{"id":30115,"date":"2023-11-13T15:33:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T20:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=30115"},"modified":"2023-11-13T15:33:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T20:33:32","slug":"this-new-breed-of-ai-assistant-wants-to-do-your-boring-office-chores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30115","title":{"rendered":"This New Breed of AI Assistant Wants to Do Your Boring Office Chores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/65273cd087136b01c1e37379\/16:9\/w_800%2Ch_450%2Cc_limit\/undefined\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"105\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">An experimental AI helper attempts to operate a web browser in the same way a human does to take on office admin like processing invoices or screening job applicants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/this-new-breed-of-ai-assistant-wants-to-do-your-boring-office-chores\/\">This New Breed of AI Assistant Wants to Do Your Boring Office Chores<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>i think these guys are thinking like I am about simple things like getting contact info from a webpage to my contacts, or <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/appointm\" target=\"_blank\">seeing a chat about meeting for coffee and have it suggest\/add the event deets in my calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Instead of being limited to using online services that provide APIs to make them accessible to software, ACT-2 attempts to use a computer more like a human\u2014<strong><em>by making sense of the pixels on a display and then taking action to control a browser and online services.<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experimental AI helper attempts to operate a web browser in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[91,1017,140,69],"class_list":["post-30115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-ai","tag-ml","tag-paul","tag-softwaredev","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30117,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30115\/revisions\/30117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}