JohnPDickerson

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by JohnPDickerson 2mo ago
Author here. The reason I joined the Mozilla ecosystem, and the reason I want to help Mozilla's mission succeed in the era of AI, is identical to the reason I supported Mozilla in my teens and college years during the early browser wa
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by JohnPDickerson 5mo ago
Handy is an awesome project, highly recommended - many of our engineers and PMs use it! CJ, Handy's creator, recently joined us as a Builder in Residence at Mozilla.ai. So for those interested in deploying a more raw/lightweight
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by JohnPDickerson 6mo ago
Common question, thanks for asking! We’re a public benefit corporation spun out from, and primarily owned by, the Mozilla Foundation. We're focused on democratizing access to AI tech, on enabling non-AI experts to benefit from and con
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by JohnPDickerson 10mo ago
> I really think Mozilla and Firefox have a role to play in the AI landscape that's shaping up. Chiming in here as a Mozillian focused on AI not specifically related to Firefox - I agree! Just a heads up that a separate public be
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by JohnPDickerson 1y ago
Good feedback. Some of this is intentional - as an independent and growing ~20-person company, we're able to operate more quickly than the larger Mozilla organizations, and we're purposefully distancing ourselves from the associa
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by JohnPDickerson 1y ago
Common question, thanks for asking! We’re a public benefit corporation focused on democratizing access to AI tech, on enabling non-AI experts to benefit from and control their own AI tools, and on empowering the open source AI ecosystem.
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by JohnPDickerson 4y ago
Oh, you're right! Good catch, I agree that the numbers are accurately reflected as you had originally written them. Thanks again for compiling all this information, really helpful service to the broad community.
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by JohnPDickerson 4y ago
Jeff, thanks so much for putting that stipend information together; I'm sure your list has started discussions amongst students and amongst faculty at many institutions. The variance in stipends was eye-opening to me, and clearly they
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by JohnPDickerson 6y ago
Folks interested in this kind of work should check out an upcoming ICLR paper, "LowKey: Leveraging Adversarial Attacks to Protect Social Media Users from Facial Recognition", from Tom Goldstein's group at Maryland. Similar pi