Ask HN: How to make computer browse internet automatically?
Its an idea, an abstract concept.
Its not AI, not ML, not NN, not LLMs, not automation scripts like puppeteer or selenium.
End result - the computer program browses internet.
Its a vague idea.
The question is not about technicalities involved.
The intention of the question is to spark the thoughts.
Its a single recursive function.
Its a scattered thought, it would be cool to look such program working, and cooler to build one.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79763073/how-to-make-computer-browse-internet-automatically
https://devrev.ai/meet-computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler ?
no
Why not?
A web crawler requires me to program the logics.
The concept does not require me to program the logics, instead it starts reading a seed page, stores information/knowledge breaks it down to doable actions and performs action one by one.
This design allows the information to direct the concept. Where as, in case of web crawler, me/I will have to direct it.
You want the system to have learned (discretion, taste...), but it cannot learn from a human programing logic, so it must learn either from
1. Something like Machine Learning
or..
2. Some emergent property of mathematics / computation.
If you find 2... hell that would be something.
Maybe genetic algorithms?
A good web crawler can just go through all links it finds, no programming is required.
define it
Stumbleupon but inside a for loop
Just power it up, the vendor's spyware will do exactly this for fulfilling some vendor's profits.
it would be cool to watch a computer browsing. Cooler to build one.