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I think everyone agrees with you. The issue is who is building API first interfaces? The value an agent provides here is that it moves control from the publishe

I think everyone agrees with you. The issue is who is building API first interfaces? The value an agent provides here is that it moves control from the publisher to the consumer (in the technical sense). “Twitter doesn’t want to let me access via an API? That’s fine, my browser/agent will automatically automate what I want it to do for me in the UI.” Is a major shift in how we interface with other services.

rixed 2y ago
Come especially handy to work around the increasingly user hostile captchas, ironically. I expect this arm race to spiral down quickly into some form of mandatory biometric check, the dream come true of our security obsessed insecure rulers.
- marxisttemp 2y ago
  Altman already spiraled down there: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain) > World Network, originally Worldcoin, is a for-profit cryptocurrency project that uses iris biometrics developed by San Francisco- and Berlin-based Tools for Humanity. Founded in 2019 by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Max Novendstern, and Alex Blania, it has accumulated $250 million in funding from venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures, as well as from Reid Hoffman.
gorgoiler 2y ago
And of course every user interface designed with anccessibility in mind will automatically become an API endpoint, or at the very least an interface that is much easier for machines to use. This goes for aria- labelled forms, but also for button operated doors, tactile surfaces, and information printed in plain and clear English. Robots must love public buildings! Many doors are labelled with a bright green sign using the human word for door (“exit”), most signs and switches are labelled in human binary (braille) and the designers of the building go out of their way to replace lots of pesky steps with nice ramps instead.

rixed 2y ago

Come especially handy to work around the increasingly user hostile captchas, ironically. I expect this arm race to spiral down quickly into some form of mandatory biometric check, the dream come true of our security obsessed insecure rulers.

marxisttemp 2y ago
Altman already spiraled down there: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain) > World Network, originally Worldcoin, is a for-profit cryptocurrency project that uses iris biometrics developed by San Francisco- and Berlin-based Tools for Humanity. Founded in 2019 by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Max Novendstern, and Alex Blania, it has accumulated $250 million in funding from venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures, as well as from Reid Hoffman.

gorgoiler 2y ago

And of course every user interface designed with anccessibility in mind will automatically become an API endpoint, or at the very least an interface that is much easier for machines to use. This goes for aria- labelled forms, but also for button operated doors, tactile surfaces, and information printed in plain and clear English. Robots must love public buildings! Many doors are labelled with a bright green sign using the human word for door (“exit”), most signs and switches are labelled in human binary (braille) and the designers of the building go out of their way to replace lots of pesky steps with nice ramps instead.