[Hidden-tech] Looking for an AI tool that can control a browser (or other desktop computer program)

[Rob Laporte]

Hi Rich and all,

2025 is supposed to be the year when "agentic" LLMs become part of the typical 20/mo plans. Currently, people are making it work with the likes of Zapier.com and what
Fungai's reply below mentioned.

The Jeff Chaisson I cc told me his Northampton employer https://secondwindconsultants.com/our-team/ has setup LLM-powered email routing and subsequent actions. Their team seems sharp on business tech. Jeff, Rich runs the regional business list-serve https://www.hidden-tech.net/, which I imagine your team knows if not signed up with. There might be synergies between your two orgs.






Second Wind helps business victims of those shady business loan firms. I too get tons of spam from such firms. I've found that typical spam rules in email software demand a lot of time to get right, and I agree that LLMs should expedite handling such--and handling good emails too. 



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---- On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:08:08 -0500 Fungai Tichawangana [Artist Dynamix] via Hidden-discuss <mailto:hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote ---



Hi Rich,



I've been experimenting with AI Agents and this may help.



SmythOS (https://smythos.com/) - create agents that can accomplish different tasks autonomously

(Another one is Relevance AI, but I haven't tried it out)



You could also check out https://www.make.com/. Integrates with a ton of different apps and you can set up all sorts of automations.



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On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 at 13:32, Rich at tnr via Hidden-discuss <mailto:hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:




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Lots of you are working on various AI project so hoping someone has some 
 experience with something like this.
 
 The idea is to be able to control very standard but not exact browser or 
 email reader (thunderbird for me) sequences.  A simple email example 
 would be 'delete any email offering a business loan',
 I get a dozen a day -- the subject line has a dozen different phrases.
 So the key steps would be recognize a related phrase and then trigger an 
 action in the email program.
 Another would be to find that latest episode of a list of tv series and 
 record them.
 That would require scanning a number of web pages and triggering each 
 show and the recording program for that show.
 
 I was suggested Claude as a basis.
      https://www.anthropic.com/
      https://docs.anthropic.com/en/home
 It has a key feature in that it relies on tools to do the detailed work.
 I haven't found tools that seem to do these steps, which might mean I've 
 just not looked in the right place.
 Any other platform suggestion is fine also.
 
 This sounds like a simple case of windows (mac or linux is ok) macros, only
 the situations vary based on each case, it takes an operator a few 
 seconds to see
 the difference in the location of the screen, so a macro is too rigid.
 
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