NEW EPISODE! After a seven month hiatus, The Next Billion Seconds is back with 'The Next Billion Cars - Hard Questions'. Sally Dominguez, Drew Smith @[email protected] and I have never been in the same room to record before. We eyeball one another and ask some very hard questions. nextbillionseconds.com/2023/11/09/the…

OMG woke up to fantastic news - @BCS Publishing, through a Herculean effort, has brought forward the publication of 'Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI Chatbots' to 6 December!!!

Preorder here: bcs.org/books/genAI

Here's Windows Copilot Newsletter no 2 - Google sticks AI into everything in sight, Microsoft uplifts OneDrive - does this mean Bing Chat will be reading all your files? Plus much more! windowscopilotnewsletter.substack.com/p/windows-copi…

My latest Windows Copilot Strategies newsletter is out. 'Weapons-Grade' asks what happens when 'forbidden knowledge' inside AI chatbots surfaces, either due to prompt injection attacks - or the complete abandonment of all safeguards? windowscopilotstrategies.substack.com/p/two-weapons-…

My latest for Cosmos - the Science of Everything 'Commerce is at the heart of the Web, but it didn’t have to be' explores a few key individual decisions that gave us the wholly monetised and financialised Web we use (and are surveilled by) today. cosmosmagazine.com/technology/int…

A few updates on my forthcoming book 'Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI Chatbots' - lots has been happening in the AI chatbot space, and that's had an impact on the topics explored in the book. Have a read...

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The inaugural Windows Copilot Newsletter is out! This week Microsoft puts Windows Copilot into general release - at the same moment Bing Chat has been spotted generating malware ridden ads in its completions. That - and much more - in this issue: windowscopilotnewsletter.substack.com/p/september-29…

'The agendas of too many benefit from the rapid rollout of AI chatbots. Nothing is going to slow this runaway train. Meta just announced AI chatbot integrations. Is this wise? It doesn’t matter. In this beta test, we’re all automatically enrolled.' windowscopilotstrategies.substack.com/p/one-the-moth…

WOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! 🥳

Should you be typing that information into an AI chatbot? Do you know where that information is going, how it might be used, how many people might see it? BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT Publishing 'Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI Chatbots' has guidelines for safety & security - youtube.com/watch?v=CSO0t1…

AI chatbots can make up facts - its inherent to their design. Does that mean we can't use them? In my book 'Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI Chatbots' I offer some strategies for dealing with 'truthiness' and chatbots. Have a watch: youtube.com/watch?v=oAbOH-…

Why read 'Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI Chatbots'? Because Windows Copilot rolls out to HALF A BILLION computers in the next 60 days. Few know how to use Generative AI safely and wisely. Do you have Policies, Procedures, & Protocols in place?: youtube.com/watch?v=CWK1sv…

NEW BOOK! Excited to share with you that 'Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI Chatbots' will be released on 17 January 2024 by @BCS Publishing.

As Microsoft moves to release of Windows Copilot, we need learn how to use these new tools safely & wisely. markpesce.com/book

My latest column for Cosmos - the Science of Everything takes us back a generation to #USENET - and why a distributed censorship-resistant news distribution mechanism may need to be a part of our future as well as a key element of our past

cosmosmagazine.com/technology/int…

Portable Large Language Models – not the iPhone 15 – are the future of the smartphone dlvr.it/Sw1tmr

If you missed me on RNZ - Nine To Noon yesterday

Tech: Biggest hack of the year, breaking AI chatbots, Zoom honesty

rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Have a listen

On RNZ RNZ - Nine To Noon this morning at 9.05am AEST, talking about the worst-ever hack; another hack jamming up the world's biggest telescopes; when DEFCON hackers go after AI Chatbots; and what the CEO of Zoom really thinks about remote meetings... rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

My latest column for Cosmos - the Science of Everything 'It's time to learn to manage AI chatbots' - because #ChatGPT , #BingChat and #Bard are showing up... pretty much everywhere.

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There are only 27 left in this first drop. Let's mint this out so that we can reveal the final 40... get ready for some wild spaces and happenings next week!

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