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They have the right idea with local AI, but I assume this other kind of local is going to be an unfortunate barrier to a number and diversity of capable people.
The word has more than one meaning.
If you're not even willing to do two travel days, why are you even participating in a 3-month accelerator? Doesn't sound like you want that kind of commitment.
Why stop there? They should expand it to blockchain, 3d printing, VR and quantum computing to make sure it really tickles the executives' imagination...
But I don't understand why people think AI can be lumped into the same category as VR/3D printing/blockchain/etc. It's clearly going to change the world, and in 200 years we'll look back on it the same way we saw the invention of electricity. (You know, assuming we're still around as a species).
To me, it's so weird to watch people dunk on AI for hallucinating a bit or because some CEOs hack it into their product in unfulfilling ways. Look how bad image generation was just a year ago (fuzzy and mushy), and now we have movie clips that are almost studio quality (but generated in minutes).
It's impressive, but these days mostly hype
ML is an important component of AI, but it's not a simple "rebrand". I get that it's easy to think of it as marketing hype, because there's a lot of people (the same people who got on the blockchain bandwagon) shilling crap. But what we're seeing isn't overhyped; it's severely underhyped.
Easy: Remember OpenAIs claims regarding the bar exam and did you read the news the last couple of days how it was all bollocks?
Great... it's another hype. It's "just" statistics, very impressive, but as soon as it will run out of training data, it will plateau... and it will run out by GPT-5 or GPT-6 :)
Then it can learn from its predecessor's hallucinations maybe :D
> But what we're seeing isn't overhyped; it's severely underhyped.
Let's agree to disagree here
It's just not the holy grail, is all I am saying
It was deemed far too much work to be viable at this point seening as we would still need to employ someone to double check the translations anyway so the project was canned.
You can now write a non-fiction book with a subject matter expert and an editor, skipping the ghost writer. Saves one whole salary, right? No, because it’ll take a lot more time from both the SME and editor to reach the same quality level as before. You can dial the quality down a little—worse presentation of material, more repetition, more inaccuracies—and save some money, which was harder to reliably do before, so there’s that I guess, but now we’re back at “it saves money if you’re trying to make junk”.
But there is too much hype these days.
IMO they should first focus on being a good cross platform browser that works well on desktop arm before doing anything else.
I also have a bizarre problem where any Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Brave, Edge) are extremely slow to load any page since upgrading to Sonoma, where Firefox or Safari are near-instant - like taking 60 seconds to even start DNS lookup. After a couple of minutes it will eventually fully load a page. I've seen other people mention the same issue online, but no fixes. I have spent hours trying to debug and track down problems for that too.
It's discouraging how much it feels like every software tool I use on every device has gone to shit, especially things as fundamental as a web browser.
Firefox like most independent browsers is also reliant on search engine revenues. If AI threatens search, then it also threatens Mozilla.
Plus Chrome, Brave, Safari, and Edge are already doing the same kinds of research, for the same reasons.
Yes!
The translation engine for Firefox rocks!
Hmph and bah humbug.
Sadly, the other partner wound down last year. The Shuttleworth Foundation - funded by Mark - was super critical for us. they provided almost $1m in funding.
Both provided contacts for legal, marketing, etc.
I wish we had more of these initiatives which weren't so focused on profit.