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Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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Post by Hoefner »

marricks wrote: post #38
yanis_t wrote: post #32

Here are some better ideas from the top of my head: - summarise an article - find information on a given topic (free-form input text) - full voice control ("click that link", "read that article", "find this") - auto-submit a captcha

Seriously, their first example seems useless to most people. Naming a tab group??? That doesn't take any time, little thought, and who does that regularly? Summarizing an article seems like something everyone else can do OK. It's a huge avenue for bias (maybe that's why it's reasonably elided) but at least it's actually useful.

Maybe they are just testing AI with less used features first

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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Post by lxgr »

Communitivity wrote: post #45

I had a thought while reading this, and I don't know if this would be the case but... If it works by you hover over a link and Google gets the content in the browser behind the scenes and sends it to the mothership, where it's summarized and the summary then sent back to you to be displayed by the browser, then you may be accessing the linked page using your stored credentials, which give Google access to content the…

The same is true for translations in most browsers, right? At least I'm not aware of any browser that does it client-side/offline.

Edit: I stand corrected, Firefox does it offline! Thank you, Firefox team, this is awesome and I'll likely be using it more often now :)

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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Post by bane »

yanis_t wrote: post #32

Here are some better ideas from the top of my head: - summarise an article - find information on a given topic (free-form input text) - full voice control ("click that link", "read that article", "find this") - auto-submit a captcha

Take this tab collection, build a model or a RAG or whatever around them:

- Let me chat with a bot that knows the information from the collection

- Use the information to generate a summary

- Let me guide it in generating a well sourced article

Build a knowledge graph from the web

- Trace a source of information back to the originating point to help eliminate derivative blog spam

- Help moderate media bias and challenge echo chambers

Automatically recognize spam, scams, etc.

Let me describe something I need in text, return back links to shopping sites that sell that thing, if nobody has it, generate a 3d model, or more formal description of it and supply me with connections to let me farm it out to an additive manufacture, one-off makerspace place or something.

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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Post by comprev »

Communitivity wrote: post #45

I had a thought while reading this, and I don't know if this would be the case but... If it works by you hover over a link and Google gets the content in the browser behind the scenes and sends it to the mothership, where it's summarized and the summary then sent back to you to be displayed by the browser, then you may be accessing the linked page using your stored credentials, which give Google access to content the…

Sounds like a sneaky way to add your personal social media feed into their AI training data.

Edit: the suggestion that translation functionality already does this is valid though perhaps this expands the scope to data in the users default language?

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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Post by michaelmrose »

lxgr wrote: post #52
Communitivity wrote: post #45

I had a thought while reading this, and I don't know if this would be the case but... If it works by you hover over a link and Google gets the content in the browser behind the scenes and sends it to the mothership, where it's summarized and the summary then sent back to you to be displayed by the browser, then you may be accessing the linked page using your stored credentials, which give Google access to content the…

The same is true for translations in most browsers, right? At least I'm not aware of any browser that does it client-side/offline. Edit: I stand corrected, Firefox does it offline! Thank you, Firefox team, this is awesome and I'll likely be using it more often now :)

Firefox does it offline

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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Post by burkaman »

lxgr wrote: post #52
Communitivity wrote: post #45

I had a thought while reading this, and I don't know if this would be the case but... If it works by you hover over a link and Google gets the content in the browser behind the scenes and sends it to the mothership, where it's summarized and the summary then sent back to you to be displayed by the browser, then you may be accessing the linked page using your stored credentials, which give Google access to content the…

The same is true for translations in most browsers, right? At least I'm not aware of any browser that does it client-side/offline. Edit: I stand corrected, Firefox does it offline! Thank you, Firefox team, this is awesome and I'll likely be using it more often now :)

Firefox does it locally: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/translate/

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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Post by smusamashah »

I have a chrome extension [1] which lets you re-write your selected text, or look-it up via ChatGPT using your own custom prompts. Gives you more control on what kind of suggestions or answers you want basically.

Won't help with rearranging/grouping tabs, but can definitely help rephrase text in input fields or looking up info.

[1]: https://github.com/SMUsamaShah/LookupChatGPT

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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Post by asadotzler »

lxgr wrote: post #52
Communitivity wrote: post #45

I had a thought while reading this, and I don't know if this would be the case but... If it works by you hover over a link and Google gets the content in the browser behind the scenes and sends it to the mothership, where it's summarized and the summary then sent back to you to be displayed by the browser, then you may be accessing the linked page using your stored credentials, which give Google access to content the…

The same is true for translations in most browsers, right? At least I'm not aware of any browser that does it client-side/offline. Edit: I stand corrected, Firefox does it offline! Thank you, Firefox team, this is awesome and I'll likely be using it more often now :)

Firefox does local LLM based translation. I kicked that project off in 2022 and it shipped last year.

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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Post by host0 »

lxgr wrote: post #52
Communitivity wrote: post #45

I had a thought while reading this, and I don't know if this would be the case but... If it works by you hover over a link and Google gets the content in the browser behind the scenes and sends it to the mothership, where it's summarized and the summary then sent back to you to be displayed by the browser, then you may be accessing the linked page using your stored credentials, which give Google access to content the…

The same is true for translations in most browsers, right? At least I'm not aware of any browser that does it client-side/offline. Edit: I stand corrected, Firefox does it offline! Thank you, Firefox team, this is awesome and I'll likely be using it more often now :)

> Unlike other browsers that rely on cloud services, Firefox keeps your data safe on your device. There's no privacy risk of sending text to third parties for analysis because translation happens on your device, not externally.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation

Re: Chrome experimental AI features

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Post by danielbln »

worksonmine wrote: post #19

Anyone else have AI fatigue yet? I haven't even tried GPT and I'm already sick of AI this LLM that.

You haven't tried what would only be called science fiction 4 years ago but are tired of it? The hype machine is grating, but do try a Gen AI model. I use it for code, for ideation, for various NLP tasks. It's at the very least moderately useful in various tasks, and extremely useful in some.

edit: tone

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