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I don't feel like I want AI in my browser. I'm not sure what I'd do with it. Maybe translation?
by recursive 10mo ago
I don't feel like I want AI in my browser. I'm not sure what I'd do with it. Maybe translation?
- ekr____ 10mo agoFWIW, Firefox already has AI-based translation using local models.
- actionfromafar 10mo agoI like translation, it's come in handy a few times, and it's neat to know it's done locally.
- SirHumphrey 10mo agoI use it a lot more now I know it's done locally.
- clueless 10mo agoyeah, translation, article summarization, asking questions from a long wiki page... and maybe with some agents built-in as well: parallelizing a form filling/ecom task, having the agent transcribe/translate an audio/video in real time, etc All this would allow for a further breakdown of language barriers, and maybe the communities of various languages around the world could interact with each other much more on the same platforms/posts
- nijave 10mo agoSuper charged search on page would also be nice Agents (like a research agent) could also be interesting
- dredmorbius 10mo agoMozilla implementing a search feature which renders Google and/or its advertising capabilities irrelevant is highly unlikely so long as Mozilla is a financial vassal of Google.
- nijave 10mo agoSearch on page (ctrl-f), not search on internet
- dredmorbius 10mo agoAh, I'd missed that, thanks.
- recursive 10mo agoIf I have to fill a form for anything that matters, I'm doing it by hand. I don't even use the existing historical auto-complete stuff. It can fill stuff incorrectly. LLMs regularly get factual stuff wrong in mysterious ways when I engage with them as chat bots. It might be less effort to verify correctness than type in all the fields, but IMO there's less risk of missing or forgetting to check one of the fields.
- dawnerd 10mo agoI've had on so many cases autocomplete forms puts something in a field it shouldn't and messes up a submission. I've had it happen on travel documents that caused headaches later at the airport - especially if it fills in a hidden field because some bad web dev implemented it poorly.
- charcircuit 10mo agoIt gets it wrong because the current "AI" for filling out forms is extremely weak and brittle compared to the general language models we have now.
- recursive 10mo agoLanguage models seem pretty weak and brittle in my interactions with them too.
- oneeyedpigeon 10mo agoDo you have an example form field that a general language model could fill out better than a human + highly focussed deterministic algorithm?
- charcircuit 10mo agoEcommerce checkout. Filling out my address, billing adress, and credit card information. Things like drop downs or different formatting can mess up the current basic ones, but it really shouldn't be that hard for AI to figure out how to fill out such information it knows about me into the form.
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- account42 10mo agoI don't even want translation in my browser.