Windows Copilot Newsletter #25 - Copilot writes prompts, Microsoft courts spooks, workers ashamed to admit AI use
Windows Copilot Newsletter #25
Copilot begins writing its own prompts; Microsoft offers an ‘air gapped’ chatbot for national security orgs; are you ashamed you’re using AI on the job?
G’day and welcome to the twenty-fifth 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 of interesting developments, so let’s dive right in…
Top News
Copilot turns users into ‘prompt engineers’: New features unveiled to the press this week show that Copilot will begin to offer users help constructing their prompts. Good prompts are not easy, and this will help lower the barrier to effective use of AI. Read that here.
OpenAI cuts deals with publishers for content: In a busy week of dealmaking, OpenAI announced deals with Stack Exchange - a user-generated site of tech tips - and Dotdash Meredith, the magazine giant that publishes People. Stack Exchange users have been pushing back against what they seen as unfair use of their contributions.
Microsoft offers an ‘air gapped’ chatbot: AI hasn’t made its way into the deepest parts of the security apparatus, because it needs to be connected to a massive server facility. Microsoft is offering those customers an ‘air gapped’ solution - a standalone version of its AI chatbots, touching no networks. Read about it here.
Workers use AI, but feel bad about it: The 2024 report on the state of work - published jointly by Microsoft and LinkedIn - shows that a majority of workers do use AI tools, but are too embarrassed to admit it. Or perhaps, afraid of losing their job to a robot? Read about it.
Top Tips
ChatGPT prompts you’ll wish you knew sooner: Another fine listicle of some outstanding ChatGPT prompts.
Company uses Copilot to improve meetings: Being the meeting notetaker is a thankless task - but a necessary one. These days, AI can do that well - and makes for a good story.
Safely and Wisely
Too early to trust Meta AI? The New York Times had a play with Meta’s new chatbot, Meta AI, and writes that maybe it’s not very trustworthy.
National Archives bans ChatGPT: Worried about data privacy, the US National Archive has banned employees from using ChatGPT and other chatbots. Read that here.
Longreads
The teens making friends with AI chatbots: Are deep, intense emotional relationships with chatbots healthy for adults? What about for teenagers? Where is all this going? This great longread from The Verge explores this topic.
AI content monster infecting media: Futurism conducts a lengthy investigation of AdVon, an AI-powered tool that is flooding media channels - such as Sports Illustrated - with decidedly ‘mid’ content. Is this the future for all media?
‘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 latest 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.
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