The Verge tests OpenAI Dots: paid accounts only; handles website and video work, but errands often need a human
OpenAI’s Dots agent is not free: it is available only to paid accounts, with the highest tier first. The Verge tested it on a $100-a-month Pro account: it delivered a personal website redesign and a video edit, but repeatedly got stuck on website checks and once missed a free option.
The Verge tried OpenAI’s Dots agent: you chat with it in one window and watch it operate a cloud virtual machine in another; you can also let it use your own computer through the ChatGPT desktop app, and call it to talk things through.
Dots is not free. The Verge says OpenAI is offering it first to its highest-tier accounts, including the $100-a-month Pro account the author used; Platformer says Dots will initially be available only to paid ChatGPT users. In other words, free users cannot use Dots for now.
On the author’s personal website, Dots iterated on a prototype based on changes discussed over a call and, after being granted access to the computer and the site backend, deployed it; it also combined several video files on the desktop into one clip sized for social media. These are specific tasks completed by this author; the article gives no success rate across users.
Other tasks went less smoothly: booking an internet installation stalled at a check requiring a human press-and-hold, logging into an Ikea account got stuck in a looping security check, and it missed a coworking space’s free tour, offering a $35 day pass instead. After the author helped it log into Uber Eats, Dots did complete the food order. The author sees it as “Codex, but for regular people,” but not worth $100 a month for their own work.
Sources
- OpenAI’s Dot agent is enterprise software that can also order your dinner — The Verge AI
- OpenAI connects the Dots — www.platformer.news