They're going to try to put AI in everything.
Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not | Ars Technica
The "AI mouse" is just the start.
Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not | Ars Technica
The "AI mouse" is just the start.
That’s not an “AI” mouse, it’s a mouse that has a hotkey. Jesus fucking christ death to marketing
God, they're so fucking dumb.
This whole thing is a bunch of rich people trying to trick each other into buying into whatever grift is a new frontier to exploit
"A fool and his money are soon parted" is such a dumb saying. All rich guys are exactly this dumb and manage to stay rich.
That's because they crossed the event horizon into such incredible density of wealth it's impossible* to divest them of truly obscene amounts of wealth.
*Unless someone does the thing in Minecraft
Time is money. Life is basically just how we experience time. We're not killing the rich. We're taking away their money. By killing them. Look I don't make the rules.
Whoever started calling this LLM shit "AI" deserves to be shoved in a locker and then dropped into a canal. Techbro dweeb? Marketing ghoul? Some fuckwit internet cretin? I don't care. Get in the goddamned box.
I remember when article spinning was consider blackhat seo. Now it's a feature of major mouse brands? Lmao.
The biggest dickheads on the planet took over the tech companies. At least the nerds that originally built it actually cared about it like... Performing a function. None of these dickheads care if they destroy it. They're not builders, they're deconstructors.
At some point along the line software technology companies went from building things into "disrupting" things and that change was essentially the act of going from constructors to destructors.
From the blockchain to NFTs to the metaverse to AI.
I wonder what the next tech marketing fad buzzword will be.
They're going to combine it all into one thing and it's going to be a colossal waste of money and electricity but they're going to force it to be a thing for like 3 years until apple recoups 1% of the cost of developing the vision pro
this was the peak of product design in the early 00s. "look, we added a brightly colored button whose only purpose is to open up our unoptimized crapware that no one will ever intentionally use. that counts as a feature, and therefore a reason to purchase our product instead of the competitor's on next shelf"
Ngl there's something charming about these weird aborted versions of stuff that we figured out later, like this one is just "QR codes but stupider"
The guy who invented that thing also invented some "proprietary technology" to find bamboo fibers in ballots to prove that the 2020 election was stolen by China.
I want a mouse with a special button that generates deepdream images of thanos's cock
I want this for twitter replies
I dont think this LLM in everything trend is going to last very long. It's way too expensive for it to be in literally all consumer things. I can imagine it finding some success in B2B applications but who is going to pay Logitech to pay OpenAI $30 per million tokens? (Lambda for comparison is $0.20 per 1M requests if you pay the public rate)
There will be another massive financial recession when it finally dawns on them this shit was never gonna make any fucking money for anyone
What’s wild to me is that there’s continuing mass layoffs in tech in the middle of a huge AI bubble…when it finally bursts it’s going to be utterly brutal.
The crypto bubble lasted a long time, and unlike it, AI actually does something (not anything useful, or terribly well, but something), so I expect the bubble will last a while yet.
Throwing unlimited money and resources at the "make customer support chat bots 3% better" technology while the world burns.
Throwing unlimited money and burning fossil fuels to do that which makes the world burn faster.
I disagree, because I think what will happen is that these companies won’t use “AI” that is hosted in the cloud, but will instead send some minimally functional model to users that runs on their GPU, and later NPU (as those become common), and engage in screen recording and data collection about you and everything the mouse clicks on.
Disabling AI/data collection will disable any mouse technology or feature implemented after 1999, because AI or something.
At this point, I think AI stands for “absolute intrusion” when it comes to consumer products.
I don't really see why they need AI for that but yes I imagine companies will want to deploy AI on user equipment. These aren't going to be nearly as sophisticated or useful as what can run in the cloud though.
That’s sort of the point. It’s not really that the AI is useful, it’s that it’s the next big unregulated and misunderstood thing.
Companies are using the idea of “training models” to harvest user data well beyond any reasonable scope, so they can sell it.
The breadth of information that’s being openly collected under the guise of ‘AI’ was unconscionable 10 years ago, and even 5 years ago, folks would have been freaked out. Now businesses are pretending it’s just a run of the mill requirement to make their software work.
Case in point of how commodified our data is: Kaiser Permanente intentionally embedded tracking software in their site and now has to class the collected data as a user data breach. These products are likely from Google, Facebook, Adobe, Microsoft, or Salesforce. And they share the collected data, which can easily be de-anonymized to their advertising partners, who share it with their partners, until it winds up in the database of a data broker. This has been known to be an issue for awhile: Some Hospital Websites May Be Violating Privacy Rules By Sharing Data With Third-Party Trackers.
Anyway, sorry. Soapbox. I’ll put it away.
I love the future and I can't wait until every aspect of my life within distance of a smartphone or computer is harvested for the benefit of AI generated "content".
I have this grim vision of your phone ai summarizing your posting for the fbiai that will create a summary for the judgeai that will order your neighbors cousin drone striked based on the results of ai terrorist network modelling.
This is not a new phenomenon.
Anyone remember "Turbo" or "DTP"?
Yes, there was a Turbo-mouse and a DTP-mouse.
That's what I was thinking. The Bixby button lived and died (?) long before I had to start talking about LLMs at work.
I'm going from memory. This was before the World Wide Web, when we still used dialup and serial cables, in the early days of the Apple LaserWriter when Aldus PageMaker ruled the world.
If I recall, the mouse had a high resolution and extra buttons for things like copy and paste. Something about an ergonomic design comes to mind, but I'm not sure about that.
I think that Byte! Magazine featured a review, but again, I'm going from memory here, this is in the late 1980's when Desktop Publishing was the future of computing!
idk about wifi ones specifically but wasnt the issue with those more the fact that they saturated the market and anyone who wanted one either already had one or could basically just get one in perfect condition secondhand from someone who didn't use it much? I mean its kind of a gimmick, but not nearly as much as other kitchen gadgets
Maybe the wifi feature is a gimmick, but if I had to go live out of a van or something for a while, id just get an instant pot for all my cooking. Its efficient (in terms of water and electricity), does everything, and does it very very fast. I also imagine you could even cook while moving with it since its completely watertight when it's cooking.
yah, I've been kinda curious but I try to stay light on kitchen gadgets (I don't even have a microwave) so I haven't really tried one in earnest. Being able to cook beans from dry would be huge I think, especially in terms of going 
, so maybe I'll finally do it next time I see one used for cheap. Get rid of the useless air fryer someone gave me last year (I mean I have used it a couple times but I don't think its for me, and this one is mega shitty/cheaply made)
They surpassed the blockchain hype level long ago but I guess the difference was that concept never got the normie marketing polish that “AI” has.
Much like the old blockchain guys, AI guys get real upset when u call the tech overhyped to their face irl
Main difference is that blockchain never had an actual use case (speculation doesn't count) beyond buying heroin and running ransomware. Machine learning had practical applications for years that nobody really thought much of at the time, and the marketers got a hold of it after it was fairly well established without them and right at the point of a massive wave of breakthroughs in the area.
That being said, there is a fucking massive AI bubble. A large portion of the things we're seeing will survive when that pops, but boy are there a lot of very overconfident investors who are going to get burned hard on this.
Yeah the halcyon days of “NLP” made me like the tech but I never had any notion of the concept replacing anything but the most tedious work. It’s so bad that my bartender friend was scared for a moment that a robot would replace service work
the worst part is, while LLMs have been very useful to me this year and last year, spammers/scammers/etc get 1000x more utility out of it.
So have we reached the end of the gee-whiz rapid overturn in consumar technology era and now the grifters are trying to keep it going because phones are powerful enough to perform any reasonably desireable operation and no one buys real pcs for home use?
These shitty gimmick is the best they got to try and monetize a technology that costs billions of dollars. Thank you Capitalism, this is really innovative! A button that only does one thing! Great!
No, it's not even one of those pointless/hazardous to information security Internet of Things…things. It's just a rice cooker.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
