Windows Copilot Newsletter #30 - Apple Intelligence; Recall recalled; ChatGPT bulls**t?
Windows Copilot Newsletter #30
Apple adds AI to all the things with Apple Intelligence; Microsoft recalls its Recall tool in a flurry of bad publicity; a paper calls out ChatGPT for its “bullsh**” behaviors…
G’day and welcome to the thirtieth edition of the Windows Copilot Newsletter, a curation of what we reckon to be the most significant of this week’s news within the expanding field of AI chatbots. A huge week, so let’s get right to it…
Top News
Apple Intelligence: At this week’s World Wide Developer Conference, Apple introduced ‘Apple Intelligence’, its own approach to bringing AI features into its smartphones, tablets and computers. It all seems to be very well designed, with an emphasis on privacy. The market voted up, making Apple (briefly) the world’s most valuable public company.
Microsoft recalls Recall: After basically every privacy and security expert everywhere delivered an emphatic “No!!” in response to Microsoft’s history-compiling Recall tool, Redmond blinked.
Copilot Pro GPTs get ‘retired’: In the midst of Apple’s announcements, Microsoft put out a blog post informing Copilot Pro users that its GPT feature - closely modeled on a similar feature in ChatGPT+ - is being ‘retired’. All GPTs and their data will be deleted in July.
Is Google creating its own Recall? Google’s VP of ChromeOS said the search giant was looking to create its own version of Recall. Because that worked out so well for Microsoft?
Top Tips
DuckDuckGo’s anonymous chatbot: The engineers at DuckDuckGo have added a new feature to their browser - anonymous access to a range of different chatbots. Read how to use it here.
AI saves time: A useful listicle of many of the AI features in Windows 11 that can save you time.
Safely and Wisely
Lost $10K due to ChatGPT coding mistake: The post looks to have been “taken down”. It told the story of how a ChatGPT generated coding error cost a move-fast-and-break-things startup more than $10K in revenues. Fortunately, the Wayback Machine never forgets.
ChatGPT is Bullsh**: Researchers at the University of Glasgow say out loud what many have been thinking: ChatGPT is the consummate bullsh** artist. Read their paper here.
Longreads
Revenge of the humanities: Steven Johnson pens an essay that links the rise of Generative AI with a renaissance in the ‘soft’ skills that suddenly seem far more relevant. Read it here.
Inventor of the Transformer on AI in the enterprise: One of the eight authors of “Attention is all you need”, the paper that led to modern chatbots, Aidan Gomez sees huge growth in enterprise AI, and tells The Verge all about it.
‘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.
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We’re taking a wee break — and we’ll be back the first week of July with all the latest news about AI chatbots!
Mark Pesce
mark@safelyandwisely.ai // www.safelyandwisely.ai