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Comment How much more "AI" do we need in Firefox? (Score 1) 42

This seems rather redundant with the AI Sidebar feature they already have. I can interact with a chatbot whenever I want with their existing tool. I guess the difference here is the AI will be watching the browsing to assist you further? Funny how we went to fearing third-party cookies and cross-site scripting to asking a third-party to shoulder surf while we use the Internet.

Also curious what Mozilla as a company is going to focus on after this. Doesn't seem like there is much more AI they can distract themselves with beyond making the browser completely chatbot voice-controlled so you have to verbally ask the computer to see sites.

Comment What? (Score 1) 111

Developers of Aldol blamed poor lighting and calibration issues for the collapse, saying the robot's stereo cameras are sensitive to light and the hall was dark.

Wouldn't sensitive cameras be what you want in the case of navigating an environment in low lighting?
Also, have they heard of LiDAR?

Comment Banks dogfooding their own shit customer security. (Score 3, Interesting) 181

...grabbed their cell phones to request a security token for the company's VPN, waited for that token to arrive...

Sounds like they are waiting for a SMS to arrive with a security code for the login session, which is both slower and not secure (venerable to SIM-jacking) compared to a TOTP/HOTP code they would be able to get instantly from a authentication app.

Comment Re:Tip of the iceberg. (Score 2) 55

And whilst they're not as accurate as a human being even the free "consumer grade" ones like Google Translate are generally good enough to get the point across.

The whole "good enough" excuse is a balancing of quality vs. cost dynamic for companies. What is the angle here? The summary seems to suggest SUMO's translators are volunteers. Mozilla isn't saving money by lowering staffing as so many tech firms are fond of doing atm. They may be rolling out documentation translations faster, but was there some big issue with work being behind to begin with?

Comment Re:This will end badly (Score 2) 11

Apple definitely kept a lot of average people from shooting themselves in the foot

Google has allowed Android phone owners to install any app that they want for years now, without even having to install some special "app store" to get them. I haven't heard of any large-scale problem with Android phone owners being ruined by side-loaded apps. The most common vectors have been malicious apps they got from the Google Play Store, and phishing of the user themselves for financial info, not pilfered with some spy app. The same as people on the Apple iPhone side.

Comment Re:What do they care? (Score 4, Insightful) 44

...using an AI agent it means they can't monetize with advertisements because the AI is never going to click such

The third-party AI might also do a better job (from the customer's perspective) depending on the data it has vs. Alexa, because the third-party AI can make buying decisions based solely on the information it has on the user. As someone else mentioned, the third-party AI wont favor brands/items/sellers Amazon is promoting.

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