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Jesus fucking Christ you're on a restaurant booking page looking at a date picker and you need an agent to fill it out for you?

_doctor_love 1mo ago
If I have an injury or I am disabled, then yes, an agent helping me fill out forms might be a life-changing improvement.
- LetsGetTechnicl 1mo ago
  We already have accessibility tools for that
  - simonw 1mo ago
    Which ones?
    - LetsGetTechnicl 1mo ago
      The accessibility tools most computers have had since the 90's? Apple has a plethora of screen navigation tools in their OS's. Or, calling the restaurant and booking a table directly in this case.
      - esafak 1mo ago
        This is immeasurably better.
        LetsGetTechnicl 1mo ago
        Well one works reliably and the other is "agentic" AI
SoMomentary 1mo ago
This isn't for when you are looking at the restaurant booking page, it's for when your agent is on that page. Personally I don't need an agent to help me with this specific problem, but I could see it being a real boon for people with accessibility needs. Sometimes it helps to not think of why we should reject things but instead to think of why someone might accept them.
- LetsGetTechnicl 1mo ago
  It does mention something about "using the page you're already logged into" so I presumed that it meant the browser you had open in front of you
- SahAssar 1mo ago
  I think the notion that the solution to accessibility is to place a unreliable agent in-between is ludicrous. If a page has good accessibility an agent should have no problem to interact with it. If WebMCP becomes an acceptable solution for accessibility then the only way people who need accessibility will be able to interact with services is via agents.
eatsyourtacos 1mo ago
"Hey AI, find me a X cuisine restaurant around Y location that has availability at 7pm tonight" .. "Cool, book Z" Seems obvious why an API would be helpful on that page instead of having the AI attempt to navigate the page, open up a date picker and click all around.. And as others have said, if you are disabled in some way being able to just speak and get something like this done seems pretty life changing. But you go ahead and be mad about an api...
- LetsGetTechnicl 1mo ago
  Right, because disabled people have been sitting at home not able to book a restaurant until now
  - eatsyourtacos 1mo ago
    Well aren't you a ray of sunshine?
nashashmi 1mo ago
Absolutely. I am always complaining that natural language creation of calendar events is not a thing. “Meeting next Thursday at 9 am at the starbucks near me”
qsdg17 1mo ago
They couldn't get a biometric voice sample and unique identifier without this AI crap. And people here cheer it on.

_doctor_love 1mo ago

If I have an injury or I am disabled, then yes, an agent helping me fill out forms might be a life-changing improvement.

LetsGetTechnicl 1mo ago
We already have accessibility tools for that
- simonw 1mo ago
  Which ones?
  - LetsGetTechnicl 1mo ago
    The accessibility tools most computers have had since the 90's? Apple has a plethora of screen navigation tools in their OS's. Or, calling the restaurant and booking a table directly in this case.
    - esafak 1mo ago
      This is immeasurably better.
      - LetsGetTechnicl 1mo ago
        Well one works reliably and the other is "agentic" AI

SoMomentary 1mo ago

This isn't for when you are looking at the restaurant booking page, it's for when your agent is on that page. Personally I don't need an agent to help me with this specific problem, but I could see it being a real boon for people with accessibility needs. Sometimes it helps to not think of why we should reject things but instead to think of why someone might accept them.

LetsGetTechnicl 1mo ago
It does mention something about "using the page you're already logged into" so I presumed that it meant the browser you had open in front of you
SahAssar 1mo ago
I think the notion that the solution to accessibility is to place a unreliable agent in-between is ludicrous. If a page has good accessibility an agent should have no problem to interact with it. If WebMCP becomes an acceptable solution for accessibility then the only way people who need accessibility will be able to interact with services is via agents.

eatsyourtacos 1mo ago

"Hey AI, find me a X cuisine restaurant around Y location that has availability at 7pm tonight" .. "Cool, book Z" Seems obvious why an API would be helpful on that page instead of having the AI attempt to navigate the page, open up a date picker and click all around.. And as others have said, if you are disabled in some way being able to just speak and get something like this done seems pretty life changing. But you go ahead and be mad about an api...

LetsGetTechnicl 1mo ago
Right, because disabled people have been sitting at home not able to book a restaurant until now
- eatsyourtacos 1mo ago
  Well aren't you a ray of sunshine?

nashashmi 1mo ago

Absolutely. I am always complaining that natural language creation of calendar events is not a thing. “Meeting next Thursday at 9 am at the starbucks near me”

qsdg17 1mo ago

They couldn't get a biometric voice sample and unique identifier without this AI crap. And people here cheer it on.