UFO: A UI-Focused Agent for Windows OS Interaction

TL;DR

UFO is a novel AI agent that uses GPT-Vision to understand and interact with Windows applications through GUIs, automating complex tasks via natural language commands with high effectiveness.

Contribution

UFO introduces the first UI agent tailored for Windows OS, employing a dual-agent framework for GUI analysis and control, enabling fully automated task execution.

Findings

Successfully tested across 9 Windows applications

Outperforms existing methods in task completion effectiveness

Enables natural language-driven automation of GUI tasks

Abstract

We introduce UFO, an innovative UI-Focused agent to fulfill user requests tailored to applications on Windows OS, harnessing the capabilities of GPT-Vision. UFO employs a dual-agent framework to meticulously observe and analyze the graphical user interface (GUI) and control information of Windows applications. This enables the agent to seamlessly navigate and operate within individual applications and across them to fulfill user requests, even when spanning multiple applications. The framework incorporates a control interaction module, facilitating action grounding without human intervention and enabling fully automated execution. Consequently, UFO transforms arduous and time-consuming processes into simple tasks achievable solely through natural language commands. We conducted testing of UFO across 9 popular Windows applications, encompassing a variety of scenarios reflective of users' daily usage. The results, derived from both quantitative metrics and real-case studies, underscore the superior effectiveness of UFO in fulfilling user requests. To the best of our knowledge, UFO stands as the first UI agent specifically tailored for task completion within the Windows OS environment. The open-source code for UFO is available on https://github.com/microsoft/UFO.