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Why is Firefox adding AI features?
by belter 1y ago
Why is Firefox adding AI features?
- ajsnigrutin 1y agoPointy haired bosses heard about AI, and now you have AI everywhere.. you know, just in case, if you wanted an AI chatbot in your image resizing software or your pdf reader. Before that it was "cloud", where every app had to have a cloud-something, even if it didnd't need one.
- lenerdenator 1y agoIn theory, there shouldn't be pointy-haired bosses doing anything with Firefox. That's the entire point. Cathedral vs. bazaar and whatnot.
- nticompass 1y agoDon't forget when everyone was adding "blockchain" to their apps, regardless of what that did or meant.
- Dwedit 1y agoThe one "AI" feature that genuinely helps the user and preserves privacy is the Translation feature. (Yes, machine translation is in fact AI)
- pluto_modadic 1y agotranslation is moreso machine learning, not generative hallucinations or a chatbot
- radarsat1 1y agoit's literally the same technology as LLMs. Transformers were proposed for translation. (But I don't know what methods the Firefox translation uses. I assume it's a local model but don't even know that for sure.)
- sunaookami 1y agoIt is a local model: https://mozilla.github.io/translations/ https://mozilla.github.io/translations/
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- abdullahkhalids 1y ago- Creating alternate sources of revenue. - Chrome and Edge are going to do it as well sooner or later, and Mozilla's modus operandi has been to largely copy feature sets from Chrome to stay relevant.