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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/
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It's not just naming, but grouping as well. If you have 200 tabs and don't want to spend too much time on it, this can be very helpful.
How long until malicious pages fool this into placing themselves into, say, a banking tab group?
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.
The first two are seemingly of questionable utility, but the 3rd feature (Help me write) is actually quite interesting. As of late, most of my public written responses (bar HN) have had some sort of collaboration with ChatGPT, and I've often wondered about a native browser integration. For those of us who struggle with communication, this is an exciting prospect!
Ironically, the message "I'm interested in this place - do you allow dogs?" is a piece of decent business writing on its own and way better than anything I saw while trying to sublet a room. I would rather see AI suggest phrases like that rather than their proposed answer. Now that I think about it, a Clippy that interviews you about needs and follows your browsing session to highlight stuff you like / don't like and…
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Desktop users are not going to be happy about a surprise local model running in the background, even a small quantized one.
I'm curious, why do you think that?
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How long until malicious pages fool this into placing themselves into, say, a banking tab group?
How would that affect the end user except they go into the banking tab group and go "Huh. This isn't a banking website" and close it?
AI theme generation really seems like a solution looking for a problem
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Desktop users are not going to be happy about a surprise local model running in the background, even a small quantized one.
I'm curious, why do you think that?
It produces a considerable amount of heat unless it's run on an NPU, which basically doesn't happen on desktops at the moment.
Hot loading/unloading it can be slow even on an SSD.
Users often multitask with chrome in the background, and I think many would be very displeased to find Chrome bogging down their computer for reasons they may not be aware of.
Theoretically Google could run a very small (less than 2B?) LLM with very fast quantization, and maybe even work out how to use desktop NPUs, but that would be one heck of an engineering feat to deploy on the scale of Chrome.
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
> "auto-submit a captcha" we have come full circle
The last thing I want is further telemetry from Chrome to Google. I'm so glad I switched to Firefox. This should be an API, not a browser integration.