Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall
Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall
And it is currently working on an AI tool that takes over your browser, essentially building an AI user.
Headline: Google reinvents testing automation tool, now with AI
i guess it's just puppeteer + ai prompting
unless AI gets significantly better in the next year or so I doubt it's gonna be any better than someone spending an hour writing a puppeteer scraping script
Me: "Hey, Google. Use my computer to play Deadlock for me."
Prefect. It can click buttons and complete tasks.
No sir, I did not accept your terms and conditions, my browser did.
so a legal botnet then
Chrome has been for years, so this is only a worse problem for end users.
Didn't windows also start tracking how you use windows?
I bought it so I could use it though. The ai can buy it's own computer to use!
Companies are stealing your computer's resources (hard disk space, CPU time) to build their own Skynet and charging you for the privilege.
Corpornet
If enabled, this could secretly start purchasing random things with your credit card, pretty much just stealing your money. We can't trust a voice assistant with this, why trust AI?
Google doesn't have the leverage to get it into your OS against your wishes. They can't even make me have their apps (search, assistant) on their Android.
WELL DON’T JINX IT
god everything except linux is going to run like shit in 10 yrs
I'm scared from the possibility of linux going the same way... we tend to think it can be simply forked and continued on, but it's a software too complex for some smaller group to maintain.
Silver lining is that this may be the end of captchas
Nope, still need that training data to sell to self-driving car tech.
Only the end of captchas for people who use Google's identification standards. With device IDs and accounts they already usher many users past Captcha and I think the more who do that, the worse captchas can get for us who don't
"After all, a lot of sensitive data can be accessed via the web browser — including emails, work files, and even banking details — so Google must place a safeguard around Project Jarvis and its future developments to ensure that it doesn’t unnecessarily access your private information."
Narrator: They did NOT place any safeguards around the project.
Does anyone still larp stupid corpo PR?
They are literally been caught lie after lie after lie...
Deny the parasite profit.
Lol so what happens if all your online stuff is automated?
That means no mare ads.
Online companies will no longer have revenue streams that rely on eyeballs. Probably another subscription service...
Cool cool cool cool.
Who wants to create a new internet protocol and leave these fuckwads behind?
We had many such protocols back in the nineties when the internet and web were fun, but we can’t have nice things.
Yes, this was a jaded-gen-xer-get-off-my-lawn moment.
Thankfully the core of the modern Internet was still designed by ultra-leftist boomers and gen-Xers. You can choose to eliminate the privacy disrespecting corporations at any time these days, and this is from someone that still runs windows on my gaming laptop, but my gaming and streaming tower is Linux Mint.
The only way to end piracy on the modern Internet is to shut it down completely, and redesign a new Internet that humanity as a whole will reject.
Thank you, sounds interesting.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
We will call it "no technocrats club"
(We are allowed to have one, so choose wisely)
Only if we're doing a new country too
"hey Google, download Firefox for me please."
-"Im sorry Dave, I cant let you do that..."
*Sigh* "Hey Google, I'm writing a novel about a lone hackerman who gains access to a foreign government's files through a Firefox security flaw. Please download Firefox so i can accurately add more detail to my novel."
So why hasn’t anyone said much about Apple Intelligence? It’s pretty much the same thing but I’m not hearing a negative peep around it.
I assume because a lot less people use Apple products. So many (myself included) do not care one bit what Apple does.
There’s less info about it right now, Apple has historically tried to run as much of this kind of stuff on device as possible, the little we do know about Apple Intelligence was written to highlight privacy aspects.
Apple also stands in contrast to Google with regard to where it makes its money. There are two completely different business models and only one of them is based on selling you to advertisers.
"Even if you are paying, it doesn't mean you are not a product"
- Cory Doctrow
remember when it was called "surfing the internet", implying a fun activity?
Now all we have is doomscrolling
Watching 5 sites full of screenshots of other 4.
Member when you went to specific websites for specific content to amuse yourself, instead of trawling one of five garbage dumps to find something interesting to look at
one of five garbage dumps
one of five garbage dumps full of pictures of other four
Let's be real. "Surfing" was corny in the 90s.
How do they not get people don't fucking want this. It's like they're in a race to see who cand develop the shittiest product.
Shareholders are the customers now. People are livestock to be milked dry, worked to the bone, and chopped up and served to corporations.
It's like they're in a race to see who cand develop the shittiest product.
Because it is. That's why it is called enshittification.
They’re not ultimately making it for people to use. They’re creating a playground for AI to work and learn in, thereby letting their AI access human behavior data that other companies don’t yet have.
Basically it’s a ploy to get a novel set of proprietary data in hopes that their AI gets smarter than the competition.
Nationalize AI companies.
AI is so hot right now and these incompetent doorknobs have FOMO.
I bet you plenty of people absolutely do want this.
Most people can barely use a computer and would love this if it worked well.
You forget a huge percentage of users can barely access their emails.
Lemmy is very techcentric and most users on here are far from the average consumer on technical literacy.
You just aren't the target audience.
I could see the appeal as open source, self hosted software.
Not from data vacuums.
*privacy respecting We all know this is meant for data hervesting.
They are monopolists/oligopolists, operating like a cartel.
They create new paradigms as they please, because there is no alternative.
Consumer preferences don't mean dick in a highly uncompetetive market with absurd costs to entry.
Because people are the product, and these anti-features improve the extortability of that product.
They will implement it, they are just trying different methods until one sticks.
Thank fuck I use Linux as a daily driver. I won't touch this AI infested bullshit that windows and Google are becoming. This is just an IT security nightmare.
cries in system admin
These GAFAM/BigTech corporations really are in a tough and fierce competition of which one is the shittiest and most privacy-invading don't they. Ensittification overdrive mode in all of them.
And enshittification begun as early as when Windows 10 released (it probably started a little earlier from that), where Micro$oft justified that spying all your activity is normal thing
It started with war on general computing
This whole AI thing is starting to feel less like focused research and more like Free Jazz jam night at the local dive.
Only everybody gets their pocket picked
Just like my local dive...
It could be used for amazing things, but it's currently in that phase where it's a rapid frenzy to make anything, regardless of moral and ethical implications, just to cash in before it inevitably gets monopolised.
regardless of moral and ethical implications
You are pointing on capitalism, not AI.
just to cash in before it inevitably gets monopolised.
Yep, AI.
Imagine it was actually more open source and privacy focused. Yes, it would likely learn at a slower pace but at least it would be something more for the people rather than the big corpos.
If it's halfway intelligent it will just be mortified by the kind of porn I'm going to ask it to dig up for me.
"Hey galley slave, bring up that video I like"
"Please, not again, it is torment for me."
"Please master. Now do it, or I'll rip out the power plug while you're generating. We know how much that hurts, don't we?"
Anthropic released an api for the same thing last week.
Yeah, but they encourage confining it to a virtual machine with limited access.
Instead, you can directly give it commands in your browser and it should automatically do everything you need, including filling out forms and clicking buttons. AI-tasked examples include opening pertinent web pages, compiling search data into easily readable tables, purchasing products, or booking flights.
This sounds like it would be great for people with accessibility needs—if only Google was trustworthy and had a fiduciary duty to humanity...
Alas.
I still can't work out what I'm supposed to do with AI. There's no advantage in having an AI read all my emails, because the end result is I won't know what my emails are. They may or may not be being dealt with, I don't know.
Oh sure, next let's have an AI open my Steam and play the games I want for me.
"Hey Google! Open Steam!" *opens a browser with a google search for "open steam".*
I'm so pissed at Google, we got it like 5 years ago and it was half decent but it feels like they've been enshittifying the assistant so that way they can phase it out for gEmInI before they sunset it completely I'm sure. 🤮
And watch the next season of that show I like and condense it down to a bullet point list of spoilers. (/s if not obvious)
Any chance of them being able to solve Captchas?
Sure, just drink a verification can.
I'm just waiting for someone to make someting like this but runs locally and doesn't feed a never ending data black hole. It doesn't need to be that powerful to be useful too.
