ChatGPT Can Now Book Restaurants and Events on Its Own

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OpenAI on Thursday said that it is releasing a digital assistant that can autonomously complete online searches and purchases for travel, events, restaurants, and more. 

Want to find a hotel for your next trip or make a restaurant reservation? Tell the ChatGPT chatbot what you want and it will pull together options and complete a booking on your behalf (after confirming with you first). It's a big leap forward with a lot of implications for the travel industry.

The new tool, called Operator, is the first version of the digital assistant that travel leaders have been envisioning since ChatGPT was first released. Startup competitor Anthropic was the first AI company to announce this type of tool with a demo in October.

Operator is live at operator.chatgpt.com⁠. 

It works by taking control of a remote browser shown within the Operator window, and completing tasks as a human would. Because it’s connected to a remote browser, the user can make other prompts or do other computer tasks while Operator is working. Operator can complete tasks in several categories listed on the homepage, including Travel and Dining & Events.

The company said it has partnered with a number of third-party companies to make sure Operator can access data from those websites. In travel, they include: Booking.com, Tripadvisor, Priceline, Hipcamp, Uber, StubHub,