Anthropic publicly releases AI tool that can take over the user’s mouse cursor (arstechnica.com)
from Powderhorn@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org on 23 Oct 21:34
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Deceptichum@quokk.au on 24 Oct 00:33 next collapse

Oh sick. Now this is the stuff I’m most excited with AI lately. Apples doing an implementation as well.

Now you could say a command such as “close the window” or “click the picture of a puppy”. It’s an amazing accessibility tool. So much better then those eye tracking or screen grid coordinate systems we had prior.

Or issuing a command such as “go to this website, add this to my cart, and check out” sure my Alexa or Home can do it with their predefined stores, but this opens up any site or program that a human can operate. So it’s useful for everyone at the end of the day.

Moonrise2473@feddit.it on 24 Oct 05:36 next collapse

The fact that suddenly it went to watch a leisure website during work… did they use stolen screen recordings from human activity for training? Like if some corporation allowed them to record all the activity of their employees for training

mosscap@slrpnk.net on 24 Oct 06:13 collapse

You mean like Microsoft Recall?

Kissaki@beehaw.org on 24 Oct 09:10 collapse

IIRC Windows has an accessibility feature where the cursor jumps to the primary default action in opening dialogs.

Doing it screenshot based seems inefficient if y du could iterate through windows and controls.

flashgnash@lemm.ee on 24 Oct 15:06 collapse

Makes it work universally, even if the gui isn’t made with a standard toolkit

Also it’s ai they don’t care about efficiency

Toribor@corndog.social on 25 Oct 03:07 collapse

Yeah this is one of those things where accessibility settings can probably get you 90% there but screenshots and machine learning can probably close the gap somewhat reliably (even if it’s much less efficient).