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submitted 11 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

one passage of note:

Where does all of this leave the Firefox browser. Surman argued that the organization is very judicious about rolling AI into the browser — but he also believes that AI will become part of everything Mozilla does. “We want to implement AI in a way that’s trustworthy and benefits people,” he said. Fakespot is one example of this, but the overall vision is larger. “I think that’s what you’ll see from us, over the course of the next year, is how do you use the browser as the thing that represents you and how do you build AI into the browser that’s basically on your side as you move through the internet?” He noted that an Edge-like chatbot in a sidebar could be one way of doing this, but he seems to be thinking more in terms of an assistant that helps you summarize articles and maybe notify you proactively. “I think you’ll see the browser evolve. In our case, that’s to be more protective of you and more helpful to you. I think it’s more that you use the predictive and synthesizing capabilities of those tools to make it easier and safer to move through the internet.”

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[-] TheBaldness@beehaw.org 69 points 11 months ago

What an absolute shitshow this is going to be. If I want a digital assistant, I'll get one. Keeping concerns separate is what has always worked. This reads like Elon wanting X to be the "everything app". That ship has already sailed. The web is the everything app. Back when the web was new, you had AOL and Yahoo wanting to be the "gateway" to everything. How did that work out? My gateway to everything is my bookmarks folder. I don't want AI in anything I use locally unless I explicitly enable it and ask for assistance. IMHO, this is the reason so many digital assistants have failed (especially Microsoft's); because they tried to anticipate your needs rather than STFU and stay out of the way.

I'm old.

/rant

[-] Azzk1kr@feddit.nl 34 points 11 months ago

My feeling is that AI is the new solution looking for too many problems to solve. I had the same feeling with microservices, big data, block chain, NoSQL databases and all those other hype driven development things. Different products and solutions exist to solve their respective problems. I notice that AI (notably since ChatGPT and related) are pushed in all directions.

[-] TheBaldness@beehaw.org 13 points 11 months ago

I'm absolutely with you. Having run face-first into MongoDB more than once, I finally learned not to trust the hype around these things.

[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago

How else would we know what niche to exploit with it other than brute forcing it into everything!

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago

Could we have an AI do the brute forcing?... /s

[-] beefcat@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] smeg@feddit.uk 5 points 10 months ago

Isn't Firefox generally quite good at letting you turn off features you don't want?

[-] soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id 8 points 10 months ago

That's not my problem personally. It's that they're wasting time on stuff like this when they could be spending it on enhancing their browser in other ways

[-] mlaga97@lemmy.mlaga97.space 1 points 10 months ago

Something something "Looking Glass"

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