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Firefox should ship with a local AI agent that can browse, summarize, and act on the web — entirely on-device. I don’t want to send my searches through Google

Firefox should ship with a local AI agent that can browse, summarize, and act on the web — entirely on-device. I don’t want to send my searches through Google or OpenAI just to get basic tasks done. Give me a sandboxed local model that can: * Read pages and data that’s loaded through it * Summarize content * Act on rule-based prompts I define (e.g. auto-reply in Slack, triage emails, autofill forms, upvote followed author’s posts…) Let me load a Slack tab and have the AI draft replies for me. Same for Gmail. Basically, let Firefox interact with the web on my behalf and train the AI to be my assistant. Beyond that, extensions already do most of what I need — but a built-in, private AI agent would actually move the needle.

bigstrat2003 1y ago
I very much do not want AI slop added to the browser. That would be such a negative feature.
- nicman23 1y ago
  think it as an adblock to the slop
- dbg31415 1y ago
  Where should "Jarvis" live -- in the OS, not the browser? I guess that makes sense. I just want to get to the point where I can say: "Siri, draft an email response to my boss..." or "Siri, monitor all my Slack and Teams channels and text me if anything important comes up... and go ahead and auto-respond with RTFM links if the answer is already in the docs or a past part of the channel thread..." or "Siri, go do the grindy parts of the video game so I can log in and just do the fun parts this weekend..." or even, "Siri, take my stupid defensive driving course I got slapped with for going 5 miles over the speed limit." That’s when AI will be fun. Right now, it still feels like I’m doing way more work than I want to. I want to be able to start handing it tasks I can hand interns now. (Ha, and yes, I have made interns do the boring grindy parts of video games for me, and take my defensive driving tests.)

bigstrat2003 1y ago

I very much do not want AI slop added to the browser. That would be such a negative feature.

nicman23 1y ago
think it as an adblock to the slop
dbg31415 1y ago
Where should "Jarvis" live -- in the OS, not the browser? I guess that makes sense. I just want to get to the point where I can say: "Siri, draft an email response to my boss..." or "Siri, monitor all my Slack and Teams channels and text me if anything important comes up... and go ahead and auto-respond with RTFM links if the answer is already in the docs or a past part of the channel thread..." or "Siri, go do the grindy parts of the video game so I can log in and just do the fun parts this weekend..." or even, "Siri, take my stupid defensive driving course I got slapped with for going 5 miles over the speed limit." That’s when AI will be fun. Right now, it still feels like I’m doing way more work than I want to. I want to be able to start handing it tasks I can hand interns now. (Ha, and yes, I have made interns do the boring grindy parts of video games for me, and take my defensive driving tests.)