By Emilia David , a reporter who covers AI. Prior to joining The Verge, she covered the intersection between technology, finance, and the economy.

Logitech wants you to press its new AI button

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2024-04-17 13:30:06

By Emilia David , a reporter who covers AI. Prior to joining The Verge, she covered the intersection between technology, finance, and the economy.

Tomorrow’s AI PCs may not only have a Copilot key on their keyboards — Logitech is introducing its own way to summon ChatGPT, too. It’s called the Logi AI Prompt Builder, and it’ll use a dedicated button on your mouse or keyboard.

The Logi AI Prompt Builder doesn’t just present you with a chatbot, it gives you preset “recipes” to help you prompt it, too. After I assigned an AI button to a Logitech mouse, I could ask it to “Rephrase” paragraphs of text, turn them into bullet points, make them shorter and more concise, or fit a specific word count. Another recipe helped me summarize press releases. And since I pay for ChatGPT Plus, I customized another recipe to generate an image.

Prompt Builder seems like it could be useful. But I had to get a new Logitech mouse to use it, as my own personal Logitech M557 that I bought in 2022 was deemed too old to work with the software. Also, it strangely only launched when I wasn’t on either of my two browser windows. (I found myself using a ChatGPT tab in my web browser instead, since that way I wouldn’t have to click out of my browser.)