It can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong
It can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong
MIT’s Project NANDA has a new paper: “The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025.” This got a writeup in Fortune a few days ago about how 95% of generative AI projects in business just fail. The report came…
The huge gains for companies from AI don’t seem to … exist. McKinsey says: “Nearly eight in ten companies report using gen AI — yet just as many report no significant bottom-line impact.” [McKinsey] Over 80% of surveyed companies “report…
Copilot Studio is a Microsoft AI agent for the enterprise. An ordinary non-techie user can make a chatbot search front-end for your company data. It’s a chatbot agent, so it’s full of holes. Last year, Michael Bargury of Zenity used…
Microsoft has sort-of released its exciting new vision of the future of Microsoft Windows in 2030 — agentic computing on your Windows desktop, in the far off future of five years from now! The speaker is David Weston, Microsoft’s Corporate…
Remember that much-loved Microsoft AI feature Copilot Recall that keeps screenshots of everything happening on your Windows PC? Now there’s Microsoft Copilot Vision for Windows 11, which takes whatever happens on your Copilot+ laptop and sends it to Microsoft! [Microsoft;…
Microsoft Copilot has an avatar now! It’s a viscous pearly blob of liquid. That wobbles. And has facial expressions. I had to euphemise furiously on the YouTube version of this post — but for the blog, the AP Style Guide…
Tech recruiters Howdy surveyed 1,047 full-time professionals who say they use AI. 30% of survey subjects said they were managers. [Howdy] 75% of subjects were expected to use AI at work. 22% felt pressured to use AI when it was…
An internal Microsoft memo has leaked. It was written by Julia Liuson, president of the Developer Division at Microsoft and GitHub. The memo tells managers to evaluate employees based on how much they use internal AI tools like the various…
Salesforce is still hyped for AI everywhere! Especially its chatbot Agentforce, introduced in December! Agentforce didn’t work so well in outside tests. The reviewer said: “I can’t help but question whether it was truly ready for its public debut.” [Salesforce…
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…