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AI Agent Glossary

Computer use

An agent operating a real GUI — screenshots in, mouse and keyboard actions out.

Computer-use agents perceive the screen (pixels and/or accessibility tree) and act through clicks, typing and scrolling, so they can drive any application without an API. OSWorld is the reference benchmark: 369 real tasks across Ubuntu, Windows and macOS. Best-agent success went from 12.2% at launch (2024) to about 66% in 2025 against a human baseline of 72.4%.

Source: OSWorld — Xie et al., 2024 (arXiv:2404.07972)

See the numbers behind this term: AI Agent Statistics 2026.