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

Fri Jan 10 14:57:38 UTC 2025

Regarding dealing with spam: Back when I used Eudora for an email client 
(20 years!), I made extensive use of their easy mail filters. Any email 
I ever got from anyone I ever wanted to correspond with was given a 
filter that put their emails into one of three folders: friends, family, 
clients. Mailing lists also had filters to their own folders. I'm 
talking hundreds of filters, which Eudora handled beautifully. All that 
was typically left in my inbox was spam, which I could select en masse 
and delete. Easy peasy. I use Thunderbird now, and it's not as easy as 
Eudora, but I still do it that way.

Mik Muller, president
Montague WebWorks
20 River Street, Greenfield, MA
413-320-5336
http://MontagueWebWorks.com
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On 1/9/2025 3:02 PM, Rob Laporte via Hidden-discuss wrote:
> 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
>     SecondWindConsultants.com
>     <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 HiddenTech <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.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> *Rob Laporte*
> CEO  | R&D Manager
> *DISC - Making Websites Make Money*
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>
> *NOTE:* Emails can be blocked by spam filters throughout the web. If 
> you don’t get a reply within an expected span of time, please call.
>
>
>
> ---- On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:08:08 -0500 *Fungai Tichawangana [Artist 
> Dynamix] via Hidden-discuss <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.
>
>     Open skies,
>     Fungai
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>     On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 at 13:32, Rich at tnr via Hidden-discuss
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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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