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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by einat2346@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] iopq@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

AI will be great for translation of webpages locally instead of sending content over the wire

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can get behind this if everything is processed locally. Let my computer do the computing and stop harvesting my data, internet

[–] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago

Firefox already has that as a built-in feature on desktop version.

[–] idefix@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If the only use case is translation, that's probably not a good business case.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

That's not the only use case. It could read a 400 page pdf locally and summarize it for you, answer questions and find which slide the data you want is on.

The use cases are only limited by how powerful the AI is