It can also ask follow-up questions to further personalize the tasks it completes, such as login information for other websites. Users can take control of the screen at any time.

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

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.