Orbit is Mozilla's new AI assistant add-on for Firefox. It can summarise pages or video, and lets you ask questions about the content. Available in beta.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/orbit-by-mozilla-ai-assistant-firefox-extension?1
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@omgubuntu This part was chef's kiss --
"In conclusion, Orbit by Mozilla elevates information by providing a seamless and efficient way to revolutionise reading —only kidding, I don’t use AI to write articles."
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@killyourfm Hah, glad it amused someone other than me 🤭 I feel like I've all done of late is snark about low-effort GPT text, but… Man, it's everywhere! I half expect shop assistants to start parroting an "in conclusion" when telling me where the bread aisle is…
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@omgubuntu Hey, it's increasingly difficult not to be bludgeoned over the head with it. The snark is justified.
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IMHO most LLM generated essay-like texts read like the response to an assignment from a barely motivated student. Those texts technically fulfill eveything you'd expect, but there is no opinion/drive etc. that shines through the lines.
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Nevertheless, if this add-on would use a local model on your own machine, I'd consider it one of the rather useful applications of genAI as long as informed users know its limitations.
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@frafl @killyourfm That could be a very useful option for those who need, and would certainly jive with Mozilla's approach to AI (which is to not favour any specific model or service). Choice is never a bad thing.
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@omgubuntu will I need to roll my own fork of Firefox to avoid this stuff?
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@jcutting @omgubuntu nah, there's LibreWolf and many others. And isn't it an optional add-on?
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@omgubuntu Intersting I should try it out. I do like the AI sidebar, and it works well with hugginchat.
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Finally, an AI so smart that it can tell us that the wikipedia entry for "orbit" is about orbits.
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@kbal Haha, exactly. Why read the article to find out what it's about when you can read what an AI says it about instead. This push to "summarise" everything is a form of intellectual populism - preferring simplistic, superficial overview to a real, grounded understanding of a topic.
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@omgubuntu Good thing they focus on stuff that matters and not in, Oh I don't know, the browser being less and less effective
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@omgubuntu to someone at Mozilla Read the room!
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