Chrome Gets Autonomous AI assistant "Project Jarvis"

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• 👻 OpenAI's Orion: The AI that wasn't there

• ⚠️ OpenAI's Whisper tool invents fake diseases

• 🤖 Google's Jarvis: Your AI browser buddy arrives

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🤖 Google's 'Jarvis' Ready to Take Over Your Browser

Google is developing "Project Jarvis," an AI agent designed to work within Chrome browser to control web browsers and handle everyday various online tasks autonomously, with a potential December preview.

How does it work?

• Powered by Gemini 2.0, Google's latest AI model

• Takes periodic screenshots for task interpretation

• Processes each action in several seconds

• Currently relies on cloud processing

• Currently operates with a few-second delay between actions

• Specifically optimized for browser-based tasks

What can it do?

• Handles complex online tasks like research and travel bookings

• Takes screenshots to interpret and navigate web interfaces

• Operates across different software platforms independently

• Performs multi-step processes with reasoning and planning capabilities

When will we see it?

• Potential preview coming in December, Early testing phase coming soon

• Launch expected alongside next-gen Gemini AI model

• Timing coincides with year-end AI updates

• Full release timeline still undetermined

Why should we care?

• Marks shift toward consumer-focused AI automation

• Follows Anthropic's computer use feature launch

• Demonstrates Google's vision for practical AI applications

• Could revolutionize how users interact with the web

What's the bigger picture?

• Part of Google's broader Gemini AI platform strategy

• Focuses on user-supervised task automation

• Google's position in the AI assistant market

• User adoption of AI-powered web automation

• Competition with other AI companies' features

The timing and execution of Jarvis could transform how we interact with the internet, making complex online tasks as simple as giving instructions to a virtual assistant. Also either give Google a strong year-end boost or face tough comparisons with existing solutions like Anthropic's offering.

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Trending Today

• Engineered Arts UK has unveiled a new companion robot “Azie” for their most advanced robot in the world, Ameca. People who watched the conversation between the two AI robots where amazed by the reality and the way the dialogs and expressions worked out.

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has seemingly pushed back against reports claiming the company plans to release a powerful new AI model codenamed ‘Orion’ in December, tweeting "fake news out of control” directly to The Verge. Also An OpenAI spokesperson clarified that they have no plans for an "Orion" release this year but plan to release “a lot of other great technology.”

• Disney is reportedly preparing to unveil a major AI initiative focused on post-production and VFX workflows, which will mark the content giant’s first major embrace of the tech.

• OpenAI released Whisper—an open-source AI transcription tool that enables transcription in multiple languages—but researchers, and clinical professionals, using the tool found tool makes up sentences with violent or racist sentiments, has invented diseases — finding hallucinations in 8/10 transcriptions, another found, 100hrs of transcripts contained half misinformation, and a developer found hallucinations in nearly all of the 26,000 transcriptions he created

• Meta has signed a “multi-year deal” with news outlet, Reuters, which will enable its AI chatbot (Meta AI) to use Reuters content to answer news-related queries, which is the first deal of this type, Meta has signed.

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