Is one of those agents going to jerk off for you too? Who the fuck needs an agent to browse the web for them?
I see someone didn't use Ask Jeeves back then /s
It didn’t make sense then, and it doesn’t make sense now. Keyword searches with an understanding of search syntax was always king.
Keyword searches with an understanding of search syntax was always king.
Isn't that only because of the limitations of the available technology only being able to handle simple strings, though? Conversational computing has been a pipe dream since early sci-fi, where characters would talk to their computers as if they were human; George Jetson never spoke to Rosie in keyword queries.
I feel like keyword search syntax being "king" is more of a symptom, than an intentional choice.
You realise that the reason conversational computing is so popular in science fiction, is because it looks better on camera, right.
This is a very good point - in books/dramas it helps the exposition to have a character you can relay half the plot details to. Similarly in radio dramas, every conversation between characters starts with saying each others names and a full recap of whatever the subject is... But nobody in the real world does or wants to talk like that.
Real people just say "hey, is that thing fixed yet?", not "hello Chris, you remember yesterday we were discussing the il problem with the Thing, and you proposed Cornfootling it; what happened?"
When I want Alexa to turn on the lights, I want to just say "Alexa, turn on the lights", not have a goddamned debate. And when I want to search for whatever the hell Cornfootling is, I just want to type "Cornfootling" and hit search.
It will handle your socials, chats, your agenda, your website, your credit card, your vacations, your photos from the moment of activation to well after death....
All so you can spend more time generating value for your masters and overlords. Huzzah, we've eliminated the pesky scourge of free time!
Also so they can easily predict who is with them and who is against them. Who’s got the hot new ideas so they can beat them to market. Who might challenge the status quo.
They want to push all this shit in browsers so that they can start automatically buying shit once they're selling ads
God, I hadn't thought of that. It's going to be like cancelling a cable subscription but worse.
I loathe (couldn’t figure out a synonym more than that) the word agentic. It sums up everything bad and wrong about AI.
You know what this is launching just in time for?
Tax season.
Cue* 10 million people getting audited because they let their browser file their taxes for them.
lol as if the IRS is going to audit anyone now.
"Let's give everyone an army of spambots! What could go wrong?"
I'm gonna start reading books again.
I don't know if he joking or not but seriously I started reading again regularly like a year ish ago and I think my attention span getting better. Just not spending as much time scrolling bullshit is a big W along with practicing a longer attention span weather it's reading or something else. Go get a terry pratchet book !
These companies are all tone deaf
This actually sounds interesting.
"Find all comments on lemmy that are wrong. Respond explaining how they are wrong."
That would save me a lot of work.
Brilliant! You'll save us all a lot of work. Plus we will finally figure out which version of Linux is the correct one.
I love software that acts without my consent or knowledge while atrophying my brain and wasting tremendous amounts of resources
save us vivaldi you're our only hope
Vivaldi is in big part closed source, so we literally don't know what it does behind the scenes
closed source due to the small team but they're also incredibly open about both the company the advocacy for the internet
closed source due to the small team
There are open source projects created and managed by a single developer. A "small team" is not a reason to be closed source.
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