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Researchers Develop AI Web Agent to Make the Internet More Accessible
A generalist web agent holds the potential to automate routine web tasks and enhance user experiences.
In an effort to make the Internet more accessible for people with disabilities, researchers at Ohio State University have begun developing an artificial intelligence agent that could complete complex tasks on any website using simple language commands.
Many tasks on the Internet can take more than a dozen steps to complete. "For some people, especially those with disabilities, it's not easy for them to browse the Internet," says
Yu Su, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Ohio State, and co-author of the study presented at the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. Su and the researchers used information taken from live sites to create web agents — online AI helpers — to help make the Internet easier to navigate.
The team harnessed the power of large language models and explored if a generalist web agent can follow natural language instructions to complete tasks on any given website. Their model was able to understand the layout and functionality of different websites using only its ability to process and predict language, their study shows.
From Ohio State University
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