Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox
Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox
Memo details layoffs, "strategic corrections," and a desire for "trustworthy" AI.
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The paradox of tech right now "we are going to build the most complex technology known to man into our product in the next 12 months. Are we hiring record numbers of people to get it done? No. We fired a bunch of people and everyone else will just have to be extremely hardcore."
They're refocusing on Firefox and continuing the ai stuff they were already doing. They fireded people who were working on fediverse and metaverse platforms. Did you even read the article?
Ugh? It's far from complex
Okay Mr. Robot.
It's literally a marketing term for a bunch of structured algorithms at this stage - not some sentient witchcraft
It's definitely not sentient but to call it simple is definitely inaccurate.
I guess the point is that its complexity is overrated, but still definitely not 'simple'.
... It is simple, the idea exists since 40y ago, it's just being done at scale
Edit: make it 80 actually