Firefox Maker Plans to Add AI Features to Its Browser - WSJ (www.wsj.com)

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Mozilla plans to add artificial intelligence features to its Firefox web browser. At the WSJ’s Future of Everything Festival Mozilla CEO Laura Chambers and Mozilla Foundation president Mark Surman shared their vision for the future of the web with WSJ tech columnist Christopher Mims. Plus, new research questions how much screens before bed actually delay sleep.

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[-] ekky@sopuli.xyz -5 points 4 months ago

I'm surprised that Firefox has no AI elements already. As long as they don't add some LLM BS, I'm sure we'll be just fine.

(That's sarcasm, they are indeed talking about LLM specifically, and not AI in general.)

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 months ago

They're adding auto-generated alt-text for images for blind people. Processed with an on-device ai

[-] lily33@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

It has AI elements already, such as a page translator.

[-] ekky@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, that's what I'm getting at (but thank you for elaborating).

The article makes it seem like they want to "add AI" to Firefox, while it in reality appears to be about LLM. It is ~~unthinkable~~ unlikely that Firefox would not already have some kind of AI implemented.

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