Anthropic's Tuesday announcement that it's giving its Claude model a new "computer use" capability has the AI world buzzing.Why it matters: This doesn't mean that bots have busted free of the chat box to run loose on the desktop and in the browser — but that day looks much closer,

Anthropic's latest version of Claude can 'read' a computer via screenshots and operate its mouse and keyboard, performing basic data entry tasks.

The experimental "computer use" capability points toward AI encroaching further into the realm of human skills.

Anthropic has rolled out the Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI model with a feature in the public beta that can operate a computer simply by looking at what’s on the screen. The API also includes a new feature called “computer use,” which allows developers to command Claude to work on a computer like a human would.

For starters, it could launch a prompt injection attack on itself... The latest version of AI startup Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model can use computers – and the developer makes it sound like that's a good thing.