Cool, can we make it the CEO?
Isn't she the same spinny bitch that wanted to sell mouse subscriptions?
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.
I really hate this framing of “idea that no one had requested”. It echoes the terminally online worthless dumbfuck line of “who asked?” Enough with this shit. No one needs to ask for anything. Ideas are ideas. This is yet another bad one.
Yeah well when you're clueless you would want backup wouldn't you
These Psychopathic Tech Oligarchs know that it is only a matter of time before the AI Slaughterbots turn on us, and they're hoping that their obsequience will save them.
It won't. Hopefully the Slaughterbots will kill them first.
Yeah so copilot taking notes is pretty helpful I agree
The current iteration of agentic AI technology used by Logitech is little more than a glorified note-taking bot capable of summarizing meetings and "generating" the occasional idea.
Given that most humans hate note-taking and avoid it, but it has a lot of value as a meeting output, getting a machine to do it makes sense.
I also heard a podcast where a consulting company couldn't get their client contact to make any decisions because he wanted his CEO to review, but she had a busy schedule and was never available. The consultants trained an AI on this CEOs writings, and presented it to their client contact. The model was convincing enough the client felt comfortable making decisions. I thought that was interesting, and this article refers to something similar with models of stakeholders.
And i want to bring a pack of dogs into meetings
Allowed, but they all need to be cuddly politeboys.
Monkey paw finger curls
Granted however the dogs are only polite to the CEO. To everyone else the dogs are murder hobos.
I want a live hive of Africanized bees in every board room but we just can't all have what we want, can we?
Why pay a big salary to the CEO when you can have chatgpt as your CEO for only $20 a month?
But chatgpt won't berate the serfs and call them moochers, all while bragging about how hard he worked to get in the top position all by himself without anyone's help whatsoever!
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!
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”
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.
RIP Logitech, no longer my go-to.
They've been going downhill for years
Hanneke Faber became CEO of Logitech on December 1, 2023, after leaving her role as group president at Unilever. Since joining the Swiss peripheral manufacturer, Faber has attracted attention for her unconventional ideas about how personal technology should evolve – often with a focus on benefiting shareholders and companies first.
Faber is now best known for proposing the so-called "Forever Mouse" concept – a device with constantly evolving firmware features built on base hardware that customers would purchase only once. According to Faber, users would happily pay monthly or annual subscriptions to access these software-based upgrades. However, no concrete business plans have yet been announced to bring the idea to market.
Regarding pricing, the CEO compared the mouse to a Rolex watch and the software to Logitech's video conferencing business. A paid subscription is possible, but Faber offered no further details.
What 😄
Came here to post this. This CEO has a lot of amazing ideas...
Yeah, every time I use my mouse I think "man I really wish this was an subscription service!"
Honestly I wouldn't mind if a company charged like, $1/month or something reasonable like that but for some reason some asshole made it standard practice to charge $10-$15/month for literally anything and now everyone uses that as the starting point for their "services"
I’m choosing to pronounce the first part of your handle as “roog” instead of pyre. Also, have an upvote. That’s way too many downvotes for sharing an earnest opinion.
Maybe if they have you the mouse for free a sub fee a per month would be reasonable. But it's a mouse. What killer software could one be paying for for a mouse subscription.
Yeah I was more thinking the mouse be free plus any replacements in the future.
Then you would break even after about 5 years ($60)
Unfortunately I believe that was still a mouse you'd have to pay for up front, you'd just get a subscription on top of that.
Oh, I’m sure you pay the whole price up front. You can’t think like a rational person with these things, only a capitalist. The only thing that changes is that now Logitech has a stable revenue stream and gets to turn off your mouse if you stop paying for even a second.
I’d rather have no software with my mouse than this dystopian nightmare.
Yea, their logi+ software was sending out a firmware update or something that was bricking something, so now I use my keyboard and mouse without the software.
How is a person so out of touch?
Read her bio page at Logitech. Looks like she got into a leader role because she previously had a leader role. She is in the best case some CEO who brings "value" to a company trough enshittification, but she has zero background relevant to computers, software, hardware or peripheral.
I don't see how she would have first hand experience with her product line and create better products.
isn't it funny how the folks who actually study, design, and make things earn pennies compared to the C-suit gang that takes home the lion's share for diddling with money (and kids)?
previous job at unilever lol
The same reason she thinks that AI should be in meetings....to bad she could be replaced by AI and nothing of value was lost....
Yes a subscription service for my... mouse please that sounds like an improvement.
Make all tools obtrusive lets go
I move my mouse and the cursor moves on screen. What other features is she planning to add?
An AI that moves the mouse on your screen so you don’t need to! Now you can go back to work while your mouse doom scrolls for you.
An AI that plays ads when you are idle with the mouse.
Not moving the mouse? Time for an ad.
sad to see I’ll never buy logitech again. gotta tell all the walmart homies not to either
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.
Why though?
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