Comment by firefoxd 4 days ago
I must be using web browsers completely wrong. Like browsing a page isn't a problem for me. I can do it at the speed of my needs.
I'm having a hard time understanding why I will tell gemini to create an account on some website for me or send an email. Those are usually just a tab away. That's why I feel like I'm missing something here.
Maybe I’m a curmudgeon who can’t imagine throwing an elaborate Y2K party because all my friends were alive and threw parties at the real Y2K, but… these all feel extremely contrived.
It’s as if they used AI to generate use cases for their AI tool because they weren’t really sure what it’s for…
Yeah but that's what I'm already using regular AI powered search for.
I suppose by being in the browser it can private and paywalled data, so maybe that's something.
funny you say that, I was literally just booking a flight with air china yesterday and the UX was 10x better than the average wizzair/ryanair experience - a clear, readable UI (with a great table comparison of prices +-3 days from the selected dates), no ads, no random services getting pushed in your face, no booking tabs automatically opening in the background
Basically none of their examples are just "browse a page"? They're multi-step tasks combining data from multiple pages.
Like the first example in the demo carousel (the Y2K party) starts from a photo and a prompt of roughly "buy the props needed for replicating this photo from Etsy". It first analyzes the image in the current tab, identifies a bunch of things to buy, searches for them on Etsy, customizes the orders, adds them to the shopping basket, and then asks for a confirmation to actually send an order.
The second one auto-fills a form with a couple of dozen fields from the data that's in a pdf in another tab. (And in the fiction of a demo, presumably a pdf that's you already had around, not one that you made just for the purposes of using it to auto-fill the form.)
I'm not the target market for this: automating a browser with my credentials is just too scary, but I can certainly see the utility. There's a huge amount of tasks taking a minute or two are not worth creating bespoke automation for but that are also pretty mechanical processes.