Hello all,
Recently when I was complaining about my frustration with some accessibility problems on a particular website I said to my friend that surely with all the AI possibilities arising there must be a tool we could use to perform tasks on websites on our behalf. He said he thought there was such a tool on Mac, but he didn’t know what it was and he’s not a Mac user himself. Has anyone got any ideas about what he might be referring to?
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AI user agents
what you’re thinking of is called an AI user agent. chatGPT just released one this week. and it’s starting to become more and more of a thing across the Internet/phones/computers/etc. It’s gonna take a year or two before it’s fully matriculated. But you are able to tell the AI assistant what you’re wanting and it’ll do it for you. this includes filling out forms and other tasks. I encourage you to Google search for it.
Not yet... Not quite...
Perplexity has also released one, invite only.
both the Chat GPT and Perplexity offerings are still very buggy, not completing tasks even if they say they have. Like anything, these will improve with more use when the AI (still hate using that term, it's machine learning and LLM), will 'learn' what it can and can't do.
It's certainly coming though and, I think, will be a game changer (that term again), for us. Being able to tell an AI to go buy me Stephen King's latest book from audible, then order me some nappies... Will be ace. I think there is a degree of trust there too though. Not quite sure what user interaction is required, IE, a final big red button to hit before activation... Even then, there will be issues. Who knows.
TypeAhead
Is this still going? I used it a couple of times. I remember one website I couldn't find the search box anywhere and asked TypeAhead to find the product I was asking which it did pretty well.
[Edit] https://typeahead.ai