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Mozilla is adding tab grouping, vertical tabs, profile management, and local AI features to Firefox
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this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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There's AI and there's AI. I really like that Firefox has local models for translating content. Them adding AI that describes images for visually impaired people is pretty cool.
Yeah people forget that AI isn't just the garbage generators of late. It's all machine learning based software. There are lots of perfectly valid applications of AI that have been used for decades. The term has just become tainted recently by LLMs.
I kind of hate how machine learning and LLM and a whole bunch of other things are thrown together into "AI" to leverage the hype cycle but that's tech life.
Ok that seems like a good idea. But since when did we need "AI" to translate text? I think this is my big problem. It feels like a lot of "Here's an AI to wake you up at the right time before work!" When shit like that has existed for years with a bunch of "if" and "else" statements. It's not hard to create a series of conditions to do a lot of the things I'm seeing AI uselessly shoved down our throats.
Since a decade or more? Machine learning-based text translation is the reason we get such fantastic automatic translations these days.
It's not an LLM. LLM is AI but not all AI is LLM.