Towards Computer-Using Personal Agents
This addresses the need for more effective personal data automation in computer-using agents, though it appears incremental as an extension of existing CUAs.
The paper tackles the problem of automating complex tasks with personal data by proposing Computer-Using Personal Agents (CUPAs) that access an external repository of user data, resulting in better control, automation, interoperability, and coordination compared to existing agents.
Computer-Using Agents (CUA) enable users to automate increasingly-complex tasks using graphical interfaces such as browsers. As many potential tasks require personal data, we propose Computer-Using Personal Agents (CUPAs) that have access to an external repository of the user's personal data. Compared with CUAs, CUPAs offer users better control of their personal data, the potential to automate more tasks involving personal data, better interoperability with external sources of data, and better capabilities to coordinate with other CUPAs in order to solve collaborative tasks involving the personal data of multiple users.