MemoryCache is an experimental developer project to turn a local desktop environment into an on-device AI agent.
Well, unlike the last project, at least this one isn’t feeding data directly into the OpenAI corporation.
And unlike their very non-private, non-optional shopping extension, this one isn’t being force installed in all Firefox browsers.
This seems interesting.
The website does a bad job explaining what its current state actually is. Here’s the GitHub repo’s explanation:
Memory Cache is a project that allows you to save a webpage while you’re browsing in Firefox as a PDF, and save it to a synchronized folder that can be used in conjunction with privateGPT to augment a local language model.
So it’s just a way to get data from browser into privateGPT, which is:
PrivateGPT is a production-ready AI project that allows you to ask questions about your documents using the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), even in scenarios without an Internet connection. The project provides an API offering all the primitives required to build private, context-aware AI applications.
So basically something you can ask questions like “how much butter is needed for that recipe I saw last week?” and “what are the big trends across the news sites I’ve looked at recently?”. But eventually it’ll automatically summarize and data mine everything you look at to help you learn/explore.
Neat.
They should find a better fitting name than MemoryCache. Thanks for this comment.
I’ve been holding back my Mozilla funding because they are shirking work on Firefox and Servo
what in the actual fuck is this stupid shit and why is mozilla anywhere near it?
Open source project focused on giving people features they want but in a privacy and censorship resistant way. Classic Moz
- Who asked for this
- How is this, which is now baked into Firefox, private
That seems more aligned with their mission of fighting misinformation on the web. It looks like fake spot was an acquisition so hopefully efforts like the ones mentioned in this post better help aligne this with their other goals.
That observation is… Very tangential to my comment. I’m not sure if anyone asked Mozilla Corp to start violating people’s privacy, and purchasing data sets, in order to allegedly fight misinformation (while showing ads in the same place, of course)…
What I’m saying is Mozzilla, from my understanding, didn’t set out to do that but instead aqquired a business that was in order to use their services to fight misinformation. We should pressure them to reform the new part of business to better align with the rest of Mozzilla’s goals.
I’ve been trying. No luck so far. The only change to the Fakespot TOS was adding an allowance for private data to get sold to Mozilla…
but it is not a feature i want. not now, not ever. An inbuilt bullshit generator, now with less training and more bullshit is not something I ever asked for.
Training one of these ais requires huge datacenters, insanely huge datasets and millions of dollars in resources. And I’m supposed to believe one will be effectively trained by the pittance of data generated by browsing?
Yes but I like it, so where do we go from here?
You clearly are wrong and you should feel bad /s
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because “oh no Mozilla foundation bad” “they take google money”
If Mozilla doesn’t diversify, it will die! Throwing money at [current year buzzword] is the only solution
I thought they’re trying to reinvent in-memory key-val storage meant for caching.
Looks like Mozilla is inspired by Microsoft’s great naming skills
