Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL

Logitech's CEO says that AI-powered devices are a solution looking for a problem, despite being a strong proponent of AI and her firm pushing out exactly the kind of thing she's talking about.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Hanneke Faber, head of the Swiss mouse and webcam maker, dismissed efforts of other hardware companies to build AI into their gadgets.

"What's out there is a solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist," she reportedly told Bloomberg.

Admittedly, there have been some oddities such as the Humane AI Pin, a voice-powered chunk of plastic that users were supposed to pin to their clothing, and the Rabbit R1, a small square device equipped with a 2.88-inch touchscreen that used AI to interact with your smartphone so you wouldn't have to.

Logitech would never do that, of course, and so claims to be holding off on ...