Chrome has added Auto Browse
sit down, lean back, and watch the internet scroll by /s
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.
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.
You realise that the reason conversational computing is so popular in science fiction, is because it looks better on camera, right.
I love software that acts without my consent or knowledge while atrophying my brain and wasting tremendous amounts of resources
That does it, I’m never installing Chrome again. I haven’t in years anyway because it’s garbage spyware, but still.
“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 !
I loathe (couldn’t figure out a synonym more than that) the word agentic. It sums up everything bad and wrong about AI.
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!
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.
Who’s got the hot new ideas so they can beat them to market.
Well, there’s an absolutely plausible motive that I hadn’t considered, yet. Fuuuuuuck.
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…
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.
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.
Cue.
If they’re auditing that many of them, there will be a queue, too.
Yeah, I realized that as soon as I posted it.
lol as if the IRS is going to audit anyone now.
They will if you’re not a rich fascist.
they just don’t have enough people. maybe they would target rich democrats, but in general audits are going to go way down out of necessity.
They don’t need people. They have agentic browsers. Lolol
Although one day even the fascists will realize there has to be income, no one’s been collecting from the plebs, so they’ll go back through… getting audited for multiple past years at once isn’t fun, trust and believe. So be as honest as your AI will make you.
Here’s hoping they’ll use the same model as their clients…
