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Which bits?

Many years ago, as a Postgraduate, I was studying Marine Science. One of the things we had to learn was how to take water quality tests. BOD (Biological Oxygen Demand) and working out dissolved oxygen. Ugh I remember it was at least four pages of written calculus and you ended

Not a surprise

This is not surprising or even news. People have been having a lot of fun bypassing for a while, and prompt injection is a real thing AI chatbots’ safeguards can be easily bypassed, say UK researchersFive systems tested were found to be ‘highly vulnerable’ to attempts to elicit harmful responsesThe

Smoke and mirrors

You may hear the term AGI. It stands for Artificial General Intelligence and its basically AI that matches or surpasses human capabilities across a wide range of tasks. Like any computer in a sci-fi movie. I put it in the same category as cold fusion, every crypto project (ever) and

Sustainable increase?

The sustainability push is going well. According to Microsoft’s 2023 Sustainability Report, emissions went up 29% and water usage 23% Microsoft’s Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up ResourcesAmid an explosion in AI, energy use and water consumption hit an all-time high in 2023 as Redmond’s data

Keep LLM's local

A lot of the use cases for LLMs I’ve heard from people is along the lines of “Help me get started on this document, presentation, report or speech” or “Summarise this document”. Which are pretty simple requests, but it’s when people send data with no thought…that’s

Slack happy to use your data

With MS Teams or Google Chat pretty much bundled, I was always a bit frustrated at the desire to use Slack. Development teams love it. But from a cost perspective? Why am I paying for two chat apps? Hey someone has to look after the budget. Anyway, Slack considers customer

Delicious research

Zitron writes, how I’d like to write. But what I really like about him - is he does the research. Opinions, arguments and critical thinking are so much more powerful if you’ve done the work (I think). Even Google had to respond to one of his pieces. Much

United on Ransomware payments

Interesting. Cyber insurance industry unites to bear down on ransom paymentsJoint guidance from the NCSC with the Association of British Insurers (ABI), British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) and International Underwriting Association (IUA) aims to help organisations faced with ransomware demands minimise disruption and the cost of an incident. The guidance

Go beyond the sales pitch

This is not going to be too technical. Hopefully. I’m already seeing a lot of posts and news articles about OpenAI releasing ChatGPT-4o. All very frothy. I get suspicious when articles start quoting what it could do in the future as much as what it can do now. If

Leadership by example

This is happening more and more. It also reads as pretty lo-fi, as in just AI voice cloning being used - it’s cloned video as well for others. I doubt there will be published stories when it’s successful. CEO of world’s biggest ad firm targeted by deepfake