“It’s safe to say that the people who volunteered to “shape” the initiative want it dead and buried. Of the 52 responses at the time of writing, all rejected the idea and asked Mozilla to stop shoving AI features into Firefox.”
“It’s safe to say that the people who volunteered to “shape” the initiative want it dead and buried. Of the 52 responses at the time of writing, all rejected the idea and asked Mozilla to stop shoving AI features into Firefox.”
I’m a senior full-stack engineer at a recruitment startup. I’m the one responsible for the AI side of things. We do document analysis of résumés and all kinds of identification documents and photos. We also run various assistant chatbots that interact with users and accept file uploads, do job interviews and much more. I think I know enough not to embarrass myself.
No. A “built-in AI” is not a collection of “magic algorithms” that suddenly make life better. Working with AI is some of the worst hours I’ve ever spent of my life. Writing increasingly convoluted prompts to make it follow explicitly stated instructions for the N-th time in order not to misuse tools or output the correct structured data is not magic. It’s an exercise in futility most of the time.
So… You’re introducing an autonomous agent between you and the web you’re browsing. With the sole purpose of making decisions and taking actions on your behalf. And this thing is already proven to have the capability to HALLUCINATE.
Aside from all the privacy concerns and assuming that the models actually run locally; all code can have bugs, and worse: this “magic tool” is an amorphous collection of floating point numbers and you can’t debug a neural net’s weights.
If this thing has permission to freely interact with web pages, then sorry, your data will never be safe.
I think you’re the one confusing the terminology.
Oh, you work for Mozilla Firefox, do you?
Being childish and trying to turn what I say into “magic algorithms”
GZ with your made up title, which must be made up, given the crazy ramblings you are making.
The “AI” that Firefox is implementing is not “autonomous” - do look up the definitions, please! It is not sentient, it can’t hallucinate, since it is not sentient. What the big tech are making (their LLM) can’t hallucinate either - they just do something that looks like it, and we put silly terms on it, like hallucinating. You are NOT getting a neural network on your own computer when you install Firefox - now you are just being daft!
You are confused, paranoid and really prove, that you should get to know what you are talking about. sigh
Are you purposefully trolling or just that level of ignorant? I’m done responding here regardless, just curious.
I’ll take that as a no, you are not working for Mozilla. You are being childish by calling it “magic algorithms”. You don’t even know what kind of “AI” FF are talking about…
I would run too, if I were caught in the lies you have spun here.