“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.”
The algorithms to determine which pages are most relevant to your query are traditionally seen as AI too. They’re just not labelled as such (which was the point), and predate the current AI hype.
I hadn’t even thought about the “AI modes” that search engines are incorporating nowadays though, so I get the confusion.
That’s a fair point. But search algorithms fall under the “recommender system” umbrella, which are a very different family from the agentic AI we’re discussing here.
Both are AIs, but with very different use cases. In the same way, you could technically classify both your gaming PC and phone as computers, and you’d be correct.
Edit: links
It was my impression that the thread started wasn’t just talking about agentic AI. And I think a lot of the “anti AI folks” here are also angry about recent non-agentic AI additions that Mozilla added, such as e.g. tab recommendations for tab groups.
The post is about the new AI Window feature, and here’s its description from Mozilla’s own announcement:
So, definitely agentic.
I’ll speak honestly: I’m not happy with that either. But that’s incidental to this topic. The agentic component is my biggest concern.
Hmm could be different commenting styles; I, and I think the thread started as well, regularly broaden a topic in response to an article. So my interpretation when they spoke about people having “AI as a trigger word” was that they were referring to people with concerns about more than just agentic AI. But if you want to limit it to that, feel free to ignore my original reference to search engines.