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Ask HN: How to make computer browse internet automatically?
Its an idea, an abstract concept.
Its not AI, not ML, not NN, not LLMs, not automation scripts like puppeteer or selenium.
End result - the computer program browses internet.
Its a vague idea.
The question is not about technicalities involved.
The intention of the question is to spark the thoughts.
Its a single recursive function.
Its a scattered thought, it would be cool to look such program working, and cooler to build one.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79763073/how-to-make-computer-browse-internet-automatically
- eimrine 1y agoJust power it up, the vendor's spyware will do exactly this for fulfilling some vendor's profits.
- _f9cu 1y agoit would be cool to watch a computer browsing. Cooler to build one.
- PaulHoule 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler ?
- _f9cu 1y agono
- fsflover 1y agoWhy not?
- _f9cu 1y agoA web crawler requires me to program the logics. The concept does not require me to program the logics, instead it starts reading a seed page, stores information/knowledge breaks it down to doable actions and performs action one by one. This design allows the information to direct the concept. Where as, in case of web crawler, me/I will have to direct it.
- fsflover 1y agoA good web crawler can just go through all links it finds, no programming is required.
- _f9cu 1y agodefine it
- giveita 1y agoYou want the system to have learned (discretion, taste...), but it cannot learn from a human programing logic, so it must learn either from 1. Something like Machine Learning or.. 2. Some emergent property of mathematics / computation. If you find 2... hell that would be something. Maybe genetic algorithms?
- geophph 1y agoStumbleupon but inside a for loop
- _f9cu 1y agohow does it work ?
- vismit2000 1y agohttps://devrev.ai/meet-computer https://devrev.ai/meet-computer