This has been true since the very beginning of the information age, before the internet was a thing. The dream was to have "user agents", little AIs that would

This has been true since the very beginning of the information age, before the internet was a thing. The dream was to have "user agents", little AIs that would navigate and take action on our behalf. The BBC released this "Hyperland" video with Douglas Adams and Tom Baker in 1990. https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdams-Hyperland https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdams-Hyperland