AI in the Browser

Full Title

AI is getting added to everything, including the Web Browser, which will have some severe unanticipated downside for the user.

Author: Tom Jones 2024-09-21

Context

Google has been trying to make web apps, that are downloaded from web sites, as attractive and useful as native apps, that are downloaded from the app store. Now that AI is getting added to

Problems

Cycle Stealing

Optimization of web sites has long included pushing more of the web site code into JavaScript which runs on the browser both to make the site more responsive as well as to reduce the compute load on the server. For the point of view of the web server, cycles on the browser are free compute resources.