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Josh Miller

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And I think the equivalent there as it relates to clicking is you're going to tell the computer what you want to do, and it's just going to go do a bajillion things for you with 100% accuracy. Today, that's not possible. That's not how it's going to work. But what is possible is in these small ways, again, saying, add these to my calendar. We can do that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And I think the equivalent there as it relates to clicking is you're going to tell the computer what you want to do, and it's just going to go do a bajillion things for you with 100% accuracy. Today, that's not possible. That's not how it's going to work. But what is possible is in these small ways, again, saying, add these to my calendar. We can do that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And I think the equivalent there as it relates to clicking is you're going to tell the computer what you want to do, and it's just going to go do a bajillion things for you with 100% accuracy. Today, that's not possible. That's not how it's going to work. But what is possible is in these small ways, again, saying, add these to my calendar. We can do that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And we can do that with close to 100% reliability. Our approach is as much as possible, which is increasingly very possible, especially on high-end MacBooks, doing that on device. Data does not leave your device. It's all done locally.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And we can do that with close to 100% reliability. Our approach is as much as possible, which is increasingly very possible, especially on high-end MacBooks, doing that on device. Data does not leave your device. It's all done locally.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And we can do that with close to 100% reliability. Our approach is as much as possible, which is increasingly very possible, especially on high-end MacBooks, doing that on device. Data does not leave your device. It's all done locally.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And when it can't be done locally, making sure that the person says, hey, I'm okay with that trade-off of sending the contents of this PDF to a LLM provider in order to add it to my calendar and let them make that decision. But I think the large point here is what we are not saying is the robots are going to do all of your work for you. That is not our belief.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And when it can't be done locally, making sure that the person says, hey, I'm okay with that trade-off of sending the contents of this PDF to a LLM provider in order to add it to my calendar and let them make that decision. But I think the large point here is what we are not saying is the robots are going to do all of your work for you. That is not our belief.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And when it can't be done locally, making sure that the person says, hey, I'm okay with that trade-off of sending the contents of this PDF to a LLM provider in order to add it to my calendar and let them make that decision. But I think the large point here is what we are not saying is the robots are going to do all of your work for you. That is not our belief.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

But what it can do is it can save people from a lot of the mundanity that relates to futzing around with boxes on the internet all day.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

But what it can do is it can save people from a lot of the mundanity that relates to futzing around with boxes on the internet all day.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

But what it can do is it can save people from a lot of the mundanity that relates to futzing around with boxes on the internet all day.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

set of use cases from what arc search is doing absolutely in fact arc search was really a first prototype there's so many things that i wish we'd done differently and i we've now since learned but really it's just that was the first experiment of this larger idea of us playing with this new play-doh which is okay we can click on things for you we can read things for you we

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

set of use cases from what arc search is doing absolutely in fact arc search was really a first prototype there's so many things that i wish we'd done differently and i we've now since learned but really it's just that was the first experiment of this larger idea of us playing with this new play-doh which is okay we can click on things for you we can read things for you we

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

set of use cases from what arc search is doing absolutely in fact arc search was really a first prototype there's so many things that i wish we'd done differently and i we've now since learned but really it's just that was the first experiment of this larger idea of us playing with this new play-doh which is okay we can click on things for you we can read things for you we

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

Wow, we definitely can't. The writing's really bad. Oh, but interesting. We can transform one type of data format into another type of data format, just feeling out the edges of what it can do today. And as part of that, one small thing that you do is you want to find out a quick answer to something.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

Wow, we definitely can't. The writing's really bad. Oh, but interesting. We can transform one type of data format into another type of data format, just feeling out the edges of what it can do today. And as part of that, one small thing that you do is you want to find out a quick answer to something.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

Wow, we definitely can't. The writing's really bad. Oh, but interesting. We can transform one type of data format into another type of data format, just feeling out the edges of what it can do today. And as part of that, one small thing that you do is you want to find out a quick answer to something.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

You know, I got a skirt state the other day and the guy at the butcher was like, you should make chimichurri sauce. I don't know how to make chimichurri sauce. Sometimes I want to know that. A lot more frequently, there's something for my job or my livelihood where I got to go click a bunch of buttons in the same order every single time.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

You know, I got a skirt state the other day and the guy at the butcher was like, you should make chimichurri sauce. I don't know how to make chimichurri sauce. Sometimes I want to know that. A lot more frequently, there's something for my job or my livelihood where I got to go click a bunch of buttons in the same order every single time.