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  • AI chatbot hallucinations – mind those P’s and Q’s

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    This is no joke! You’ve heard about this – whether AI chatbots mind their Ps and Qs. So, beware of nonsense. Statistically, how often do AI hallucinations happen? Yes, there’ll be updates … “We can’t stop hallucinations, but we can manage them.” (Maybe like the Id and Ego?) • Wiki > Hallucination (artificial intelligence) In

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  • Apple’s M-Series security – promises ≠ perfection

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    “GoFetch” is in the tech news cycle this week. Hopefully you know whether you have an Apple M-Series Mac. The M-Series (aka Apple silicon) computers advanced better performance and energy efficiency. How about security? – faster data pipelining is tricky (via so-called optimizations). Obscurity’s no guarantee (like, really, the front door key’s not in a

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  • Big Tech’s rocking credos on the rocks – a love story

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    Some billionaires are bullies. But can they be bullied? Sure, in autocracies. But in the United States? Well … disrupting the so-called disrupters. As the song goes, “traveling twice the speed of sound, it’s easy to get burned” [1]. Normally, sucking up to power isn’t news in the corporate world, but Silicon Valley was supposed

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  • AI chatbot subscriptions – worth $20 a month?

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    Despite all the reality checks and cautions about AI chatbots, general discussion & development continues to move ahead, discounting worst-case scenarios. Particularly big tech rollouts of new versions – with some new names – for public-facing chatbots. And AI startups even pitching the promise of empathetic-like AI customer-facing agents to businesses (delivering at least better

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  • ChatGPT at one year – we cut our path in moving on

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    “Our future will be characterized by a tension between copilot (AI as collaborator) and autopilot (humans as sidekick to AI). The latter is more efficient and cheaper in a narrow labor economics sense but troublesome in all sorts of ways.” – Wired > email Newsletter > Steven Levy > Plaintext > The Plain View (December

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