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This Logitech Mouse Comes With AI Buttons: Do People Really Want That?

Logitech is the latest tech company to launch an AI product and its solution is a mouse with a dedicated button that pulls up its new AI Prompt Builder software. There are two AI buttons on the Logitech Signature AI Edition M750 Mouse; a teal-colored one up top activates the prompt software, while one of its side buttons is a ChatGPT shortcut. Prompt Builder can paraphrase or summarize text, reply to text inputs, or write emails from scratch.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/this-logitech-mouse-comes-with-ai-buttons-do-people-really-want-that

Humane AI Pin review: not even close

"As the overall state of AI improves, the AI Pin will probably get better, and I’m bullish on AI’s long-term ability to do a lot of fiddly things on our behalf. But there are too many basic things it can’t do, too many things it doesn’t do well enough, and too many things it does well but only sometimes that I’m hard-pressed to name a single thing it’s genuinely good at. None of this — not the hardware, not the software, not even GPT-4 — is ready yet."
https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review

Amazon Fresh kills “Just Walk Out” shopping tech—it never really worked

A May 2023 report from The Information revealed the myriad tech problems Amazon was still having with the idea six years after the initial announcement. The report said that "Amazon had more than 1,000 people in India working on Just Walk Out as of mid-2022 whose jobs included manually reviewing transactions and labeling images from videos to train Just Walk Out’s machine learning model."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/amazon-ends-ai-powered-store-checkout-which-needed-1000-video-reviewers/

Artists who use AI are more productive but less original

An analysis of work posted on a popular art-sharing website finds that users who adopted generative artificial intelligence tools increased their output, but saw a drop in novelty.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2423087-artists-who-use-ai-are-more-productive-but-less-original/

Facebook Is Making Insane AI-Generated Fever Dreams Go Viral for Gullible Boomers

Facebook is quickly being overrun by dubious, AI-generated junk — which is somehow attracting huge amounts of attention from its aging user base. Last week, screenshots of a Facebook post drawing in hundreds of likes and comments with pictures of a "shrimp Jesus" went viral on X-formerly-Twitter. Judging by the comments, the researchers found that "many users are unaware of the synthetic origin of the images, though a subset of users post comments or infographics alerting others."
https://futurism.com/facebook-ai-generated-images-viral

Adobe adds Firefly generative AI features to new Express mobile app

Adobe has released a new app for Adobe Express, its cloud-based mobile design platform, bringing the same creative, editing, and Firefly-powered generative AI features enjoyed by desktop users to iOS and Android devices. Available to try for free today in beta, the new Adobe Express app allows users to easily produce creative assets like social media posts, posters, and website banners, with Creative Cloud members able to access and edit Photoshop and Illustrator files directly within the mobile app.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/7/24093148/adobe-express-mobile-app-beta-firefly-generative-ai-design-tool

Google launches an AI-powered image generator

“Designed for experimentation and creativity, ImageFX lets you create images with a simple text prompt, then easily modify them with a new take on prompting using expressive chips,” Google writes in a blog post. “We invested in the safety of training data from the outset,” Google said. “Consistent with our AI principles, we also conducted extensive adversarial testing and red teaming to identify and mitigate potential harmful and problematic content.”
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/google-launches-an-ai-powered-image-generator/