It can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong
It can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong
You can’t put data into an LLM and then filter the output to block some of it. Once it’s in the model, it’s in the model. If you put confidential business information into Microsoft 365 Copilot, an attacker can extract…
Microsoft has carefully leaked the news of its BIG SALE of Copilot licenses to Barclays Bank! 100,000 seats! Fantastic! [Bloomberg, archive] That’s a few million dollars? If that. Microsoft claims “dozens” of organisations bought into Copilot big time — but…
Telstra is Australia’s former monopoly phone company, now privatised. How do you squeeze more money out of your fixed user base? With “AI!” [Press release; investor presentation, PDF] Telstra CEO Vicky Brady told investors that AI “will be a significant…
Business owners hate employees more than anything. Unfortunately, AI’s not very good at doing human jobs. We noted last month how chatbots hadn’t knocked down wages or hours in any occupation. Orgvue surveyed 1,000 executives. 39% of them had fired…
You’ve replaced those annoying human employees with a website chatbot. Unfortunately, it keeps hallucinating discounts for your customers or swearing at them and badmouthing your company What if we insured you against this? Technology error and omission insurance covers some…
Will AI help you in your career? No. Not if anyone finds out, anyway. Today in science discovering the obvious, if you use chatbots to pump out the AI slop at work, your coworkers think you’re an incompetent and lazy…
Intel’s Q1 2025 earnings press release talked up their new AI-enabled chips. But these are not selling. [Intel] In the earnings call, CFO Dave Zinsner mentioned they had “capacity constraints in Intel 7 which we expect to persist for the…
OpenAI is outraged at DeepSeek stealing the data that OpenAI rightfully, er, fair-used. So OpenAI’s higher-tier models now require solid verification of identity! And … the verification doesn’t work very well. [OpenAI] A company representative must provide photos of official…
Customer service is terrible. Customers hate it. Support agents hate it. Can you guess the answer? Capgemini has released a 112-page slide deck, “Unleashing the value of customer service: The transformative impact of Gen AI and agentic AI.” [Capgemini, PDF]…
Gartner Research Distinguished Analyst John-David Lovelock forecasts “extinction” for the large language model vendors. [Register] Lovelock figures there’s a market for three large LLMs — because cloud providers resolved to three large ones. Yeah, that’s literally his reason. So there’s…