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Google plans AI browser assistant "Jarvis" to automate web tasks. (the-decoder.com)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"The AI assistant will be able to handle everyday tasks like searching the web, making purchases, and booking flights without user intervention."

If they wouldn't have turned their search engine into a piece of dog shit, I wouldn't need an AI to do four web searches and collate them to find what the hell I'm looking for.

I do not want automation around making purchases, especially not an AI from a marketing company. Jarvis what's the best dinglebopper I can buy on the web? Query1: which manufacturer is paid us the most money, Query2: which web searches say that that manufacturer has the best product?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

booking flights without user intervention.”

"I'm flying from New York to Chicago. Why the hell do I have a 18 hour layover in Buffalo NY then a 8 hour layover in Peoria IL?! Who booked this damn flight?!"

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thanks but no thanks. I wish to be in the driver’s seat. Not a passenger. The user. Not the used. I give you instructions. I make the decisions. You will follow. You are merely a tool.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm starting to feel like this whole AI craze that big tech companies are forcing onto others is just a dick measuring contest that none of them have the balls to back out of even though they all know it's a stalemate.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

They’re throwing it everywhere faster than they can figure out what it’s actually good for.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can it solve captchas for me?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Jarvis, bring up youtube and show me a video how to cook the perfect brisket, and as soon as the ads start mute the volume and attempt to hit the 'skip ad' button as soon as it appears, resume volume when the cooking content returns"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

but sir, that ad content has been trained on your every waking question, query and keystroke, it knows you and may hold usefu-

Not now, Jarvis.

We have a brisket to cook.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

You mean like that one that can use a command line and broke the guy's PC? Yeah, I don't want Google booking a half dozen flights to the wrong airports.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

AI this and AI that. Yawn! All of it is a crock of over-hyped shit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Thanks, Google, I hate it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I sure could use an AI that detects and blocks things like AI generated articles and sponsored search results as long as it's open source and runs locally.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I do not give a single fecal thought.

If it says "Google", never touching it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Correct. I've disabled and replaced every Google app on my phone with a free open souce version. Now what I need to do is figure out how to shutdown and replace Google Play Services which screams at me every time it's disabled. Bloody thing updates weekly without the slightest change log. Fuck knows what it's doing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pixel phone, and install GrapheneOS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I've been thinking about doing just that for my next phone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Clippy 2024!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You do need an advanced tool to navigate the web now. It takes a lot of effort to filter trash from searches thanks to Google making every result into slop listicle. And even worse now they are AI slop listicles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you tried uBlacklist and SearXNG?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been meaning to try SearXNG, actually, thank you for the reminder. Is there a good instance you'd recommend to check it out? Otherwise I'll just test it on one of the ones linked from their repo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I personally like baresearch.org and SearXNG.site and switch hqcobajd forth if either gets temporarily suspended for making too many requests. I also saw a tutorial on YT on how to set up your own instance if you're not on mobile. I do highly recommend still using ublacklist alongside SearXNG, since that helps block all the SEO spam and listicles.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's always the cool fictional AI companions that become irl slop because of big tech, Cortana for instance...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

If it can scroll Lemmy for me, that would be great! But it would have to run in Firefox, as I'm not touching Chrome.