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Ads will move to the layer of the new interface when that happens. Also a computer can't watch a youtube video for you or look at funny cat pictures. You can still put ads next to things people want to look at.

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Care to elaborate on the idea? I suppose you mean that ads will come to this "computer use" tool itself. Now, will users keep it in the foreground, when they already expect the tool to do (almost) everything for them?

I think the point is - don't be so naive. Companies are investing near trillions into developing models, training models, compute, datacenter, nuclear reactors, etc.

Is the endgame some free/cheap tool that abstracts away the entire ad based web economy to the benefit of end users?

Imagine something closer to a super duper smart useful Siri/Alexa that feeds you product recommendations, paid placement, and other ads interspersed with your actual request response.

Hey Siri what temperature is it? It's 45 and going to be chilly today, a North Face jacket might be handy today.. can I recommend you a few models? What's your size?

Or it's just simply going to make purchases and flight bookings based on paid boosts from online stores and airlines. They will simply say that it's making a holistic assessment, not simply based on the final price but the overall reputability etc. It's to avoid fraud and to streamline experience based on personalized machine learning algorithm result yadda yadda.

I mean, what really are ads and dark tactics (like those observed on accommodation booking websites)? They are ways to influence purchasing decisions.

If the decision is offloaded to AI, then logically ways to sway the AI decision will be developed. Such as backroom deals, hidden prompts and rules governing the assessment of the AI in making choices.

Only a matter of time before computers are generating videos of cats cuter than any real cat.

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