ChatGPT Gets Chatty!
This month I’ve done a series on OpenAI’s generative text model, ChatGPT—simple use cases to try out, its current limitations and problems, and how it might change the ways we think, learn and operate. Now it’s time to let Chatty (my nickname for the übersyllabic chatbot) speak for itself. To demonstrate the kinds of responses…
ASRmageddon: What Happened and How We Responded
On January 13th, Microsoft deployed a new definitions update for Microsoft Defender. This caused an issue for some users, as Defender began to flag and delete shortcuts in the “C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs” folder on devices with the Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) rule “Block Win32 API calls from Office macro” set to Block. The widespread nature of this…
A Step in the Evolution of Human-Machine Relationships
The essay is dead. Programming is dead. Google is dead. Have you heard any of these statements (or perhaps more along those lines?) in regard to the effects of powerful generative AI models like ChatGPT? Before we gather at the cemetery, let’s consider a quote by Florida Scott-Maxwell: “Every seed destroys its container, or else…
The Problem(s) with ChatGPT
ChatGPT has quickly become a big buzzword, and by now many of us have given the generative AI model a try. We’ve been amazed at how eloquently it can write. We’ve marveled at that cursor laying out an answer in less time than it took us to formulate the question. We’ve brainstormed ways it can…
ChatGPT Use Cases You Haven’t Thought of
When we published a blog about GPT-3 last year, we thought it would be fun to have the generative AI model itself write parts of the article. With the release of the new GPT3.5 update’s ChatGPT at the end of November, there’s been an explosion of attention on AI-generated text, with many authors bringing it…
2022 Breakthroughs and What They’ll Mean for 2023
We’ve had a lot of big innovations and discoveries this year, and some of them are pretty mind-boggling. The ways they’ll impact our future will be intriguing, amazing—and sometimes scary—to see. One thing is for sure: there’s huge potential in advancements that have recently been made. With the right path-forging and responsible use, these could…
What Will Tomorrow’s IT Workers Look Like?
Technology is evolving rapidly, and so is the field of IT. Given the last couple years of pandemic upheaval, today’s slippery job market, and big advancements in AI, workplaces are changing. IT workers are perhaps the most ready and eager group to meet this change, tending to be forward-thinking and adoptive of new innovations and…
5 Innovative Technologies that are Changing Healthcare
In 1953, my grandmother gave birth to twins in the backseat of her car. She lived far away from the hospital and barely made it there in time to deliver the first one in the parking lot. Everyone was in for a surprise after that, because in those days ultrasounds hadn’t even been invented and…
Giving Data Meaning with Data Storytelling
There’s more data out there than ever before, and today’s organizations have tools to glean large amounts of it that can lead to great business benefits. But without the right analysis and data storytelling, all of that information can remain a jumbled heap that doesn’t translate into any action. Many data analysts who have backgrounds…
Ransomware as a Service? A Dark Web Economy for Cybercrime
We know that ransomware continues to be a big (and costly) problem to those who are targeted. Just who is carrying out these attacks, and how? Much of the ransomware activity taking place today does so through an interconnected network of actors working in a gig-like economy. Malicious actors with little more than a laptop…
Happy Employees Mean Happy Customers—and Higher Revenue
Companies are often looking to improve customer experience and satisfaction as an overall business strategy. There are a number of ways to achieve this, such as keeping open communication with clients and striving to make the answer “yes” when customers have ideas or requests. But research also tells us there’s another avenue that starts even closer to home:…
Can Blockchain Revolutionize the Scientific Process?
In terms of promise and success, blockchain technologies have been all over the map this year. Use cases for the arts have flourished, and new platforms allowing things like NFT trading for theater fans have emerged. Cryptocurrency, blockchain’s original purpose, has been on some big rollercoasters—most recently culminating in the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, which is likely…