today I want to tell you about project Mariner it's a research prototype exploring the future of human agent interaction and it's built on Gemini 2.0 like with all new technology it's important for us to build this responsibly which is why we're starting small we'll be getting feedback from a group of trusted testers and using their experiences to really shape how project Mariner evolves let me show you how it works so project Mariner works in the browser as an experimental Chrome extension I'm going to start by entering a prompt here I have a list of outdoor
companies listed in Google Sheets and I want to find their contact information so I'll ask the agent to take this list of companies then find their websites and look up a contact email I can use to reach them this is a simplified example of a tedious multi-step task that someone could encounter at work now the agent has read the Google sheet and knows the company names it then starts by searching Google for bet Benchmark climbing and now it's going to click into the website you can see how this research prototype only works in your active
tab it doesn't work in the background once it finds the email address it remembers it and moves on to the next company at any point in this process you can stop the agent or hit pause what's cool is you can actually see the agent's reasoning in the user interface so that you can better understand what it is is doing and it will do the same thing for the next two companies navigating your browser clicking links scrolling and recording information as it goes you're seeing an early stage research prototype so we sped this up for demo
purposes we're working with trusted testers to make it faster and smoother and it's so important to keep a human in the loop after the fourth website the agent has completed its task listing out the email addresses for meeting use and there you have it we're really just scratching the surface of what's possible when you bring agentic AI to computers and we're really excited to see where this goes next
