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Are we at the point now where I can give plain language commands to an AI tool and have it perform an action on my PC? For example, in Photoshop - "draw a red square, rotate right 40 degrees"? What tools should I research/consider?

Has anyone built a dashboard/aggregator, that logs into various sites on your behalf and assembles all the desired content? I would love to have filtered content from Reddit, Next Door, and the dumpster fire that is Facebook assembled all in one place, without having to visit the sites individually.

It's well known by now that many companies have outsourced their entire support/customer service apparatus, allowing only live chat, email, and ticketing systems, while providing no phone support whatsoever - even for urgent matters. These overworked agents mainly parrot information from companies' knowledge base, while possessing little agency to make any kind of decision.

Perhaps you have spent hours or days going back and forth with a polite but clueless and disempowered agent about a matter that could be solved in 30 seconds by someone with decision-making authority.

My question: how do you track down management/decision-makers at these companies in order to escalate a problem and get an actual solution?

A current thorn in my side: Getaround.

Facebook has become a cesspool of scammy ads and grifter nonsense, but I still use it 5-10 mins per day to keep up with events and community connections.

My ad blocker used to work, but no more. What are people using these days?

Like many people who have spent decades behind a keyboard, RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury) prevents me from writing code and doing graphic design through the usual keyboard and mouse inputs.

So I have turned to a complex and highly unreliable software stack that provides both voice-to-text, and clumsy but limited control of Microsoft Windows, Chrome, etc. This includes Dragon Voice-to-text, Voice Computer, and Talon, plus a browser extension and heavy customization.

Users of Dragon will acknowledge that: a) The software is a creaky dumpster fire built on archaic code b) There is no viable alternative on the market

My question is: *how is it that no one has built something better?* The market is huge, and the Natural Language Processing of "OK Google" and Siri are quite refined at this point.

References:

Dragon: https://www.nuance.com/dragon.html

Voice Computer: https://voicecomputer.com/

Talon: https://talonvoice.com/

Who is recognized as having the best deepfake audio software, or the most sophisticated research lab for this?

I'm thinking of material on the level of the Tom Cruise videos like this one: https://www.tiktok.com/@deeptomcruise?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1

Firefox and Chrome have the option of showing most recently visited sites in a nice grid, with a screen capture of each site. Is there a tool that will generate a webpage with the same information, given a list of URLs?

Note: I will need to host this webpage myself.

I'm tired of typing, and it's really getting to my wrists. Yes, I have a fully ergonomic setup.

Speech-to-Text works pretty well via Google's API, for example, I can use this https://dictation.io/speech But this requires a lot of copypasta.

But what I'd really like is a little prompt [] where I can talk and have it insert text wherever the cursor is, in any program - web browser form fields, MS Word, etc. Does this exist?

Certainly it will require some deep thought and lots of coding, but the concept is easy to understand - like Tinder, but with video which users upload right from their devices.

Has anyone built this, and if not, why? It seems like something that should already exist and be in common use, like Tinder, Bumble, etc.