AI marketing hype is coming for your favorite gadgets
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It's fine, I'll pay with AI infused money which is so much more valuable than regular money. Looks and feels the same though but so much more valuable. So I can pay less of it.
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I was completely wrong about Logitech’s software. They did find a way to make it worse.
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Every feature that has required its own button on peripherals has always succeeded forever
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This is a dead dead horse, but I still resent the way anything at all with a whiff of machine learning is now an "AI "product.
On reading the headline, I couldn't think of a good use in a mouse - predictive pointer movement or something? Not to say there's no use case, and if I think of accessibility I could probably get somewhere, just that nothing came to mind. Somehow the reality is even dumber than that.
On reading the headline, I couldn't think of a good use in a mouse - predictive pointer movement or something? Not to say there's no use case, and if I think of accessibility I could probably get somewhere, just that nothing came to mind. Somehow the reality is even dumber than that.
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One of the bigwigs at work asked me if we could integrate AI into our software. I think he wanted a marketing bullet point.
I asked him, to what end?
He had no answer. The MBAs are burning millions of man-hours to try and shove a solution in search of a problem into every product that they can get their mitts on.
Adding crap like this into consumer products only exposes more attack surface for bad actors and further dehumanizes actual people.
I asked him, to what end?
He had no answer. The MBAs are burning millions of man-hours to try and shove a solution in search of a problem into every product that they can get their mitts on.
Adding crap like this into consumer products only exposes more attack surface for bad actors and further dehumanizes actual people.
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So, your keyboard and mouse can both have a button dedicated to opening an AI prompt? Seems... redundant.
Maybe this is just the awkward transition phase to Star Trek style computers with only touchscreen and voice input.
Maybe this is just the awkward transition phase to Star Trek style computers with only touchscreen and voice input.
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Seems companies are just dusting off the play books from the mid-90's. Doing a search/replace with the words "internet" and "AI". And we all know how that turned out for the vast majority of companies (and investors) in that bubble.
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Logitech's idiotic AI-thingy is always-on, always running in the background even if you're not using it and if you have no device with an AI-button. Options+ doesn't have any way of disabling it and Logitech's rep literally said "we might consider" adding the ability to disable it -- in other words, not happening.
If you don't want a useless background service running, you have kill Options+ and the AI-thing, then go to
and edit the
file there and add the following in there:
If you don't want a useless background service running, you have kill Options+ and the AI-thing, then go to
Code:
C:\Program Files\LogiOptionsPlus
Code:
app_permissions.json
JSON:
"aipromptbuilder": {
"value": false
}
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I have a serious question about this statement from the article:
"Logitech's rep declined to comment on why the M650 didn't have a button south of its scroll wheel."
Is that true? Did the rep actually decline to comment (an active refusal process of deciding not to comment) or did the rep just not answer? I see this kind of phrasing used often and in some cases, the difference actually matters. (I'm not arguing that it's so important here, but I am sensitive to phrasing like this and am curious.)
"Logitech's rep declined to comment on why the M650 didn't have a button south of its scroll wheel."
Is that true? Did the rep actually decline to comment (an active refusal process of deciding not to comment) or did the rep just not answer? I see this kind of phrasing used often and in some cases, the difference actually matters. (I'm not arguing that it's so important here, but I am sensitive to phrasing like this and am curious.)
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AI is far more useful than Web3, I'll give them that. Still most of these seem pointless, under-baked and/or premature. Hopefully most of the stupid blows over before I have to make another major device purchase.
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Will I get AI-enabled toilet paper the next time that I go to restock?
This reminds me of the Three Body Problem book series, where a cryogenically frozen character wakes up and discovers that cigarette boxes play personalized ads. Not sure if that scene will make it into the Netflix version.
This reminds me of the Three Body Problem book series, where a cryogenically frozen character wakes up and discovers that cigarette boxes play personalized ads. Not sure if that scene will make it into the Netflix version.
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Marketeers constantly trying to wedge the latest buzzword in everywhere has always been annoying, but this is just .... teeth-grindingly annoying. Just stop already. What's next? AI tampons?
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To be honest, I wouldn't mind AI in my toaster as it can never get it quite right on a consistent basis.
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"You agree that all clicks, searches, and prompts become the property of Logitech and ChatGPT and may be shared with our vendors"
Made up, but its coming to that.
Made up, but its coming to that.
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I guess everyone better buy up the existing tech that isn't bloated with AI garbage now before that's all you're allowed to buy.
And no, you can't remap the copilot button on keyboards. (I'm sure someone will find a way but there is no official way).
And no, you can't remap the copilot button on keyboards. (I'm sure someone will find a way but there is no official way).
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Feels like it's accelerating. "Next years AI" will arrive this July, I'm sure of it.
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Another reminder of why we have a dedicated PC, pulled from the discard pile and kept off the network, for running Logitech software when a dongle needs to be re-paired with something.
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I am going to avoid rampant AI (which consumes massive amounts of power) for as long as I can.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ai-boom-could-use-a-shocking-amount-of-electricity/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ai-boom-could-use-a-shocking-amount-of-electricity/
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I need to make an nft, AI, self driving, gaming buttplug.
I'm sure I could fit a few more trends and buzzwords in there.
I'm sure I could fit a few more trends and buzzwords in there.
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The thing is LLMs actually do have a lot of potential but everyone seems intent on using it in the dumbest way possible. The only people who seem to have really realized benefits from this so far are call centres. There's this tendency to just throw chatbots at everything when in reality what you should really be asking is "is my AI better at reviewing resumes" or "is AI actually better at sales than us".
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Thanks, Logitech, I would feel less guilty when buying a high-quality knockoff that has no AI on it.
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It's more than that, just because AI can actually do a lot of things really well. Blockchain was never the superior option for any application, it was entirely built on baseless hype.
Now, why you'd need AI headphones or a special button to open ChatGPT with your mouse, who knows. But there's something of substance in there.
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When the bubble pops things will be epic.
I am both sad and not sad. Had LLMs been left alone by big tech, things might've been different.
I am both sad and not sad. Had LLMs been left alone by big tech, things might've been different.
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It's the new "megahertz race". 386, 486, i5, i7, i9, Apple phone, Samsung phone.
Just something they can use to hopefully generate sales. "More is better".
Just something they can use to hopefully generate sales. "More is better".
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Thing is, there really is space in current technology for special-purpose processor cores. But why not something that’s actually useful, like high-speed, high-precision parallel numerical computation?
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If Logitech put AI in all their products, I foresee a niche business stocking up on older products and selling them.
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