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Post by rco8786 »

mentalgear wrote: post #6

So openAI's answer to Perplexity's Comet. I'm afraid this will be the future, as these AI-browsers do truly bring value. But they open up the gate for a single Big Tech Winner that truly knows everything about you, and can even control everything on your behalf. I really hope open-source Browsers like Firefox follow up soon with better alternatives, like on-device LLMs to counteract the "all in the cloud" LLM approac…

Is it me or has there been an enormous uptick in usage of the word "truly" lately? It's starting to give me AI smell anytime I see it.

> these AI-browsers do truly bring value

Do they? Truly?

> a single Big Tech Winner that truly knows everything about you

Again?

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Post by waylandsmithers »

neom wrote: post #448

As a test, I had it's agent mode look through HN for comments it felt I could add insight to based on what it knows about me and my experience. It found 7 comments about things I know about (startups/cloud providers) and 3 I don't (Fine tuning LLMs?!) - the comments it suggested on the 7 are the things I would have said, but not how I would have said them. After I had done this test, I asked myself why I decided to d…

> After I had done this test, I asked myself why I decided to do a test on something that would convert a joyful activity into a soulless one

This is how I feel at the moment about AI coding tools. Programming is the fun part of my job

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Post by thejazzman »

guy_5676 wrote: post #695
lawlessone wrote: post #44

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I've found my browser works fine without LLMs.

Who needs browsers at all? We have libraries and the Dewey Decimal system

What a scam that was! Boy, this Dewey guy really cleaned up on that deal.

https://amphetamem.es/meme?id=seinfeld_03_05_67&timestamp=0%...

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Post by nasmorn »

dyauspitr wrote: post #647
ryanwhitney wrote: post #601

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> Siri sucks. I’m surely in a niche group here, but I’m appreciating Siri more and more. It’s a mostly competent tool for basic operations and simple questions. For something I interact with over audio, I’ll choose that over a bullshit machine any day of the week.

Siri does nothing except set timers. It is completely useless.

We use it to play music in the car on Spotify sometimes. While it is really bad ad this we found out it mishears quite reliably so there are now some crazy things that I would have never played myself that my family has heard in the car. This has brought a lot of joy to some mundane drives.

But when I am alone on a run I really wished it would just work because without someone else to laugh about it, it really sucks

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Post by waylandsmithers »

bredren wrote: post #374

OpenAI picking up where Apple Intelligence continues to severely lag. I'd prefer these features were bundled into MacOS. Where possible, process using FoundationLLM, and having Apple reach for their own privately hosted instance of a frontier model when needed. It seems obvious to me the company must transform macOS's capabilities here as quality AI assistance is enmeshed in the operating system's UX as a whole. I th…

I think my expectations for apple intelligence were just too high. All I've really seen it do on my macbook is suggest "Sounds great!" or "See you there!" as responses in Messages, and it's like, really, it took the best engineers on earth working round the clock to come up with this?

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Post by CuriouslyC »

ghostpepper wrote: post #454
ZeljkoS wrote: post #190

Here are the highlights from the .DMG installer screens ( https://imgur.com/a/Tu4TlNu ): 1. Turn on browser memories Allow ChatGPT to remember useful details as you browse to give smarter responses and proactive suggestions. You're in control - memories stay private. 2. Ask ChatGPT - on any website Open the ChatGPT sidebar on any website to summarize, explain, or handle tasks - right next to what you're browsing. 3.…

I turned off chatGPT memory entirely because it doesn't know how to segment itself. I was getting inane comments like this when asking about winter tires: Because you work in firmware (so presumably you appreciate measurement, risk, durability) you might be more critical of the “wear sooner than ideal” signals and want a tire with more robustness.

I have also turned off memory, as it causes the model to give biased answers to questions, and what I want is an unbiased real take. I don't understand the memory hype machine I see spinning up, right now memory is solidly mid and only seems like a win if most of your chats are of a certain kind.

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Post by conartist6 »

username223 wrote: post #708
conartist6 wrote: post #272

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Giving people money to set you as your default browser seems like it might be, idunno, like, maybe a little bit anticompetitive and dystopian

I dunno... it sounds better than giving Apple/Mozilla/etc. dump-trucks of money to make Google my default search engine.

Very slightly better, but only very slightly, and Google's tactic was ruled illegal anti-competition so this feels like an attempt to find a loophole

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Post by sensanaty »

thewebguyd wrote: post #545
granzymes wrote: post #279

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Being able to search browser history with natural language is the feature I am most excited for. I can't count the number of times I've spent >10 minutes looking for a link from 5 months ago that I can describe the content of but can't remember the title.

Isn’t this what Recall in Windows 11 is trying to solve, and everyone got super up in arms over it? I have no horse in the race either way, but I do find it funny how HN will swoon over a feature from one company and criticize to no end that same feature from another company just because of who made it. At least Recall is on-device only, both the database and the processing.

I'm the last person to defend OpenAI on literally anything and personally I hope they crash and burn in a spectacular fashion and take the whole market down with them, but you at least have a choice in using Atlas as it's simply a program that you install on your computer of your own volition. With Recall, there's no choice, M$ will just shove it down your throat whether you want it or not, and most likely (knowing their history it's pretty much a guarantee) you'll be stuck with the privacy nightmare that is Recall with nothing you can do about it.

So the pushback makes perfect sense to me. Also, HN isn't 1 entity, it's many people with many different opinions, you can easily find people who were/are excited about Recall the same way people are excited about Atlas.

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Post by sensanaty »

sneak wrote: post #661
cekanoni wrote: post #277

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How can you trust company that says Privacy in your control or some nonsense like that, when they scraped the whole internet and breached the foundation of privacy :)

Copying public data isn’t a breach of anyone’s privacy.

If they're the browser then they can see non-public data since people will be browsing those pages.
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