• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    There was doom and gloom about Mozilla saying they wanted to integrate ‘AI’ into Firexox, but to me, privacy respecting locally run translation seems like a great usecase. I guess people were only reading the headline and jumped to the conclusion Mozilla wanted a chatbot.

    Features like this, better text to speech, audio descriptions for images, maybe something to find alternate sources covering the same news, spotting fake reviews, etc all seem like worthwhile developments.

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      7 months ago

      They have been working on the local translation stuff since 2019, long before they started talking about AI recently

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        7 months ago

        True, but a lot of stuff that’s now called ‘AI’ wouldn’t have been branded as such a few years ago. A lot of the ‘AI’ we’re seeing now isn’t actually new tech.