Windows Copilot Newsletter #4
Back after a brief pause with even more news about AI chatbots everywhere...
Welcome back to the Windows Copilot Newsletter! Our weekly cadence of updates has been interrupted by a very busy schedule of events - my apologies. We’re reestablishing our stride now: look for these newsletters at the end of the week.
Top Stories
Continuing its drive to Copilot ‘all the things’, Windows Central reports that Microsoft will soon release a Windows Copilot upgrade for the billion-plus users of its Windows 10 operating system. If that turns out to be true - and there’s every reason to believe it, based on Microsoft’s current strategic direction - then pretty much every Windows device will have access to ‘weapons grade’ AI. Read that article here.
At a developer event this week, OpenAI announced ‘GPTs’ - pre-scripted roles for the world’s most powerful AI Chatbot, ChatGPT. Starting with a handful - including one tuned to help you illustrate a colouring book, and another which will help you get stains out of your laundry - OpenAI promises that ChatGPT+ customers will be able to ‘create their own GPTs’, which they’ll be able to share and even sell through an OpenAI marketplace. Read their press release here.
The White House and G7 participated in a forum and self-regulatory initiative which is attempting to ringfence the dangers associated with AI chatbots. While this is all entirely voluntarily and still rather vague on detail, it may represent a new intersection point between government and technology. Read about that here.
Top Tips
Use Google’s Bard AI chatbot? Here’s a list of best practices for making the most of it.
Men’s Journal provides an explainer and basic introduction to Windows Copilot here.
Australia’s Real Estate agents are already using ChatGPT to do their jobs!
Safely & Wisely
Australian academics asked Google Bard for some information about the actions of one of the ‘Big Four’ consultancies. It confabulated ‘truthy’ responses, which then made their way into a report tabled to Parliament. Tres embarrassment.
People are relying on ‘Doctor ChatGPT’ but the American Academy of Ophthalmology reports that the chatbot gives inaccurate information.
Longreads
How fast is AI improving? Do we have to worry about the rise of a superintelligence? While I’d say no, opinions differ, and here’s an interesting take.
Book Updates
Final corrections to the proofs of the manuscript of Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI Chatbots have been submitted. The book should be off to the printers next week for a release on the 6th of December! Don’t forget to pre-order your copy here!
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An in-person book launch will be held in Sydney on 6 December. Details for that will be forthcoming in our next newsletter, which I promise is coming next week!
Until then,
Mark Pesce
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