Buongiorno, grazie per la segnalazione! Daniela Tafani <daniela.tafani@unipi.it> writes:

"by taking over a users' device"!

più o meno come fanno il 95% dei sistemi operativi installati sugli users' devices? :-D

OpenAI developing software that operates devices, automates tasks February 7, 2024

Microsoft-backed OpenAI is working on a type of agent software to automate complex tasks by taking over a users' device, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing a person with knowledge on the matter.

oh mamma l'ennesimo "assistant", evidentemente i "device" degli utenti sono Troppo Complicati™ da utilizzare, abbiamo bisogno di facilitatori. Incredibile constatare come /storicamente/ i reparti *marketing* (che sono quelli che determinano l'agenda dei reparti R&D) non imparano mai nulla dai propri errori: - Bob, 1995, rititato nel 1996: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Agent - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana_(virtual_assistant) ... e l'ultima evoluzione: Copilot! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Copilot

The agent software will handle web-based tasks

un Copilot con accesso automatico al conto corrente delle vostre banche! :-D «Alexa, ricordati di pagare il bollo auto...ah, e la multa dell'autovelox"» --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- According to Alan Cooper, the "Father of Visual Basic", the concept of Clippit was based on a "tragic misunderstanding" of research conducted at Stanford University, showing that the same part of the brain in use while using a mouse or keyboard was also responsible for emotional reactions while interacting with other human beings and thus is the reason people yell at their computer monitors.[11] Microsoft concluded that if humans reacted to computers the same way they react to other humans, it would be beneficial to include a human-like face in their software.[11] As people already related to computers directly as they do with humans, the added human-like face emerged as an annoying interloper distracting the user from the primary conversation.[11] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant#History) --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Cortana indexed and stored user information. Cortana could have been disabled; this caused Windows search to search Bing as well as the local computer, but that also could have been disabled. Turning Cortana off did not in itself delete user data stored on Microsoft's servers, but data were able to be deleted by user action.[89] Microsoft was further criticized for requests to Bing's website for a file called "threshold.appcache", which contained Cortana's information through searches made through the Start Menu, even when Cortana was disabled on Windows 10.[90][91] As of April 2014, Cortana was disabled for users aged under 13 years.[92] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana_(virtual_assistant)#Privacy_concerns) Evidenzio come i "concerns" relativi alla privacy *pare* stiano gradualmente sparendo con l'introduzione di Copilot, evidentemente con l'introduzione dell'AI... cambia tutto. (?)

such as gathering public data about a set of companies, creating itineraries or booking flight tickets, according to the report, opens new tab.

«Where do you want to go today?» (1994, Microsoft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_do_you_want_to_go_today%3F "open new tab" (autonomamente o su richiesta?) è una killer feature, direi!

The new assistants - often called "agents" - promise to perform more complex personal and work tasks when commanded to by a human, without needing close supervision. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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