The Dawn of GUI Agent: A Preliminary Case Study with Claude 3.5 Computer Use
This is an incremental case study that provides a groundwork for understanding the capabilities and limitations of a new GUI agent, targeting researchers and developers in the AI and automation community.
The paper tackles the problem of evaluating the real-world capabilities of Claude 3.5 Computer Use, a new GUI agent, by curating tasks across various domains and software, demonstrating its unprecedented ability in end-to-end language to desktop actions.
The recently released model, Claude 3.5 Computer Use, stands out as the first frontier AI model to offer computer use in public beta as a graphical user interface (GUI) agent. As an early beta, its capability in the real-world complex environment remains unknown. In this case study to explore Claude 3.5 Computer Use, we curate and organize a collection of carefully designed tasks spanning a variety of domains and software. Observations from these cases demonstrate Claude 3.5 Computer Use's unprecedented ability in end-to-end language to desktop actions. Along with this study, we provide an out-of-the-box agent framework for deploying API-based GUI automation models with easy implementation. Our case studies aim to showcase a groundwork of capabilities and limitations of Claude 3.5 Computer Use with detailed analyses and bring to the fore questions about planning, action, and critic, which must be considered for future improvement. We hope this preliminary exploration will inspire future research into the GUI agent community. All the test cases in the paper can be tried through the project: https://github.com/showlab/computer_use_ootb.