To somewhat limited fanfare, OpenAI has come out with a groundbreaking tool that can use a computer for you, and it’s been out most of this year, available to the company’s elite tier of “pro” users.

In a live-streamed video on Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced Operator as a system that can search the web, move a cursor, click on webpages, and generally do much of what a human can do ...