Why though?
Oh, so this is the person that is responsible for Logitech’s decline.
She came in too late for that. The people responsible hire people like her.
she suggests that every board meeting should include an AI bot – and perhaps, in the not-so-distant future, replace the entire board with bots altogether
She’s got a point though
Won’t she be shocked when the AI board replaces her with an AI too
these people are too egocentric to conceive of something like that
Let’s actually do that, because there’s a chance the AIs hallucinate the company straight into the ground.
Sounds like she’s on it already
Imagine what she can accomplish in an echo chamber, though.
Cool, can we make it the CEO?
Bots eavesdropping? That’s a great way to see all the nerds dead silent on the mandated cam feeds except for the furious typing and occasional smirk. They’re probably working.
Guy at my last job would not speak if the Zoom was making an AI summary. He’d tell everyone up front, turn his camera off and go mute.
RIP Logitech, no longer my go-to.
They’ve been going downhill for years
Just think of all the insider information they’ll gain with cloud connected dictation software. They’ll make a killing on the stock market.
“But they promise they don’t”
Well, seemingly there must be a strong demand for „EverythingAIBullsh*t“ even in input devices in her view. Maybe the next hardware vendor who needs to be taught that customers should be heard with reason…. 🤷🏼♂️
I want a live hive of Africanized bees in every board room but we just can’t all have what we want, can we?
So it can log what is being said and he can secretly try to game the market!
“Look, my model makes the best stock picks because it’s so intelligent and does lots of thinking and reasoning just like a human, that’s why we need a huge data canter bigger than the one the NSA has in Utah that records all the world’s internet traffic”
Logitech went coocoo a while ago… But since they’ve put motherfucking ads in their driver (I have never ever thought i would say such a bizarre thing) I’ve thrown away my lg-stuff and replaced it. After like 20yrs of brand-loyalty. Ads…in…a…driver…which already sucked ass since the switch to lg-hub. Ugh.
What does Logitech make that requires such a driver?
Tbf, they make things like sim racing equipment etc
That does not require a proprietary driver. Controller interfaces have been standardized for the last decade.
For controller sure, but bear in mind if you’re looking at something like a wheel with force feedback, and pedals with pressure sensitive response, that changes more than just button presses
Edit: to be clear I’m not defending the shit in this article in question. Just that some of the stuff they do may actually need a driver. But not everything…
“Require” isn’t right OFC. But why would i buy one and use third party stuff that may or may not work with all features of a product?
What is it?
Probably the unifying software (runs multiple peripherals on one dongle) or the solar app (kinda neat, not needed).
I know what you want to tell me. But I buy product x, y and z and want to use one singular controlling software to, well, control them…
How do they manage that? Like where do the ads actually display?
They silently install Logitech Download Assistant through Windows Update as soon as you plug a logitech device in.
Then you get a an ad to download their software as a popup message by the clock.
Since I saw it on a work machine pre pandemic, I have boycotted Logitech, I now mainly use Pulsar mice and Ducky Keyboards.
I think that’s only if you’re using their unifying dongle. They dropped that tech I think, not sure they replaced it.
My current Logitech mouse never bugs me, only using a generic driver.
Eh, it only showed up when I plugged it in the first time, but you can find the dll loaded even after.
It doesn’t use a lot of RAM or CPU, but for me it is the principle, don’t install software without asking me.
Drivers are another matter.
Makes sense. Hateful, but I get it now. Thanks.
I’ve been wondering what they heck this was. I use a Logitech mouse at work and this popup is the bane of my existence. Our workstations are locked out for software downloads but I also can’t get rid of the damn popup.
It adds a dll that can’t really be uninstalled easily.
This thread has a lot of information:
https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/147661-how-remove-logitech-download-assistant.html
Right when you start it up. Right now it’s "just x their own products. But I’m sure if noone complains, it’ll broaden.
Btw, the protocols & stuff is already reverse-engineered on Linux side. Are there ported drivers (& libratbag) for Windows?
This lady seems like such a fucking idiot.
Same one that wants to make your mouse a monthly subscription
You will own nothing and love it, feudal peasants!
Why pay a big salary to the CEO when you can have chatgpt as your CEO for only $20 a month?
$20 a month
LOFUCKINGL
$20? Just ask without logging in.
AI in every board meeting? Oof, they’d better hurry up and invent one, then!
As AI-skeptical as I often am, is this really problematic? AI taking notes and then sharing them at the end of the meeting, for example, is objectively good.
Sometimes having a plausibly-looking mistake (“hallucination”) in notes is worse than not having notes.
