These companies are all tone deaf
Its more than tone. They are just deaf dumb and stupid when it comes to what their users are saying.
Chrome has added Auto Browse
sit down, lean back, and watch the internet scroll by /s
I love software that acts without my consent or knowledge while atrophying my brain and wasting tremendous amounts of resources
Is one of those agents going to jerk off for you too? Who the fuck needs an agent to browse the web for them?
It’s trying to solve a problem created by SEO slop. “Find me the cheapest car rental”… That’s actually hard to do now bc SEO grift. Rather than building a more honest system, you get “agents” to do the searching for you
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.
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.
Someone? Everyone!
“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 !
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.
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!
Are you trying to tell me that my computer will remember me better than my kids?
No. The server will simply keep raising your kids after you’re gone and better than you ever could.
If they marketed “Agentic AI” as a way for someone to disappear from the internet entirely and be replaced by AI, I’d finally get onboard.
Basically don’t know how to interpret “autobrowse” in any other way. Bit like “autopilot”, you “should” have the hands on the steering wheel but…
