Google reportedly developing an AI agent that can control your browser Google is reportedly looking to sidestep the complexity of AI-driven automation by letting its multimodal large language models (LLMs) take control of your browser. According to a recent report published by The Information, citing several unnamed sources, "Project Jarvis" could be available in preview as early as December and …
Using software is to put it to its intended purpose. Leveraging is to put it to your purpose.
In the case of legitimate software use this is generally the same thing; when I use Microsoft Excel to make a spreadsheet, I am using it for its intended purpose and it is also my purpose to do so. But if Microsoft start using Microsoft Excel to gather data on what I'm making spreadsheets of, I would be using Excel to make the spreadsheet and they would be leveraging it to harvest data.
Soooo let me get this straight --
Going to the chat-bots for your script code to run automated attacks using the browser was just too much.
Now, the browser will just do it for you in real-time and delete the middleman...
Human greed and laziness (the whole heart of AI) will be the end of us all.
Hmm, letting the bugger trundle off and do research might be useful, particularly in fields like osint, where you might need to cross reference loads of sources.
But letting it buy things? No. Well, maybe, if it had access to a separate account with strictly limited funds. But with my primary current account? Not bloody likely! I could see the thing reading some fad diet site and spending every last penny on salads and similarly unhealthy stuff, and me with no remaining cash to buy bacon or pizza. Nightmare.
Since Google already have a somewhat popular browser, I guess it makes sense to leverage... Erm, use that, as long as we can turn it off. We likely won't be able to, though:(
Perhaps better than searching for "reverse cow girl" then getting Stoney Burke and fully clad women in a rodeo clown act.
Google is really only channeling a long history of tabloid page 3 girls.
Puzzling in as much as probably marginally more females use google than males to locate information but then women did read tabloid newspapers too.
Pretty obvious what goes through (what passes for) the male brain when presented with an image of an attractive, scantily attired woman but it is beyond me how the female brain processes such images given their prevalence.*
One of life's remaining mysterious I suppose.
* images not female brains.
looking for porn when I ask for egg recipes,
When you a step back (well... a good few steps) and think what pron is - in a way, a parody of and how "eggs" come into the whole activity you might see a how a poor naive large language model might be confused.
Just don't ask how to bake a bun in the oven - you will have thermometers, elements of candy making (thread stage), a diary and graph paper. :)
"alexa, how do you spell 'hor d'oeuvre."
Next time try "horse's doovers." ;)
Of course Alexa did get it right: o-r-d-e-r-s is how she spells it.
Perhaps "Alexa, how is the French culinary phrase 'hors d'œuvre' spelt when used in English instead of appetizer?"
Although talking to machines is the thin end of the wedge and then you are on the slippery slope to skating on thin ice.
Why would it spend your money on stuff that must then be delivered when it can just click on ads for things where nothing needs to be delivered, like subscriptions the AI software at a thousand a minute for access? Sorry sir, no refunds for rendered services you approved the purchase of by plugging your computer in this morning.
Doesn't need to buy something, just click on the ads. More money for Google from those advertisers, and if it doing this click fraud silently while you're sleeping you'll never find out.
Google doesn't even have to be evil to make that happen, just program the AI to first "do what the user wants" and second "do what is best for Google". When the user doesn't want anything it is left to its own devices to figure out what is best for Google!
If there's one thing you can count on in a new Google app, it's serious exploits. Criminals will exploit it to send spam, steal bank accounts, and hijack computers. Kids will ask it to do something illegal on a parent's computer. Drunks will accidentally buy a $60000 vacation when they were just dreaming of what it would be like. And Google will "accidentally" collect far more personal information than they claim they do.
As long as I can leave it 100% disabled, dysfunctional, and hopefully completely removed from my "user experience."
Otherwise it is time to change browsers.
Screw this "AI" LLM nonsense to hell. It is NOT intelligent in the least, and I will not allow it to screw up my work, my systems, or my personal life to satisfy the dreams of some marketing "geniuses" without enough neurons to form a connection!
"Mom, why is there a box of handguns with their serial numbers filed off sitting on our porch?"
"Your father and some of our neighbours are going to have a friendly chat with that Mr Google later tonight."
(If only! But they are more likely off to the Capitol (v2.) Or they screw up and off Mr Magoo.)
Gotta love how touting an "AI helper", without fail, has the exact same effect on all vaguely intelligent life as if you squeezed off an SBD in a packed elevator and let the doors close as you flee.
Thus, my plan to bring world peace utlizing AI:
1. Ban AI
2. Dispossess all lawyers
3. ???
4. World peace
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