Abstract

From 2024 to today, ChatGPT has evolved from a conversational assistant into a family of increasingly agentic systems that can reason, act, and operate across tools and environments. This talk traces that arc at a high level, introducing ChatGPT Agent as the shift toward goal-directed, multi-step autonomy; Operator as the bridge between language models and real-world interfaces, workflows, and actions; and CUA as the emerging foundation for computer-use and environment-level interaction.

About the Speaker

Eugenio Panero is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI on the ChatGPT Agent. He joined OpenAI in 2024 as a product/infra engineer. Prior to OpenAI, he was a Staff Software Engineer at Bolt, and a Senior Software Engineer at Dropbox, where he served as Tech Lead. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly a decade at Electronic Arts, as part of the gameplay engineering team, building features for The Sims 4 and The Sims 3. He graduated from Florida Tech in 2008 with a BS in Computer Science and a minor in Applied Mathematics.