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Mozilla launches privacy friendly AI addon called "Orbit" (connect.mozilla.org)

submitted 2 months ago by UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Orbit is an LLM addon/extension for Firefox that runs on the Mistral 7B model. It can summarize a given webpage, YouTube videos and so on. You can ask it questions about stuff that's on the page. It is very privacy friendly and does not require any account to sign up.

I personally tried it, and found it to be incredibly useful! I think this is going to be one of my long term addons along with uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes and so on. I would highly recommend checking this out!

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[–] macattack@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Probably not for me as I'm not interested in a summarizing tool, but I'm not against AI in general.

OAN, I think over time, the community will see that AI was a bubble, but in the same way that the internet was a bubble back in the day.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In before is not just skips important details in its summarization, but also hallucinates its own interpretation of things into it.

Generally, don't call it "AI", don't overhype it, don't use it where it is bad in its function (like telling you "facts"), don't shove it into everything. I bet 80+ percent of all "AI" energy consumption is wasted on completely useless and moronic tasks that have 0 value even on a personal level.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

"The term "AI" has been in use since 1956 for a wide range of computer science techniques. LLMs most certainly qualify as AI. You may be thinking of the science-fiction kind of "artificial people" AI, which is a subset of AI called Artificial General Intelligence when researchers want to be specific about that kind.

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[–] zecg@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

"we have a few potential paths to follow depending on the feedback we receive. Running a truly local LLM is one that we're researching at the moment"

In that case, fuck off with this bullshit until your research is done, that's some feedback for you.

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Ooh, I just tried it out and I can tell I'm going to love it - if not this specific plugin (the UI needs some work) then this general concept of a plugin.

I just popped over to Youtube and went to a ten-minute video of something or other, clicked the "summarize transcript" button, and within a few seconds I had a paragraph-long summary of what the whole video was about. There have been sooo many Youtube videos over the years that I've reluctantly watched with a constant "get to the point, man!" Frustration. Now I'll know if it's worth it.

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