AI computer use: a guide to browsers, desktop apps and real actions

Understand AI computer use and try practical browser testing and desktop workflows, with current OpenAI setup links and observable results.

Beyond the answer box. Into the interface.

An assistant with the right tools can inspect a page, operate a permitted app and verify what changed. Learn when to use a browser, when a direct integration fits better, and how to give a computer-use task a clear finish line.

Start with your situation

What is a useful first browser task?

Test a local page with normal, empty and awkward inputs.

Test a Website with an AI Browser Agent

How does it work with desktop apps?

Set up access, name the window and verify the final state.

AI Computer Use: Practical Desktop Workflows

What about just reading and editing files?

Understand the difference between file tools and graphical control.

How AI File Access Works: Uploads and Local Folders

In the handbook

Use AI to test a website in the browser: a practical acceptance walkthrough

Test real website behavior with an AI browser agent: search, forms, persistence, mobile layouts, errors and evidence of what actually worked.

Test a Website with an AI Browser Agent

AI computer use in practice: apps, files and a clear finish line

Plan a useful AI computer-use task across desktop apps, understand setup and foreground behavior, and verify the resulting file or app state.

AI Computer Use: Practical Desktop Workflows

Connect it to a bigger project

Read the main AI guide | Try the working showcase.

Related Power of AI pages

Keep reading with Start here, everyday uses, the tool guide, the writing workshop, and sources and standards.