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> Mozilla will focus on bringing “trustworthy AI into Firefox.” I hope they will give us ability to turn it off. Or at least LibreWolf will turn it off / remove it. I’d rather they add optional small subscription fee to support themselves if they have to than add AI or some other questionable functionalities.
> I hope they will give us ability to turn it off. I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
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That certainly wasn't Microsoft, they're still full on the "CoPilot" hype train, launching a confusing spectrum of different services all under the same name and all before they're actually ready
This assumes they'll ever actually be ready. I'm pretty sure at this point the "reliability problem" is just not solvable.
If you can't guarantee the output of the llm how can you ever expect this to always work the same? How can you even test it? It may test out ok 99 times but on test #100 it fails. Any hallucination breaks it or, even worse, produces a confident sounding wrong output. Is that the reliability problem you're talking about?
The new CEO, Laura Chambers, is an MBA and a former McKinsey consultant ([1]). I would not hold my breath about the future of Firefox. 1. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chamberslaura/details/experience...
The new CEO, Laura Chambers, is an MBA and a former McKinsey consultant ([1]). I would not hold my breath about the future of Firefox. 1. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chamberslaura/details/experience...
When I was in college, McKinsey was one of the name-brand, prestigious places students wanted to go and work after graduation. Now it seems to be the laughing stock. What happened?
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> You don’t know anyone who uses an iPhone to browse the web? What you write as a joke is in my opinion not one: when I consider the department hallway in the office where I work at (not tech sector), you will, I think, only find 2 iPhone owners among about 25 people. One of these iPhone owners is the boss, and the other one is a programmer who vocal about not liking Android. So, depending on your surroundings, it is…
You’re in an emerging market I’d guess. iPhones make up 90%+ of the high value mobile user market.
My understanding is that iPhone usage varies wildly between regions of the US. I know that when I go to some areas, I see them everywhere and in other areas, almost never.
Can they get rid of AI? Blockchain was annoying trend but it wasn't wrecking products I actually used.
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wow you are right, they have 3,5%. I thought they had like 25-30%. Safari had 18% apparently, I know 0 people who use Safari
> wow you are right, they have 3,5% It depends a lot on the country. In Germany, Firefox' market share is larger since Firefox is viewed as the browser that takes the users' privacy concerns (e.g. tracking, DRM (there still exists Firefox EME-free), ..) most seriously. According to > https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/germ... Firefox' market share is about 18.6 % among the desktop users in German…
They even have ads on the subway here
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wow you are right, they have 3,5%. I thought they had like 25-30%. Safari had 18% apparently, I know 0 people who use Safari
You don’t know anyone who uses an iPhone to browse the web? Pretty sure that is where that Safari market share comes from.
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> You don’t know anyone who uses an iPhone to browse the web? What you write as a joke is in my opinion not one: when I consider the department hallway in the office where I work at (not tech sector), you will, I think, only find 2 iPhone owners among about 25 people. One of these iPhone owners is the boss, and the other one is a programmer who vocal about not liking Android. So, depending on your surroundings, it is…
You’re in an emerging market I’d guess. iPhones make up 90%+ of the high value mobile user market.
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wow you are right, they have 3,5%. I thought they had like 25-30%. Safari had 18% apparently, I know 0 people who use Safari
iOS is about ~30% of the global mobile market and ~60% of the US market, and most iOS users use Safari as their browser. So you probably do know people who use Safari.