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

submitted 11 months ago by cloudless@lemmy.cafe to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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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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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nooooo

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There is already some built into it which is genuinely useful, for example the local translation engine based on project Bergamot, and currently being tested in Firefox Nightly is the ability to generate an image alt-text, which is great for accessibility.

AI isn't just about the mainstream generative stuff, it can have some privacy benefits when executed locally.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Generating alt texts is generative AI, but generative AI isn't inherently bad.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Why is this being added to the browser and not as an extension? At the very least, I would assume it's pretty easy to turn off; but, this looks like feature creep causing the browser to bloat up again.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

Gross. What do I need AI in browser for

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago

Does it utilize the NPU? Can you customize the features at all? I wouldn't want it erroneously using vast chunks of my CPU for marginal benefit.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That’s a convoluted way to say “Firefox browser will have AI features”. This headline looks like they’re visiting the browser manufacturing line and seeing a new set of sprockets ready to be installed in the thingamabob.

[–] cloudless@lemmy.cafe 3 points 11 months ago

They are literally interviewing the makers of Firefox, and getting insights outside of Firefox's press release. I find the title appropriate for the content.

[–] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Good use of AI

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz -5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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 14 points 11 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.