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A new phase of artificial intelligence is moving beyond chatbots. Developers at GTC Taipei are teaching people to build AI agents that work for them, acting as personal assistants and performing tasks. But how much control are you willing to give them?
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00:00Agentic AI, it's the biggest buzzword in tech right now.
00:03I'm here at one of the world's largest events on AI, Computex, stepping inside a live demo
00:08on OpenClaw.
00:09The people here say you don't need to be a software engineer or a computer programmer,
00:13you just need to start building.
00:15Lobsters, not just a sea creature.
00:18This is also what open source AI agent OpenClaw has adopted as its mascot.
00:23This has led to a trend called raising lobsters, training these AI agents to act as personal
00:30assistants and perform tasks.
00:32So what exactly is OpenClaw?
00:35Unlike traditional chatbots like ChatGPT that wait for you to type a question, AI agents move
00:41on their own.
00:43They work in the background, interacting with different apps on your computer.
00:47They can help you summarize your meetings, send messages, book flights, and more.
00:51You can actually remote access your browser and do tasks for you.
00:57That's important.
00:57Think about booking your flight.
00:59Maybe find a flight from Taiwan to Hong Kong right now.
01:03Maybe you want to go to Hong Kong and the day is from June 6th to 10.
01:10Same thing.
01:11You know, talk to you like a human.
01:12Look at the browser here.
01:14It's actually going to the website, entering all the information you need.
01:20Now I'm not telling you to install OpenClaw.
01:22What I am saying is this is just the beginning.
01:24There will be more agents like this showing up in your work and life very soon.
01:28Some companies are already experimenting with the technology and working to tackle security
01:34concerns over these platforms' access to accounts, credit cards, and personal data.
01:38We've introduced a new open source project called OpenShell as a part of NemoClaw where
01:43you can write policies that are applied to your agent.
01:46So even if the agent has the skill web search or operator on a browser, you might write a
01:52policy that says never click the buy button.
01:56OpenClaw says these safeguards can reduce risks in the short term.
02:00But here's the catch.
02:01To make it a true personal AI assistant, you don't just give it tasks.
02:05You give it access to everything.
02:06So the real question becomes, how much control are you willing to give it?
02:10Ryan Wu and Liliana Matina in Taipei for Taiwan Plus.
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