I got the new autonomous agents from anthropic up and running in a demo so you didn’t have to.

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1. 0:00Have you heard of the new anthropic computer use demo where it can use your computer? It's crazy. I got it up and
2. 0:07running and I'll tell you about it. This is Kyle Shannon with the AI learning lab. Uh let me show you a little bit
3. 0:12about what's going on. Okay, so I have the computer use demo up and running. So this is the little chat window or chat
4. 0:20yeah chat uh history. And then over here is a browser. So, I'm running a virtual environment, which I'll talk about in a
5. 0:29second, and then I'll tell you what it did in a second. But first, how do you get this thing running? It's It's a pain
6. 0:36in the ass. And so, if you don't feel like geeking out, just you can just watch I'll show at the end of this what
7. 0:42it actually did, a demo that I did for myself just to see if it would work. And it did. So, that's cool. Um, what you
8. 0:50have to do or what I Here's what I what I did. What I did, I found a YouTube video. Uh there's a bunch of them out
9. 0:57there. Just find someone who doesn't annoy you. Um and then what you have to do is you have to download this app
10. 1:03called Docker. And what Docker does is it creates a virtual computer inside your computer so that you don't run this
11. 1:11thing and like inadvertently erase your hard drive or something stupid like that. So, so Docker allows you to have
12. 1:20like a fake computer that runs a browser and it's got a spreadsheet program in it and things like that. Um, you have to do
13. 1:27some configuration. So, you have to have a claude or an anthropic API key. So, you have to have a developer account.
14. 1:35So, if you go to console.anthropic.com, that's the developer thing. That's where you get an API key. Give them a credit
15. 1:42card so you know you can run the API. Um, and then basically you need to get this thing running in your terminal on a
16. 1:52Mac and a similar a console on a PC I think. Um, basically you get Docker running in there and you go to there's a GitHub repository
17. 2:02for for um for the computer use demo. So just search for GitHub anthropic computer use demo and then there's a
18. 2:12little chunk of code for Docker and you basically just paste that in your console and hit run. Um for Docker you
19. 2:20do have to have your account connected or it won't work. It'll look like it's working but it won't work. That took me
20. 2:26a while to figure out. The whole thing probably took me an hour because I'm totally clueless. If you kind of know
21. 2:32what's going on with Docker and Terminal and stuff like that, it's probably 1015 minutes. So, it's not that big a deal.
22. 2:39But let me show you what it actually did prompt that I gave it and then what it did. And it's pretty cool. Okay. So, the
23. 2:48first test I ran, I just had it ask uh who the CEO of StoryVine was. And it so what it first does is it has a uh it
24. 2:58takes a screenshot of the computer window the virtual computer window. So it initially did not have a browser
25. 3:05running. It then launched Firefox. It then went out and it searched for uh Storyine CEO and Google just gave it to
26. 3:13it. So it was really quick. So then what I asked it and this was this was a bit tougher. I said I like Martin Ston. find
27. 3:20me music in Denver this weekend. Um, in a similar style and so it went to the browser, it screwed something up and got
28. 3:28an error. Um, but it saw that it took the screenshot and then it started typing in things about Martin Ston or or
29. 3:37a certain kind of music and then it found some things in Denver and then it it said, "I found a few events this
30. 3:46weekend that might appeal to a Martin Ston fan. Here's what I found. Geobbard zero's power of music. And then it said,
31. 3:53"Let me check bands in town for more options." So then it went back and just started, you know, searching bands in
32. 3:59town. And then at the very end, it gave me this really nice write up. After searching through various venues, here's
33. 4:06the two things. Earlier in my search, I noticed Ellis Paul is performing. Um, Ellis Paula is actually a great match
34. 4:15for Martin Sexton fans as he's also from Boston folk scene and shares a similar folk rock storytelling qualities and
35. 4:22strong vocals. So, it understood who Martin Sexton was and it just did all this stuff, you know, just taking
36. 4:29screenshots and prompting itself to go solve everything. So, if you want to geek out, it's not that big a deal. Like
37. 4:37when I tried to set up stable diffusion when I first got started, I failed nine times. This thing I only failed like
38. 4:43three times. So So it's it's it's not that tough to set up, but you definitely have to geek out a little bit.
39. 4:50If you don't feel like geeking out, there's probably stuff coming probably within a month where all of this will
40. 4:57just be built into like chat GPT or clawed where you don't have to do all this programming [ __ ] to get it to work.
41. 5:03But if you want a taste of the future, if you want a taste of what agentic behavior is, autonomous agents taking
42. 5:10action our on our behalf, it's really fascinating to watch this thing work. I did this was a really simple example.
43. 5:17So, it didn't have a lot of, you know, chance to fail. So, I've seen a lot of people try to get this to work. It
44. 5:22absolutely fails. But this is the future, people. Agents are the next big thing. They're here and they're going to
45. 5:29get much better really soon. So hold on to your butts.