Assuming you meant harm. My assumption is that this is a locally CPU run model that is basically a glorified AOL chatbot. Again, I’m making some assumptions here.
But I really think the “AI” in this is just using a buzzword. When technically it is but it’s likely not what we think like a heavy LLM like ChatGPT. I really doubt Firefox is sending prompts to GPU farms and it’s likely just a simple model that runs on your local CPU. Likely optimized to answer browser related prompts or Firefox related prompts in general. I could be wrong. But I’d be surprised if it was at all outsourcing prompts to a GPU farm.
It’s a good example (if my assumptions are correct and Firefox is not braindead plugging in ChatGPT into the browser) actually of how AI application specific models can be very efficient and helpful. All the money we push into the “god AI” is really what people think of with “fuck AI”. China is working heavily in models like this.
For example. They just released a new application specific model that is extremely efficient at character recognition in images. Basically, if you took a picture of a page in a book it converts it to text that can be edited on a computer. It’s a case of an AI model actually improving compute efficiency when compared to other previous “non-ai” methods of computer vision.
But I digress. I think most of “fuck AI” could be summarized as “fuck capitalism” though. American investors are chasing a “worker replacement” model that they are failing at obtaining.
Don’t forgot environmental hard
Assuming you meant harm. My assumption is that this is a locally CPU run model that is basically a glorified AOL chatbot. Again, I’m making some assumptions here.
But I really think the “AI” in this is just using a buzzword. When technically it is but it’s likely not what we think like a heavy LLM like ChatGPT. I really doubt Firefox is sending prompts to GPU farms and it’s likely just a simple model that runs on your local CPU. Likely optimized to answer browser related prompts or Firefox related prompts in general. I could be wrong. But I’d be surprised if it was at all outsourcing prompts to a GPU farm.
It’s a good example (if my assumptions are correct and Firefox is not braindead plugging in ChatGPT into the browser) actually of how AI application specific models can be very efficient and helpful. All the money we push into the “god AI” is really what people think of with “fuck AI”. China is working heavily in models like this.
For example. They just released a new application specific model that is extremely efficient at character recognition in images. Basically, if you took a picture of a page in a book it converts it to text that can be edited on a computer. It’s a case of an AI model actually improving compute efficiency when compared to other previous “non-ai” methods of computer vision.
But I digress. I think most of “fuck AI” could be summarized as “fuck capitalism” though. American investors are chasing a “worker replacement” model that they are failing at obtaining.