Besides Firefox, I don't think many of the browsers are user-agents anymore, but more like corporate-agents, as they don't seem to act in the interest of the software user anymore.
fwlr•1h ago
If you’re willing to consider the sequels part of the canon, Smith’s copying/cloning technique does kind of look like OpenAI’s approach to intellectual property.
treetalker•1h ago
"Do you like what I've done with the place?"
ButlerianJihad•1h ago
Wait until you hear about Tron
mixmastamyk•1h ago
Fights for the user and against the MCP!
layer8•36m ago
Ram also had a crisis there I think.
LeoPanthera•33m ago
Dr. Walter Gibbs: [laughs] You've got to expect some static. After all, computers are just machines; they can't think.
Alan Bradley: Some programs will be thinking soon.
Gibbs: Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking, and the people will stop!
zikduruqe•31m ago
The Matrix wasn't a movie, it was a documentary.
djeastm•26m ago
When my agents start referring to humans as a virus and AI as the cure, that's when I'll worry.
chabes•25m ago
That would be too late by that point
cantalopes•25m ago
Agent is something that has been used in programming for ages, even before llms. It's simething you learn about in first years in CS
kirykl•24m ago
'Bad guys' is debatable. It was the humans who scorched the sky
akk0•23m ago
Wait until you learn what the A in CIA stands for and what the stuff they dropped on Vietnam was called
rimunroe•9m ago
Wait, what do you think the A stands for?
Wertulen•8m ago
You really can just type anything into the internet and have it exposed to the whole world.
retrac•2h ago
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/648203.749270
bigfatkitten•1h ago
https://dlnext.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/267658
amiga386•28m ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent
embedding-shape•25m ago
Besides Firefox, I don't think many of the browsers are user-agents anymore, but more like corporate-agents, as they don't seem to act in the interest of the software user anymore.