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 has announced a major new update for Claude that means the AI model can take control of a computer to perform actions like moving cursors, typing out text, and browsing the internet. The new feature, called "computer use," is in public beta.

The experimental "computer use" capability points toward AI encroaching further into the realm of human skills.

Anthropic has given Claude the ability to control aspects of a computer, allowing you to interact with a machine through simple text prompts.

Anthropic’s Claude model will eventually perform actions on your computer. In case you don’t know what Anthropic is, this is the Google and Amazon-backed AI company that owns a powerful AI model named Claude.