users across the world.

Subscribers of ChatGPT Pro for $200, will likely be the first to try out a new development from OpenAI — the AI agent Operator, which will manage yo

OpenAI has rolled out new ChatGPT changes designed to humanize the AI-powered chatbot and add levels of personalization and customization.

OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, issued a statement on Thursday following a global outage of the AI-powered chatbot, attributing the issue to a problem with its provider, which caused high error rates. The company assured users that the issue would be resolved soon and that full recovery was underway.

Proponents say ChatGPT could reinvent online search engines and could assist with research, information writing, content creation and customer service chatbots. However, the service has at times become controversial, with some critics raising concerns that ChatGPT and similar programs fuel online misinformation and enable students to plagiarize.

ChatGPT, the AI chatbot by OpenAI, is facing a global outage, disrupting services for millions. Users report issues like slow logins and performance d

GenAI chatbot ChatGPT is currently down globally, leaving users who have grown accustomed to quick fixes from the chatbot in a frenzy.