Humorous Takeover: Google’s AI Agent Tries to Steer Chrome but Misses the Click!

“I Let Google’s ‘Auto Browse’ AI Agent Take Over Chrome. It Didn’t Quite Click”

“As a chronic multitasker, I used to have a tab problem. Too many open at once, causing my laptop to wheeze and my brain to sputter. But Google, ever the helpful giant, is here to help us all cut down. Suggestive auto-browsing, the company announced Tuesday, lets Google Chrome do more of the work for you.” That’s right, folks, Google is descending from the tech heavens with yet another ‘revolutionary’ innovation designed to streamline your internet browsing experience.

Chronic multitaskers, rejoice! Google, in its endless wisdom, has realized the widespread epidemic of tab-tab-itis, a condition characterized by untamed proliferation of multiple browser tabs – all open, all essential, all forgotten. Symptoms include a groaning laptop and reduced cognitive functioning. Well, fear not, for Suggestive auto-browsing is here. Typed directly from the almighty Google Chrome commandments, it pledges to do most of the legwork for you. Because, why would anyone want to exert energy on frivolous tasks like clicking and browsing?

To incrementally add to the growing list of supposedly ‘time-saving’ techniques, Google is teaching Chrome to learn. That’s right, it’s like a digital dog except it neither barks nor fetches. Instead, it learns from your browsing history, and parrots back suggested websites for you. You’ve spent the last six nights reading about ‘how to be productive while working from home?’ Great, have more of that jammed down your virtual throat. But wait, there’s more! It will even propose auto-filling forms on your behalf. Who knew Google was such a philanthropist?

This feature, whilst wrapped up in a pleasant, time-saving package, does raise some eyebrows, however. The tech giant already knows more about us than we do ourselves. Now it wants more control? Google, a well-known, ‘benevolent’ entity, wants to hold your hand (virtually), guide you around the vast expanse of the World Wide Web, and occasionally fill out your name and email on those pesky online forms nobody really likes. Can you hear the dystopian alarm bells ringing?

In the grand ecosystem of Google, where we are mere users for data generating, these ‘features’ seem to blend seamlessly, adding to the company’s vision of an effortless, automated future. The question is, in a hyper-automated world where everything is done for us, where does human discretion and interaction stand?

Oh well, looks like pondering too deep into it could lead to the onslaught of a tab problem. Better to not risk it. After all, there’s an auto-browsing savior to the rescue! A round of applause for our knight in shining Chrome, please.

Read the original article here: https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-auto-browse-hands-on/