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Show HN: Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine
- binary132 2y agokinda want to run this in a vm just to see how fast it bricks it
- manamorphic 2y agoran it in a Windows Sandbox ... doesn't work. messes up the coordinates, can't click on anything
- fullstackchris 2y agoI'm experiencing the same on mac. It's claiming that it's clicking and doing stuff, but it's not. (yes I gave it the necessary permissions)
- ashepp 2y agoI wonder if it's expecting a default resolution (like for a Mac Book pro?). I'm seeing the same issue of the coordinates not working on Win11 for a 3840x2160 display.
- nixosbestos 2y agoMaybe it scales the image before recognition and forgets to scale back up the projected coordinates for actions?
- coreyh14444 2y agoThat was fast.
- amusingimpala75 2y agoAnd by fast we mean 2+ minutes to go to a link and fill in four fields
- andrethegiant 2y agoI think OP was referring to how fast someone built something with Anthropic's new Computer Use product, as it was announced yesterday
- tacone 2y ago> Claude really likes Firefox. It will use other browsers if it absolutely has to, but will behave so much better if you just install Firefox and let it go to its happy place. Good boy!
- Oras 2y agoThere might be a reason. I played around with Playwright before and once you run chromium for few times, it will get blocked and you start seeing captcha. Never happened when I tried Firefox
- cynicalsecurity 2y ago[flagged]
- ned99 2y agoLike all the apps on your phone
- deathmonger5000 2y agoCan you point out where telemetry or other spying can be found in this codebase?
- voxic11 2y agoIt does appear to periodically take screenshots and uploads them to a Anthropic controlled api.
- gunalx 2y agoWhy the .exe name when it seems to be intended as a multiplatform support with macOS as main?
- sdflhasjd 2y agoI would guess because .exe has nostalgia and meme qualities .app does not.
- heraldgeezer 2y ago[flagged]
- jlpom 2y agoI'm 27 and grew up with both OS X and XP.
- trashburger 2y agoI think it's just a meme.
- deciduously 2y agoNot without precedent, OCaml also uses this extension for executable on all platforms. Probably boils down to taste, but I think this name is clear and concise, my favorite qualities in a name.
- dylan604 2y agoGet Info and uncheck the "Hide Extension" flag. Agent.exe.app /s I have no idea if it's true, but mosdef possible
- rfoo 2y agoOtherwise how could we join the <x>.cpp fancy gang? We'd have to name the project "agent.js" which is super boring! /s
- waffletower 2y ago.exe is better because it is scarier and evokes visions of computer viruses. .app is too benign.
- xnx 2y agoAlas, setup is not as simple as downloading and running "agent.exe".
- lovich 2y agoPeople are letting AI agents have purchasing power? No way some bad automation causes your bank account to get drained
- renewiltord 2y agoSure, just put it in a VM with a constrained virtual card. Same as giving an EA you hired off Craigslist access to your computer.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoIn other words, just as unwise as giving an EA off Craigslist access to my computer.
- pc86 2y agoYou can sue an EA. EAs can go to prison. Regardless, not once in my life have I ever thought "man it's way too time consuming and onerous for me to spend my money. I wish there was a way for me to spend my money faster and with less oversight."
- renewiltord 2y agoI suppose it's not for you, then. That's a thought I've had often. Sometimes there's too much friction between me and the opportunity to spend some money. Like, right now, I want to buy an e-bike under $500, any Chinese brand will do. And I want it to look at Reddit and stuff to see what people have said etc. etc. But I'm not going to do it because it takes too long. If machine can do it, fine by me.
- tomjen3 2y agoClaud go find Christmas gifts for my family. Look through our group chat for ideas. List them here and if I approve find and order them to delivery to my house. Total budget is 400 dollars.
- lovich 2y ago> Same as giving an EA you hired off Craigslist access to your computer. Also probably a bad idea for 99+% of people
- tcdent 2y agoNot a doomer, but like, don't run this on your primary machine.
- cloudking 2y agoWe know what you did here.. "Browser Hacker News and leave doomer comments on any posts related to AI"
- thih9 2y agoNot with this attitude. Given time I suspect that strange actions made by AI agents will become the new “ducking” autocorrect.
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- smsm42 2y ago"No, I didn't post my drunk photos all over social media last night, it's the that AI made them up and posted them!"
- gdhkgdhkvff 2y agoI can see it now. Finishing up a feature on a side project at 1am. Think “oh I know, I’ll have Computer Use run some regression tests on it.” Run computer Use and walk away to get a drink. While you’re gone Computer Use opens a browser and goes to Facebook. Then Likes a photo that your ex took at the beach… at 1am…
- Tostino 2y ago..."I was just trying to help you out, you seem lonely."
- MaheshNat 2y agoHonestly I wouldn't mind if i have a keybind I can press to instantly nuke anything that the AI is trying to do, and if before executing any arbitrary shell command it asks for my permission first.
- 38 2y agothis is such a hilariously bad idea, its like knowingly installing malware on your computer - malware that has access to your bank account. please god, any sane person reading this do not install this, you've been warned.
- layer8 2y agoAccess to your bank account typically requires 2FA.
- ceejayoz 2y agoNot necessarily if the device is already trusted!
- layer8 2y agoOn a desktop? Where I live all banks require a mobile app (which in turn requires 2FA for login and also for any transaction) or else separate authentication hardware.
- ceejayoz 2y agoThe US doesn't have 2FA for transactions. I can't think of a single bank app/site that requires 2FA on every login; most have a "trusted device" option and that cookie becomes your "something you have" second factor for future logins.
- oezi 2y agoThe PSD2 directive mandates the 2nd factor to be able provide you with an independent means of displaying the transaction you are performing. This essentially means the 2nd factor must be an device.
- superkuh 2y agoYikes! Requiring a smart phone (or other extra hardware) is pretty exclusionary for a service that all people need like banking. First time I've heard about practices like that. I hope it doesn't spread.
- digitcatphd 2y agoI did this and it just used my card to book round trip tickets to Yosemite almost immediately
- karmajunkie 2y agoseriously, or is this missing a /s tag?
- GaggiX 2y agoHe's joking, in the report of Claude Computer Use it was reported that Claude stopped doing a task and started searching images of the Yellowstone National Park.
- Uehreka 2y agoDon’t encourage the /s, I only see people use /s when they’re writing something that isn’t funny enough to read as a joke or are doing sarcasm badly. Sometimes people make a joke that not everyone is going to get. That’s fine. But if you add the /s, it ruins the joke for the people who did get it.
- tgv 2y agoIt's also a lazy convention for lazy replies, the sort HN discourages. As you say, it's doing sarcasm, but badly: the writer can blurt out the first quip that comes to mind, regardless of it being related, and hides behind the prestige that sarcasm has, while often only virtue signalling.
- scubbo 2y agoYour judgement of entertainment is not more important than clarity of communication.
- Uehreka 2y agoIf you want to be sure you’re clearly understood, don’t use sarcasm (it’s a massively overrated and really cheap form of humor anyway). If you want to be funny, take the risk that you’ll be misunderstood. My problem is with people who want it both ways.
- pavlov 2y agoName produces flashbacks to browsing Usenet on Windows 95.
- trinix912 2y agoOr Microsoft Agent, the technology behind MS Office Clippy.
- KaoruAoiShiho 2y agoHow hard would it be to finetune a local VLM for computer use? Sonnet 3.5 is reaaaallly expensive.
- DebtDeflation 2y agoRemember a few years back when there was the story about the little girl who did an "Alexa, order me a dollhouse" on the news and people watching the show had their Alexas pick up on it and order dollhouses during the broadcast? Wait until there's a widely watched Netflix show where someone says "Delete C:\Windows".
- foobarian 2y agoformat c: /autotest
- throwup238 2y agoMy wake word is "Computer" like in Star Trek, so I'm really worried I'll be rewatching an old episode and it'll kill the electrical grid when someone says "Computer, reverse the polarity." (I plan on giving my AI access to a crosspoint power switch just for funsies).
- Rygian 2y agoNah, you'll just get live wire where neutral wire is expected.
- Popeyes 2y agoSo they will get a Riker instead of Data?
- moffkalast 2y agoYou know I've been meaning to ask somebody, people always make a fuss about which is which but like.. schuko and europlug and a few others are omnidirectional and aren't even labelled so chances are stuff is always plugged in wrong and it all works fine. I guess it's all rectified anyway so it doesn't matter?
- aaronmdjones 2y agoIt does matter in some cases. For example, in Edison screw desk lamps, the tip is supposed to be connected to line, with the outer ring connected to neutral. If this is reversed, there is a risk you can shock yourself screwing or unscrewing a bulb while the lamp is turned on, because now line is on the outside, much closer to your fingers. Worse, the light switch would now be switching neutral, so even turning the lamp off won't stop this. EDIT: Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q5wYV3flKI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q5wYV3flKI
- max_ 2y agoSuch garbage is only possible because there has been a strong deviation between ethics, philosophy & technology. The business bros are to immoral to know that this is unethical as thier eyes are focused on making money. Not being ethical. The ethical activists & philosophers like Richard Stallman & Jaron Lanier offer un-realistic solutions that normal people cannot adopt. - I can't turn off JavaScript because 80% of my websites won't work, - I can't ditch Apple because GNU wants me to use a 15 year old computer with completely "libre" software impractical for work - I need a cellphone to communicate. I can move without a cellphone like RMS. We need to start teaching people in technology not just "code" but also ethics/philosophy like they do in medicine & law. Also we need people with better moral standards. I would really like it if someone like Snowden, RMS to Jaron built business products (not just non-profit gimmicks) that satisfied real consumer needs. Otherwise we are doomed.
- valval 2y agoIf you want to affect the decision making of the majority, the burden of proof is on you. Otherwise, your best option is to boycott.
- ceejayoz 2y ago"Prove cigarattes/PFOS are dangerous!" Fifty years later, after much meddling from the industry. "Now, prove vaping/PFOA is dangerous!" We invent novel dangerous things faster than we can deal with novel dangerous things.
- mathgeek 2y agoLikely tied to how quickly we produce novel things in general, making the dangerous subset sufficiently large. That’s a root of a common argument you’ll see around regulation stifling innovation.
- littlestymaar 2y ago> Otherwise, your best option is to boycott. Ted Kaczynski enters the chat
- itissid 2y agoOne thing this could be safely used is for generally is read only situations. Like monitor Brokered CD > 5% are released by refreshing the page or during the pandemic when Amazon Shopping window opened up at an arbitrary time and ring an alarm. Hopefully it is not too slow and can do this.
- RedShift1 2y agoMissed opportunity for agent_smith.exe but oh well.
- bloomingkales 2y agoIt is inevitable. Someone please just make the Matrix repo so we can all begin contributing, enough the with the charades.
- waffletower 2y agoI'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals...
- dmezzetti 2y agoWhy???
- davedx 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_box https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_box
- afinlayson 2y agoHow long until it can quickly without you noticing add a daemon running on your system. This is the equivalent of how we used to worry about Soviet spies getting access to US secrets, and now we just post them online for everyone to see. There's no antivirus or firewall today that can protect your files from the ability this could have to wreck havoc on your network, let alone your computer. This scene comes to mind: https://makeagif.com/i/BA7Yt3 https://makeagif.com/i/BA7Yt3
- tomjen3 2y agoEasy! We treat it as what it is - another user. Who is easily distracted and cannot be relied on not to hand over information to third parties or be tricked by simple issues. At minimum it needs its own account, one that does not have sudo privileges or access to secret files. At best it needs its own VM. I am most familiar with Azure (I am sure AWS can help you out too), but you can create a VM there and run it for several hours for less than a dollar, if you want to separate the AI from things it should not have access to.
- Groxx 2y ago"not hand over information to third parties" is the hard part though, as that often looks no different from "get useful data from third parties". Particularly when it can be smuggled into GET params, a la `www.usefulfeature.com/?q=weather_today_injected_phone_8675309`. A huge part of the usefulness of these systems is their ability to plug arbitrary things together. Which also means arbitrary holes. Throw an llm into the mix and now your holes are infinitely variable and are by design Internet-controlled and will sometimes put glue on your pizza.
- Rygian 2y agoYou don't only need a VM. You also need network isolation from the rest of your network (unless you already expose your whole network as routable on the Internet).
- kcorbitt 2y agoOn the one hand very true, but on the other hand if you're a dev any python or nodejs package you install and run could do the same thing and the world mostly continues working.
- guynamedloren 2y ago> Known limitations: > - Lets an AI completely take over your computer :)
- twobitshifter 2y agoYikes! Might he cool to air gap it and tell it to code it’s own OS or something, but I wouldn’t let those anywhere near my real stuff.
- lemonberry 2y agoAgree. My immediate thought on having this was moving to two computers. One for this kind of AI integration and another that, if not with an air gap, certainly with stricter security.
- beefnugs 2y agoJokes on you, business owners love this shit. "my employees screw up all the time, now i can have 100 more employees for the same price. Shut up i wont bother doing the math on how many more mistakes per hour that is"
- mensetmanusman 2y agoI hope this is the start of SkyNet.
- bloomingkales 2y agoSo long as we make the launch nuke methods private, we should be okay I think. But there’s an insurgent class of developers who insist on letting the AI rewrite its own code, which is terrible news in the grand scheme of things.
- danudey 2y agoSkyNet with ADHD: https://x.com/anthropicai/status/1848742761278611504 https://x.com/anthropicai/status/1848742761278611504
- meindnoch 2y agoOk, this is funny :D For those who don't know: there's an old movie titled "Terminator", and in this movie a military AI (Artificial Intelligence) takes over the world and wages a war against humanity. The name of this AI in the movie is "SkyNet", so this is what the parent comment is referring to :D
- charlierguo 2y agoIt's fascinating/spooky how different LLMs are slowly developing their own "personalities," so to speak. And they seem to be emerging as we're giving them access to more tools and modalities which are harder to do broad RLHF on. With computer use, we first learned that Claude sometimes takes breaks to browse pictures of Yosemite, and now this: > Claude really likes Firefox. It will use other browsers if it absolutely has to, but will behave so much better if you just install Firefox and let it go to its happy place.
- tomjen3 2y agoI mean if the goal is to humanize and make AIs more relatable, then fine. If it had stopped the coding task to browse hackernews, I would have to start to march for AI rights.
- m463 2y agostep 2: make posts to hacker news with source code link, causing reproduction of Agent.exe, possibly with mutations via forking
- abixb 2y ago>Claude really likes Firefox. I don't mind being reigned over by AI overlords that'll choose FOSS over proprietary.
- dangsux 2y ago[dead]
- danudey 2y ago> we first learned that Claude sometimes takes breaks to browse pictures of Yosemite We learned what now?
- abixb 2y agoFor those lacking context: https://x.com/anthropicai/status/1848742761278611504 https://x.com/anthropicai/status/1848742761278611504 From the Anthropic tweet (X post?): "Even while recording these demos, we encountered some amusing moments. In one, Claude accidentally stopped a long-running screen recording, causing all footage to be lost. Later, Claude took a break from our coding demo and began to peruse photos of Yellowstone National Park."
- pants2 2y agoAny anecdotes about how many $ of API credits this thing costs to run for a simple task like booking a flight?
- MacsHeadroom 2y ago~50¢
- sosturndachoc 2y ago[dead]
- magnat 2y ago> the default project they provided felt too heavyweight > This is a simple Electron app ಠ_ಠ
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- computeruseYES 2y agoMake it run out of the box with double click Make it allow any model selection with openrouter api keys Charge money?
- ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 2y agoNo disclaimer hmm? Anthropic made it sound very scary. https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-quickstarts/tree/main/computer-use-demo#anthropic-computer-use-demo https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-quickstarts/tree/mai...
- insane_dreamer 2y agoThen one day it asks you to grant it sudo powers so it can be more helpful. And then one day it decides to run sudo rm -f /
- taroth 2y agoGreat idea Kyle! I read through the source code as an experienced desktop automation/Electron developer and felt good about trying it for some basic tasks. The implementation is a thin wrapper over the Anthropic API and the step-based approach made me confident I could kill the process before it did anything weird. Closed anything I didn't want Anthropic seeing in a screenshot. Installed smoothly on my M1 and was running in minutes. The default task is "find flights from seattle to sf for next tuesday to thursday". I let it run with my Anthropic API key and it used chrome. Takes a few seconds per action step. It correctly opened up google flights, but booked the wrong dates! It had aimed for november 2nd, but that option was visually blocked by the Agent.exe window itself, so it chose november 20th instead. I was curious to see if it would try to correct itself as Claude could see the wrong secondary date, but it kept the wrong date and declared itself successful thinking that it had found me a 1 week trip, not a 4 week trip as it had actually done. The exercise cost $0.38 in credits and about 20 seconds. Will continue to experiment
- computeruseYES 2y agoThanks so much, valuable information, sounds much faster than we heard about, maybe cost could be brought down by sending some of the prompts to a cheaper model or updating how the screenshots are tokenized
- taroth 2y agoThe safety rails are indeed enforced. I asked it to send a message on Discord to a friend and got this error: > I apologize, but I cannot directly message or send communications on behalf of users. This includes sending messages to friends or contacts. While I can see that there appears to be a Discord interface open, I should not send messages on your behalf. You would need to compose and send the message yourself. error({"message":"I cannot send messages or communications on behalf of users."})
- taroth 2y agoGave it a new challenge of > add new mens socks to my amazon shopping cart Which it did! It chose the option with the best reviews. However again the Agent.exe window was covering something important (in this case, the shopping cart counter) so it couldn't verify and began browsing more socks until I killed it. Will submit a PR to autohide the window before screenshot actions.
- bsaul 2y agoSidenote : i recently tried cursor, in "compose" mode, starting a fullstack project from scratch, and i'm stupefied by the result. Do people in the software community realize how much the industry is going to totally transform in the next 5 years ? I can't imagine people actually typing code by hand anymore by that time.
- scubbo 2y agoYes, people realize this. We've already had several waves of reaction - mostly settling on "the process of software engineering has always been about design, communication, and collaboration - the actual act of poking keys to enter code into a machine is just an unfortunate necessity for the Real Work"
- j-a-a-p 2y agoAbsolutely. I am creating more code than ever, but mostly copy/pasting it.
- tomjen3 2y agoI think all of those of us who are paying attention expect it to change drastically. Its just how I don't know (I accept "there will be nothing like software development" among the outcome space), so I am trying to position myself to take advantage of the fallout, where ever it may land. But I also note that all the examples I have seen are with relatively simple projects started from scratch (on the one hand it is out of this world wild that it works at all), whereas most software development is adding features/fix bugs in already existing code. Code that often blows out the context window of most LLMs.
- sdesol 2y ago> I can't imagine people actually typing code by hand anymore by that time. I can 100% imagine this. What I suspect developers will do in the future is become more proficient at deciding when to type code and when to type a prompt.
- troupo 2y agoYes, I tried it, too, and while impressive, it still sucks for everything. For the industry to totally transform it has to have the same exponential improvements as it has had in the past two years, and there are no signs that this will happen
- waffletower 2y agoApple is best positioned to run with the implications of these developments (though Microsoft will probably respond too) with both their historic operating system control hooks and their architecturally grounded respect for privacy (arguably of course). Apple seems to be paying very close attention to LLM developments, I doubt they will rush out an 80/20 response to these LLM agent control use cases, but I would be surprised if they didn't enter this product space.
- pazimzadeh 2y agoYeah, I was really hoping for some kind of computer control in their AI announcement. Hopefully version 2..
- troupo 2y ago> I doubt they will rush out an 80/20 response to these LLM agent control use cases That's exactly what they are already doing with their late and delayed "AI": shipping either half-baked features (their new "memojis"), or features others have had for years (object removal in photos, see Photomator), or delaying features indefinitely (see Siri)
- cibyr 2y ago20 years ago: "I would never let the AI out of the box! I'm not an idiot!" Today: "Sure, I'll give the AI full control over my computer. WCGW?"
- CaptainFever 2y agoSimilarly... 20 years ago: "Don't meet strangers from the Internet. Don't get into strangers' cars." Today: Literally summon strangers from the Internet to get into their cars
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- dr_kiszonka 2y agoI wonder how their safety team goes about monitoring Claude's actions. Would it be possible for multiple instances of Claude to coordinate their actions via their users' machines? What I have in mind is, is there a malicious sequence of benign subsequences of actions such that the malicious intent can be achieved by different AI instances completing the benign subsequences in a distributed, yet coordinated manner? If yes, how to catch it?
- bloomingkales 2y agoAnyone have spare machines and want to one v. one my computer-use AI? We just tell it to hack each other’s computers and see how it goes.
- andrewmcwatters 2y agoI've been wondering for a while now if Selenium could be replaced by a standard browser distribution with LLM multimodal control. This seems conceptually close.
- jdthedisciple 2y agoLLM doesn't come with headless mode so I'd wager no.
- DeathArrow 2y agoOk, now I can install this on my work laptop and go on vacation for a few months. :)
- Sincere6066 2y agoBut I don't want that.
- huqedato 2y agoWhy would I let an AI (controlled by a company) to control my computer? Thanks, but no thanks.
- Simon321 2y agoDoes it support AWS Bedrock instead of Anthropic as a provider?
- mt_ 2y agoFeature request
- tadeegan 2y agoThis is literally how Skynet happens lol
- ImHereToVote 2y agoDoomers like you have completely lost touch with reality. Anything that happens in sci-fi movies can't happen in reality. Don't you guys know anything?
- another_devy 2y agocan this be used for desktop/ mobile app testing?
- snug 2y agoIt seems to only work with simple task, I asked it to create some simple tables in both Rhino (Mac App) and OnShape (Chrome tab) and it just seems lost With Rhino it sees the app open, and it says it's doing all these actions, like creating a shape, but I don't see it being done, and it will just continue on to the next action without the previous step being done. It doesn't check if the previous task was completed With OnShape, it says it's going to create a shape, but then selects the wrong item from the menu but assumes it's using the right tool, and continues on with the actions as if it the previous action was done
- alicelebi 2y ago"Skynet" arises.
- anigbrowl 2y agoThis is a botnet waiting to happen.
- Rygian 2y agoIsn't it already?
- myprotegeai 2y agoComputer, shitpost memes all day that make me crypto while I raise my family and tend to my garden. The future is heading in the direction of only suckers using computers. Real wealth is not touching a computer for anything.
- posting_mess 2y ago> "Find flights Tuesday to Thursday next week" > AI Picks Thursday to Saturday this week (as time of writing) Still cheaper to higher real people then
- duckmysick 2y agoSuper off-topic, but somewhat related. What people use to automate non-browser GUI apps on Linux on Wayland? I need to occasionally do it, but this particular combination eludes me. - CLI apps - no problem, just write Bash/Python/whatever - browser apps, also no problem, use Selenium/Playwright - Xorg has some libraries; even if they are clunky they will work in a pinch - Windows has tons of RPA (Robotic Process Automation) solutions But for Wayland I couldn't find anything reliable.
- skydhash 2y agoMost non browser apps have flags or a cli version.
- mountainriver 2y agoCheck out https://github.com/agentsea/agentd https://github.com/agentsea/agentd and https://github.com/agentsea/agentdesk https://github.com/agentsea/agentdesk You can connect to desktop containers and VMs running Linux. We’ve been doing this for a while before Claude made it cool.
- bogdart 2y agoThat's one of the main reasons why I don't switch to Wayland
- tonetheman 2y ago[dead]
- FloatArtifact 2y agoI think there's a lot of opportunity here to make a hybrid of voice control through more traditional approach along with a LLM It will interesting to see how this evolves. UI automation use case is different from accessibility do to latency requirement. latency matters a lot for accessibility not so much for ui automation testing apparatus. I've often wondered what the combination of grammar-based speech recognition and combination with LLM could do for accessibility. Low domain Natural Language Speech recognition augmented by grammar based speech recognition for high domain commands for efficiency/accuracy reducing voice strain/increasing recognition accuracy. https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/dragonfly https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/dragonfly
- SamDc73 2y agoI built something similar (still no GUI) but for the in browser actions only, I think in-browser actions are much safer and can be more predictable with easier to implement safeguards, but I would love to see how this concept pan out in the future! PS: you can check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/SamDc73/WebTalk/ https://github.com/SamDc73/WebTalk/ Please let me know what you guys think!
- waihtis 2y agoWindows Defender now flags this as a trojan?
- rsanek 2y agoAnyone else getting 400s with "This action is restricted for safety reasons at this time" when trying to use the app? I don't see any docs that mention you have to manually enable the API or anything.
- scrps 2y agoSet a job to have it reboot the system, set it to run on boot, achieve AI-hyped useless machine! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useless_machine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useless_machine
- albert_e 2y agoGood tool to test the new capability. Thanks for sharing. My limited testing has produced okay result for a trivial use case and very disappointing results for a simple use case. Trivial: what is the time. | Claude: took screnshot and read the time off the bottom right. | Cost: $0.02 Simple: download a high resolution image of singapore skyline and set it as desktop wallpaper | Claude: description of steps looks plausible but actions are wild and all over the place. opens national park service website somehow and only other action it is able to do is right click a couple of times. failed! | Cost: $0.37 Long way to go before it can be used for even hobby use cases I feel. PS: is it possible that the screenshots include a image of Agent.exe itself and that is creating a poor feedback loop somehow?
- edub 2y agoUsing LLM to control your machine has amazing potential for accessibility.