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Mozilla's open source AI strategy

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Re: Mozilla's open source AI strategy

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That sounds admirable. But it doesn't sound like a fast browser.

Maybe, but I would argue that some of these features are genuinely useful and important. Take translation, for example. It's not great to have to send off a page that potentially contains identifying content to Google, but it is the easiest way to handle the matter. Firefox uses local AI to perform a decent translation relatively quickly, and I'd like them to work on improving that capability.

Re: Mozilla's open source AI strategy

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I guess replies on this thread are evident that Mozilla has lost much of the trust and goodwill it once enjoyed. Admittedly I am also very skeptical that Mozilla has the ability or genuine interest to make this work.

Re: Mozilla's open source AI strategy

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> Mozilla was born to change this, and Firefox succeeded beyond what most people thought possible — dropping Internet Explorer’s market share to 55% in just a few years and ushering in the Web 2.0 era.

Is this true? I can see from here[0] that its peak was 32%, as IE was really on the back burner but before Chrome had fully risen to dominance, but I wouldn't claim that it was responsible for IE's market share drop.

[0] https://mspoweruser.com/firefox-statistics

Re: Mozilla's open source AI strategy

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I think this is a good initiative. Having major software components be part of foundations, rather than single-vendor backed, is always a good thing. TBD if this succeeds or not, but I think they are doing a good thing here.

Re: Mozilla's open source AI strategy

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post #12

I guess replies on this thread are evident that Mozilla has lost much of the trust and goodwill it once enjoyed. Admittedly I am also very skeptical that Mozilla has the ability or genuine interest to make this work.

I'm hopeful. The open source AI ecosystem could benefit from large players like Mozilla making moves.

Re: Mozilla's open source AI strategy

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post #2

That sounds admirable. But it doesn't sound like a fast browser.

Maybe, but I would argue that some of these features are genuinely useful and important. Take translation, for example. It's not great to have to send off a page that potentially contains identifying content to Google, but it is the easiest way to handle the matter. Firefox uses local AI to perform a decent translation relatively quickly, and I'd like them to work on improving that capability.

Many things that are not browsers are genuinely useful and important, this alone doesn't mean Mozilla should be doing them.
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