Windows Copilot Newsletter #13 - Google Gemini; Racial bias in ChatGPT; Baby trains AI
Windows Copilot Newsletter #13
A Gemini rebrand for Google; ChatGPT admits its racial bias; AI learns from webcam strapped to a baby.
Welcome to the lucky thirteenth edition of the Windows Copilot Newsletter - where we share all the latest from the ever-evolving world of AI chatbots. Lots of big news stories this week, so let's dive right in...
Top News
Google rebrands Bard as 'Gemini': Google has killed off its 'Bard' branding for its AI chatbot, replacing it with 'Gemini' - moving its chatbot to gemini.google.com. Simultaneously, Google announced global availability of 'Gemini Ultra 1.0' - available through a USD $20/month 'Google One' subscription. Read all about that here, here and (officially) here.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 available: A toggle between 'Work' and 'Web' modes in the Copilot desktop sidebar allows users to move between Microsoft 365-centred tasks and casual chats with the chatbot. Read about that upgrade here.
Microsoft redesigns Copilot for Web and Mobile: In a further sign of Microsoft's single-minded drive to 'Copilot all the things', a redesign of Copilot better suited to both web and mobile devices has been announced. Read Microsoft's announcement here, and an Engadget report here.
Top Tips
Emotional chatbots are better communicators: Research shows that a chatbot expressing emotions during interactions with users will be seen as more trustworthy, friendly - and human. Adding emotion to the mix makes for better interactions. Read about that here.
5 Chatbots everyone should know about: If you're not across all the important chatbots, no worries - this list from Forbes will give you a good sense for who's doing what, and how they differ.
Tough Love Prompts: Sometimes we need an adviser to be brutally honest. This article from Forbes outlines a strategy for writing 'tough love' prompts - driving you to your next big achievement.
Safely & Wisely
ChatGPT admits racial bias: A great report from Scientific American shows how ChatGPT displays its racial bias - and even admits to it!
Brainstorming with ChatGPT can become a crutch: Students can benefit from AI-accelerated thinking, but might become dependent upon it. Read about that here.
Longreads
Inside OpenAI's Plan to Make AI 'More Democratic': Can the world leader in generative AI open its processes, and 'listen' to the public? TIME looks at the process - and its outcomes.
A baby with a head camera trained an AI: Sam, a South Australian baby, wore a helmet with a camera for about 1% of his waking hours. Captured video 'trained' an AI model to recognise basic objects like 'ball' and 'bowl'. An intriguing new approach to human-machine learning, explored here.
Understanding the Copilot Pro Value Proposition
We're putting the finishing touches on a white paper which addresses the question, "Is Copilot Pro worth AUD $50 per person per month to my business?"
Here's an excerpt from our conclusions:
"Microsoft Copilot Pro represents the first mainstream effort to employ generative AI to enhance office-related productivity. However, these new tools enhance productivity unevenly. Some tasks and some users will receive the lion's share of the productivity benefits from Copilot Pro. Others will see few gains - or none at all."
The white paper comes out on Monday 12 February. Get your copy here.
That’s all the news for this week. We’ll be back at the end of next week with more AI chatbot news!
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Mark Pesce
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