MemoryCache, a Mozilla Innovation Project

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• Newtra@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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?”

  Neat.

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  • gunpachi@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They should find a better fitting name than MemoryCache. Thanks for this comment.

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  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Damn, this is EXACTLY the kind of project I’ve been seeking out and trying to figure out.

    I want all my browsing habits stored locally for AI to tell me what I saw, or to find something I read, or to dig up a citation I swear exists.

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• pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought they’re trying to reinvent in-memory key-val storage meant for caching.

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  • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think this name is very fitting, that was my first thought as well. Something like “browser assistant” would probably be a bit clearer.

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    • pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it’s gonna be another Pocket – stuff nobody wants that Mozilla keeps on pushing for no apparent reason.

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  • starman@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks like Mozilla is inspired by Microsoft’s great naming skills

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    • recapitated@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let’s call everything link, but each product misspelled in a unique way.

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• AtmaJnana@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Interesting project. Terrible name.

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  • recapitated@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Instead of saying “I googled it”, we can say “I memcached it” 🤔

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• themurphy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This thing sounds mostly like a way to explore the possibilities with AI. Which I’m all for.

  It sounds like it will learn from what you do in your browser, and as we are humans and therefore have alot of habits, then we might find this tool useful!

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• deur@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  what in the actual fuck is this stupid shit and why is mozilla anywhere near it?

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  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Open source project focused on giving people features they want but in a privacy and censorship resistant way. Classic Moz

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    • revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seriously, what’s with all the Mozilla hate on Lemmy? People bitch about almost everything they do. Sometimes it feels like, because it’s non-profit/open-source, people have this idealized vision of a monastery full of impoverished, but zealous, single-minded monks working feverishly and never deviating from a very tiny mission.

      Cards on the table, I remain an AI skeptic, but I also recognize that it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. I vastly prefer to see folks like Mozilla branching out into the space a little than to have them ignore it entirely and cede the space to corporate interests/advertisers.

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    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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?

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    • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      1. Who asked for this
      2. How is this, which is now baked into Firefox, private

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  • PlasticPigeon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What in the actual wow is this positive comment and how did this radiantly joyful kid even get onto our evil Fediverse?

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  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dunno, this seems like an interesting idea. What if I’ve read through a bunch of engineering papers, maybe I could use this as a sort of flashcard to double check my understanding.

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If Mozilla doesn’t diversify, it will die! Throwing money at [current year buzzword] is the only solution

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• BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We’re not breaking ground on AI innovation (in fact, we’re using an old, “deprecated” file format from a whole six months ago)

  The ggml format isn’t “deprecated” it’s completely dead. In those 6 months we’ve also seen 2-4x speedups on some systems, not to mention improved accuracy via kquants. I don’t know why they would build out a new extension with such an ancient dependency.

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• LWD@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• GTG3000@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This seems interesting.

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