Try Orbit by Mozilla: a new AI productivity tool
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Hi folks, We’ve got something exciting to share first with our community! Introducing our beta version of Orbit by Mozilla, now available as a Firefox add-on. This is a new AI tool to help summarize emails, docs, articles, and even video transcripts. Designed to boost productivity, Orbit provides co...

Orbit is an LLM addon/extension for Firefox that runs on the Mistral 7B model. It can summarize a given webpage, YouTube videos and so on. You can ask it questions about stuff that’s on the page. It is very privacy friendly and does not require any account to sign up.

I personally tried it, and found it to be incredibly useful! I think this is going to be one of my long term addons along with uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes and so on. I would highly recommend checking this out!

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    3 months ago

    I’m just glad it’s an add on/extension. A lot of the crap baked into browsers these days is just bloat nobody wants or uses.

  • macattack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    203·
    3 months ago

    Probably not for me as I’m not interested in a summarizing tool, but I’m not against AI in general.

    OAN, I think over time, the community will see that AI was a bubble, but in the same way that the internet was a bubble back in the day.

    • UraniumBlazer@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      82·
      3 months ago

      OAN, I think over time, the community will see that AI was a bubble, but in the same way that the internet was a bubble back in the day.

      Surprised to see this opinion on Lemmy haha. Yep, totally agree with ya here!

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        3 months ago

        Everyone wants a Her style personal assistant — as in one that is personal-context aware, can simplify, and generally enrich their lives (not for emotional support) — but if most people knew how unintelligent AI is, how spectacularly it fails, and how dangerous it is to integrate it into information systems and (especially) give it any ability to act … Literally nobody would want to give it access to all their data, or use it beyond an advisory role.

        • Pyotr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          3 months ago

          Perhaps I’m a luddite - but I unequivocally do not want an assistant like that. I dislike even the basic commands of google assistant. I can do the tasks better and faster than than the assistant can.

  • tb_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    3 months ago

    The general tone in this thread seems so very different from when “Mozilla is working on AI” was first announced

    • Railcar8095@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago
      1. I don’t think this is the proper channel for feedback.
      2. Rude
      3. Fuck you. This is an optional extension for those who want to try. Do you want the final version of a piece of free software? Then you can go lie in a ditch because hopefully it will continue to evolved for years. It’s astonishing the entitlement of some people.
      4. Good local LLM that can run on most hardware is a very interesting project. Usually you need at least a GPU to get it to run. The fact that is only summarizing might be because it this.