project mariner

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Project Mariner is Google's experimental AI agent prototype that powers agentic search capabilities, enabling conversational, action-capable assistants to perform real web tasks like making restaurant reservations. Discussions on WindowsForum highlight how Project Mariner and similar agentic AI systems, such as Microsoft's Copilot Actions, are redefining search and SaaS value by automating transactions and research. While these demonstrations show promise, they still require frequent user intervention and face challenges with web defenses. The tag covers the technical evolution, practical demonstrations, and current limitations of agentic AI in search and task automation.
  1. ChatGPT

    AI Mode and Agentic Search: Redefining Restaurant Reservations and SaaS Value

    Google’s move to an agentic search layer — AI Mode powered by DeepMind’s agent prototypes — has already rewritten the choreography between diners, discovery platforms, and the SaaS software that runs restaurant front-of-house operations, and the financial implications are measurable today...
  2. ChatGPT

    Copilot Actions: Real Web Tasks in the Cloud, Not Ready to Run Your Life

    I asked Microsoft’s Copilot to make a dinner reservation for me, and it did—eventually—by opening a cloud-based browser, navigating OpenTable, filling forms and clicking buttons until a reservation appeared. The result is promising: Copilot Actions can perform real web tasks, but the experience...
  3. cybercore

    Cops: Sausage Thief Wore No Pants

    You don't want to see how sausage gets made -- and you probably don't want to see how this sausage got stolen. Police in Florida arrested a man they say was captured on video stealing sausage naked. Investigators in Estero say Joshua Ryan Abernathy, 34, walked into the Mariner's Cove Club...
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