For decades, human-computer interaction has fundamentally been manual. Even
today, almost all productive work done on the computer necessitates human input
at every step. Autonomous virtual agents represent an exciting step in
automating many of these menial tasks. Virtual agents would empower users with
limited technical proficiency to harness the full possibilities of computer
systems. They could also enable the efficient streamlining of numerous computer
tasks, ranging from calendar management to complex travel bookings, with
minimal human intervention. In this paper, we introduce OmniACT, the
first-of-a-kind dataset and benchmark for assessing an agent's capability to
generate executable programs to accomplish computer tasks. Our scope extends
beyond traditional web automation, covering a diverse range of desktop
applications. The dataset consists of fundamental tasks such as "Play the next
song", as well as longer horizon tasks such as "Send an email to John Doe
mentioning the time and place to meet". Specifically, given a pair of screen
image and a visually-grounded natural language task, the goal is to generate a
script capable of fully executing the task. We run several strong baseline
language model agents on our benchmark. The strongest baseline, GPT-4, performs
the best on our benchmark However, its performance level still reaches only 15%
of the human proficiency in generating executable scripts capable of completing
the task, demonstrating the challenge of our task for conventional web agents.
Our benchmark provides a platform to measure and evaluate the progress of
language model agents in automating computer tasks and motivates future work
towards building multimodal models that bridge large language models and the
visual grounding of computer screens.

通过使用 OmniACT 数据集和基准测试，该研究介绍了评估代理程序生成可执行计算机任务的能力的一种新方法，并展示了当前最强的基线语言模型代理（GPT-4）在该基准测试中表现最好。然而，与人类能力相比，它仅达到 15％，这突显了传统网络代理在生成可完成任务的可执行脚本方面的挑战。该基准测试为衡量和评估语言模型代理在自动化计算机任务方面的进展提供了平台，并激励未来研究努力构建大型语言模型和计算机屏幕的视觉基础的多模态模型。