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Artifical Neural Networks - can they figure out how to auto fill forms?
I guess my question is that I am developing an application and I'm looking into automating my process at a certain level.
To be able to set my application on auto-pilot I was wondering if neuro networking can be used to navigate to a list of url's and figure out what textbox's are needed and fill them out for me? Example: username, password, email address. If all the accounts are totally different can a neural network navigate to the site, download the html and trial an error figure out which textbox is the correct textbox or should I just setup a slew of if statements instead?
Thanks
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- ?Lv 48 years agoFavorite Answer
Neural Network is merely one of the tools/algorithms used in an attempt to implement AI. I understand what you are asking for is a program that "views" a web page like a human does and "makes sense" of the page how a human does and then takes "action" as if you would take.
Not that it is impossible, it just needs time to make such a program.
However, NN is not "the" or not the only answer to your requirement.
- ChrisLv 78 years ago
What the hell are you talking about...? AI to fill out forms...??
Browsers can do this, and so can apps. The "trick" is that each input field in a form usually has a descriptive name. Which means that in the web page's source code, the field for the username usually* looks like this:
<input type="text" name="username" />
This name attribute is used by auto fill to figure out what goes in there, plain and simple.
*Of course, this is up to the person who codes the page. They could name it "stillwater" if they wanted.
