You can't solve computer use by ignoring the interface
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You can't solve computer use by ignoring the interface
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Re: You can't solve computer use by ignoring the interface
#2that's what a lot of 'a.i' companies miss - unless you've formerly QA devs deployed as Forward Automation Engineers - writing scripts to automate most tasks done by humans in a service economy - by the time the a.i bubble busts it will all about the promise about a.i to transform the economy while it was near achieved.
browser automation, RPA etc can bring us closer to agentic workflows since most software doesn't provide an API.
Re: You can't solve computer use by ignoring the interface
#3that's what a lot of 'a.i' companies miss - unless you've formerly QA devs deployed as Forward Automation Engineers - writing scripts to automate most tasks done by humans in a service economy - by the time the a.i bubble busts it will all about the promise about a.i to transform the economy while it was near achieved. browser automation, RPA etc can bring us closer to agentic workflows since most software doesn't pr…
Agreed and a lot of companies seem to have their head in the sand, just hoping AI agents will magic their way through the legacy
But I don't think RPA is the way. Or at least, not in the current state. I think AI agents with proper computer use are what RPA should be. Usual RPA is too brittle and maintaining it often requires more work than just doing the work
Re: You can't solve computer use by ignoring the interface
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#5The little pencil effect is a nice touch.
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#6You lost me at the annoying trail on mouse movement.
You advocate for good UI and immediately make some crap that makes it hard to read/use your site. It's kind of ironic.
Please stop messing with: selection, mouse cursor, copy/paste, etc.
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#7Looking how much agents like to use and push to have functional a11y trees, we may accidentally solve accessibility as well
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#8Meta: I like that the first comments are not about the model at all but the website's mouse trail. One is in favor and one is against. Sums up society pretty well hahaha.
On the model. Really cool that it can act every 70ms. That's more than 10x faster than TTFT in most inference APIs. It HAS to be a local model. No idea which family or which one it is or what hardware it runs in. These would be nice details to tease!
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#9We have 2 paths here:
- either evolve our UI systems for computers and let them operate efficiently, i.e. converting everything to API calls . Frontier labs are pushing for this, starting with the Chrome plugin that Claude Cowork mandates.
- or make AI systems use the screen like humans do - what the article is arguing for
Both of these paths are possible. One of them is much more efficient than the other in the long term. Another one may be inevitable.
Re: You can't solve computer use by ignoring the interface
#10every decade someone rediscovers that the bottleneck was never the model, it was the mouse. we built APIs to avoid this exact problem and then asked the AI to ignore them and click buttons like an intern