Firefox: how to disable local AI

[wally333]

@Norm24

but if you know what you're looking for and input the search criteria correctly

Then I’m not doing much of a search, am I? It becomes like needing to call my attorney at Dewy, Cheatham & Howe and looking up their number in the “yellow pages”, remember those?

[Norm24]

@ericmarceau

But ... isn't the whole point of AI founded on the assumption that the questor does not know what are valid inputs or responses, and to expect that it's logic/knowledge should guide the questor towards the correct answer, not a corrupt or invalid answer.

Is that not so?

I can only address this from my own perspective.As far as AI being founded on the assumption because the searcher doesn't know what is valid is completely correct but from my perspective I'm old enough that when I was a child none of today's tech was available and yet I'm young enough to understand it as much as anyone who was born into it.What I see today is an generation of young people who know nothing but TV,computers and cell phones and AI is just another layer being added and from what I've seen so far AI very rarely gets it 100% correct and in many cases the details really do matter.It's a crutch that people don't need but gets used because it easier.Lots of people knew how find the correct answer without having to use AI and I for one simply refuse to use it.

[Norm24]

@wally333

Then I’m not doing much of a search, am I? It becomes like needing to call my attorney at Dewy, Cheatham & Howe and looking up their number in the “yellow pages”, remember those?

That's my point.And yet so many will use AI to find out a phone number that more than likely they should already know but because AI is so "easy" why bother even trying to remember something so simple or writing it down or looking it up in a online phone directory?And the crazy thing is AI could get something as simple as a phone number wrong and it has.

[wally333]

@Norm24

so many will use AI to find out a phone number that more than likely they should already know

I’ve had a “short term memory” issue all my life, its depth on testing is like 5-7 digits tops, when the US phone system went to 10 digit dialing I had to start carrying a list of important numbers in my wallet.

I’ll give most anything a fair trial to see if it can end up being useful to me, but as I said, Amazon’s Rufus AI has definitely cost them money in returns after its bad answers to my queries.