Windows Copilot Newsletter #3
The 'Copilotisation of all the things', Meta uses your Insta posts to train its AI, and how to avoid hallucinations...
Welcome to the third edition of the Windows Copilot Newsletter, a weekly drop of all the most important and most interesting news about Windows Copilot, Bing Chat, and the rapidly expanding universe of AI chatbots.
Top News
Microsoft continues to add Copilot to more and more of its product line, including - come November - OneNote. Read about that here.
In related news, Microsoft confirmed that its customers in the EU do not have access to Windows Copilot, as they nut out the thorny privacy issues of having an AI chatbot with acess to pretty much everything on your PC. Read more here.
Surprising approximately no one, Meta’s Nick Clegg confirmed that Meta uses “everything” - including Instagram posts - to train its AI chatbots. Which means, at least in theory, all of that information could surface, given a good enough prompt. Read all about that here.
Top Tips
All AI chatbots have a propensity to make up facts - which we anthropomorphically call ‘hallucinations’. This great post gives you 8 tips to avoid halucinations. Get across them here.
Tired of waiting for Windows Copilot? Why wait? A tip at the end of this article shows you how to turn it on. Read that here.
Safely & Wisely
This column in The Register - by someone strangely familiar - looks at the potentially catastrophic security implications of Windows Copilot. Read that here.
Bing Chat image creator has been upgraded to the latest-and-greatest DALL-E 3. But very quickly the ‘guardrails’ went up - to prevent the creation of nasty or infringing content. Read all about it.
Longreads
The New Yorker looks at how AI models learn - with lots of data - and muses about what data sources could be next, and how that will work. Read it here.
An AI Now Institute report making the rounds looks at the extraordinary and unsustainable power demands of AI chatbots. It’s eye-opening, and here.
Book updates
In a bit of fantastic news, BCS Publishing has announced that due to ‘huge demand and efficient author’ they have advanced the publication date of Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI Chatbots to the 6th of December! Pre-order your copy here!
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Until next week,
Mark Pesce
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