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.

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.