Windows Copilot Newsletter #24 - Meta AI everywhere; ChatGPT+ remembers; Priestbot gets defrocked
Windows Copilot Newsletter #24
Meta AI is suddenly very widely accessible; ChatGPT+ can now remember details about its users; an experiment in religious chatbots goes badly wrong…
G’day and welcome to the twenty-fourth edition of Windows Copilot Newsletter, where we curate all the most important news from the rapidly expanding-field of AI chatbots. It’s been a week crowded with news, so let’s dive right in…
Top News
Meta AI is everywhere: Meta rushed out ‘Meta AI’ in advance of this quarter’s shareholder update. Was the chatbot ready? Was it wise to embed Meta AI it into the social media giant’s big four apps: Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp? Early indications suggest otherwise. More here.
Gemini mobile goes Global: Ramping up its global rollout, Google has now made Gemini available via mobile apps to users in 150 countries. A few billion people can now use Gemini on their smartphones. Read about this.
Claude goes mobile, too: These days, you can’t be a serious chatbot without a mobile app, so Anthropic, maker of Claude, released theirs for iOS devices this week. Read more.
ChatGPT+ remembers: Tired of typing your personal information into ChatGPT+? OpenAI has just added a feature that allows the chatbot to ‘remember’ those details. Great, right? Or just creepy? Read it all here.
Top Tips
How to use Copilot in Outlook, Excel: Two great how-to guides from the folks at Lifewire: Copilot in Excel, and Copilot in Outlook.
Answering legal questions with chatbots: A useful guide to what’s possible - and what’s not - when using a chatbot to answer your legal queries. Read it here.
Safely and Wisely
ChatGPT provides false information about individuals: ChatGPT has a propensity to ‘hallucinate’ details about individuals, and Austrian firm noyb has filed suit against OpenAI in the EU - using the GDPR - to stop this behavior. Read their statement.
A Priest-bot gets defrocked: Religious organisation Catholic Answers created a chatbot role-playing as a Catholic priest. It did not go well. Read about that trainwreck here.
Longreads
Bill Gates, still in control: An exposé from Business Insider reveals Microsoft founder and publicly ‘retired’ Bill Gates still pulling the strings within the world’s most valuable company - particularly where AI is concerned. Read it.
Patriarchal AI: A lengthy post from the London School of Economics demonstrates how biases in language models like ChatGPT have real-world impacts on women. An important read.
‘De-Risking AI’ white paper - now out
AI offers organisations powerful new capabilities to automate workflows, amplify productivity, and redefine business practices. These same tools open the door to risks that few organisations have encountered before.
Wisely AI’s new white paper, ‘De-Risking AI’, lays a foundation for understanding and mitigating those risks. It's part of our core mission to "help organisations use AI safely and wisely". Read it here.
Seminar “The AI Mindset for Business Problem Solving”
Join Wisely AI on Thursday 9 May at The Quantum Terminal at Central for a 2-hour seminar where you’ll learn how to analyse your workflows, recognising where and how AI can best accelerate them. Register to attend here. (It’s free!)
More next week - we’ll be back with the latest AI chatbot news!
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Mark Pesce
mark@safelyandwisely.ai * www.safelyandwisely.ai