Google plans AI browser assistant "Jarvis" to automate web tasks
the-decoder.com
Google is developing an AI system called "Project Jarvis" that can independently control Chrome and perform common web tasks, according to a report from The Information.
  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    “The AI assistant will be able to handle everyday tasks like searching the web, making purchases, and booking flights without user intervention.”

    If they wouldn’t have turned their search engine into a piece of dog shit, I wouldn’t need an AI to do four web searches and collate them to find what the hell I’m looking for.

    I do not want automation around making purchases, especially not an AI from a marketing company. Jarvis what’s the best dinglebopper I can buy on the web? Query1: which manufacturer is paid us the most money, Query2: which web searches say that that manufacturer has the best product?

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      booking flights without user intervention.”

      “I’m flying from New York to Chicago. Why the hell do I have a 18 hour layover in Buffalo NY then a 8 hour layover in Peoria IL?! Who booked this damn flight?!”

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    38·
    2 days ago

    Thanks but no thanks. I wish to be in the driver’s seat. Not a passenger. The user. Not the used. I give you instructions. I make the decisions. You will follow. You are merely a tool.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    2 days ago

    I’m starting to feel like this whole AI craze that big tech companies are forcing onto others is just a dick measuring contest that none of them have the balls to back out of even though they all know it’s a stalemate.

    • Eggyhead@fedia.io
      8·
      2 days ago

      They’re throwing it everywhere faster than they can figure out what it’s actually good for.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    You mean like that one that can use a command line and broke the guy’s PC? Yeah, I don’t want Google booking a half dozen flights to the wrong airports.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    I sure could use an AI that detects and blocks things like AI generated articles and sponsored search results as long as it’s open source and runs locally.

    • mortimer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      2 days ago

      Correct. I’ve disabled and replaced every Google app on my phone with a free open souce version. Now what I need to do is figure out how to shutdown and replace Google Play Services which screams at me every time it’s disabled. Bloody thing updates weekly without the slightest change log. Fuck knows what it’s doing.

  • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    It’s always the cool fictional AI companions that become irl slop because of big tech, Cortana for instance…

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    If it can scroll Lemmy for me, that would be great! But it would have to run in Firefox, as I’m not touching Chrome.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    “Jarvis, bring up youtube and show me a video how to cook the perfect brisket, and as soon as the ads start mute the volume and attempt to hit the ‘skip ad’ button as soon as it appears, resume volume when the cooking content returns”

  • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    You do need an advanced tool to navigate the web now. It takes a lot of effort to filter trash from searches thanks to Google making every result into slop listicle. And even worse now they are AI slop listicles.