Tomorrow’s AI PCs could not solely have a Copilot key on their keyboards — Logitech is introducing its personal solution to summon ChatGPT, too. It’s referred to as the Logi AI Immediate Builder, and it’ll use a devoted button in your mouse or keyboard.
The Logi AI Immediate Builder doesn’t simply current you with a chatbot, it offers you preset “recipes” that can assist you immediate it too. After I assigned an AI button to a Logitech mouse, I may ask it to “Rephrase” paragraphs of textual content, flip them into bullet factors, make them shorter and extra concise, or match a particular phrase depend. One other recipe helped me summarize press releases. And since I pay for ChatGPT Plus, I custom-made one other recipe to generate a picture.
Immediate Builder looks as if it may truly be helpful. However I needed to get a brand new Logitech mouse to make use of it, as my very own private Logitech M557 that I purchased in 2022 was deemed too outdated to work with the software program. Additionally, it surprisingly solely launched once I wasn’t on both of my two browser home windows. (I discovered myself utilizing a ChatGPT tab in my net browser, as an alternative, since that means I wouldn’t should click on out of my browser.)
Logitech will even promote no less than one mouse with a devoted AI button you gained’t must map to its immediate builder: an AI version of its M750 mouse with a teal-colored key to immediately launch it. It’ll solely be accessible within the US and UK for $49.99 or £54.99 respectively. You don’t want the particular version AI mouse, however you do want a Logitech gadget, because the immediate builder is a part of the corporate’s bundled Logi Choices+ software program.
For now, Logi AI Immediate Builder solely works with ChatGPT and solely understands English at launch. Logitech did say it’s engaged on linking it to different chatbots.
On the finish of the day, this looks as if a means for Logitech to promote extra Logitech peripherals, and it seemingly gained’t be the one firm with such an concept. When the time comes that every one PCs have dueling AI buttons, which one will you push to ask your chatbots a query?