"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

There's so much more we could do.

They should join the web browser rebel alliance since there is no alternative to Chrome.

Open source ai is doing well. Mozilla integrating the models directly into it's browser doesn't really do anything to help them.

has Mozilla considered spending their limited resources working on their web browser

'Rebel Alliance' for Open Source: Good, I'm with you.

AI: Nope.

Sounds like the Mozilla CEO has joined the AI evangelism war on the side of the evangelists.

“I don't want seven AGIs, one for every single one of the big companies. I want seven billion AGIs,” Krikorian says, referring to artificial general intelligence. “I want us to each have an AGI that's truly on our side, not on someone else's side.”

No wonder he's doing Star Wars comparisons, because this is a fantasy thing that the world's billionaires can't figure out how to build.

The report contains clues about how Mozilla might be planning to sustain itself if the revenue streams from Firefox dry up. “You shouldn't be surprised if in a few months you see that we've released our own harness,” Krikorian tells TIME.

Because there aren't enough of those, and because Mozilla will definitely entice people to pay money to them because... Why?

Open models are one of the few forces keeping AI from becoming an oligopoly: Without them, a handful of companies would control the technology, prices, and the rules of what users are allowed to do. Competition from open models is already pushing the entire industry to innovate faster and charge less. 💪😎✌️

Mozilla wants to do everything except make Firefox succeed, it seems.

What I remember from the movies is that the rebel alliance is being hunted to extinction unless they get lucky and one shot the bad guy.

What a shame it would be if the trend continued towards powerful free and local models that can run on hardware people already own. Then all the poor companies trying to crash the economy and rent their models to everyone at exorbitant prices along with all the data centers being built might go bankrupt.

Thing being, even the cheap models don't offer good value for money. Once the big players run out of money, the whole thing will collapse.

You son of a bitch I'm in.

Even open source AI used for needless purposes contributes to wasteful resource usage that harms the environment just as much.

at this rate Mozilla will be AI-only browser eventually, feeding all the data to GOOGLE.

according to Raffi Krikorian, Mozilla’s chief technology officer, “I want us to each have an AGI that's truly on our side, not on someone else's side.”

Therein lies the my issue with all these companies forcing AI into every crevice of our lives, They want.

No.

Whats funny is I think there should be good local ai but its still something that needs development and work. It makes no sense to me to be in the browser. I see this again akin to graphics. I would like to see an os that has one that is strictly about the os. After installation maybe you could have additional modules to expand its scope or agents where it acts as a central interface. A kind of head butler.

Healthy open ecosystems need multiple contributors.