Comment by jsnell

Comment by jsnell 4 days ago

4 replies

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.

coffeefirst 3 days ago

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…

  • xnx 3 days ago

    Do you ever have a project that requires research and comparison? This can automate that.

    • coffeefirst 3 days ago

      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.

      • xnx 3 days ago

        Exactly. I think I'd use it for hotel price search where you usually don't get the real price until deep in the checkout process.