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Gary Shewan

Gary Shewan

📍 UK

I'm a little suspicious

I’m starting to get a little suspicious of some of you folk with ‘AI’ in your titles. Over the weekend there was quite a bit of coverage of the EV Fella getting $6B in funding for his AI startup. Followed by a lot of ‘Ooo’ and ‘Ahh’ commentary. What

Say the quiet part out loud

Refreshing to see one of the big players (sort of) say the quiet part out loud: “There are still times it’s going to get it wrong, but I don’t think I would look at that and underestimate how useful it can be at the same time,” he said.

Google with a late night announcement

Ah late Friday announcements. Google have explained how they deleted Unisupers account - their $125billion pension fund customer in Australia causing two weeks of downtime “Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backupsUniSuper, a $135 billion pension account, details its cloud compute nightmare.Ars TechnicaRon Amadeo Now

Recall is insane

A few days ago I said ‘Wait and see’ about Microsoft’s announced Recall feature. Initial discussions were a bit too ‘Henny Penny’ for me. Sometimes it’s good to base things on facts. The security aspect is concerning. Snapshots seem to be protected only by disk encryption (which is

Good Interview to listen to

Meredith Whittaker Is always interesting to listen to. Worthwhile bookmarking this for your next coffee. Interview Of The Week: Meredith Whittaker, AI Ethics Expert - The InnovatorAI Ethics expert Meredith Whittaker talks about whether it is possible to have it All: Safe, Profitable, and Ethical AI?”The InnovatorJennifer L. Schenker

Recall is a bad idea

A few weeks ago I was quietly applauding Microsoft for a new focus on security. I suspect a test is imminent. Yesterday they introduced new laptops. Copilot+ with a feature called ‘Recall’ Microsoft wants to make Windows an AI operating system, launches Copilot+ PCs | TechCrunchMicrosoft unveiled a new lineup of

Words vs Deeds

Words and deeds, they count. If I don’t know you then that’s what I’m going to be looking for. It builds trust. Due diligence helps as well. (Unless you work in my team. Then it gets flipped around. You have trust immediately - it’s yours to

Excellent response by British Library

This would have been a good talk to listen to at CyberUK. Roly Keating (CEO of the British Library) explaining how bringing transparency and a little emotional intelligence into their communication following a ransomware attack became very important. British Library on why it kept it real in ransomware commsIt quickly

Which bits?

Many years ago, as a Postgraduate, I was studying Marine Science. One of the things we had to learn was how to take water quality tests. BOD (Biological Oxygen Demand) and working out dissolved oxygen. Ugh I remember it was at least four pages of written calculus and you ended

Not a surprise

This is not surprising or even news. People have been having a lot of fun bypassing for a while, and prompt injection is a real thing AI chatbots’ safeguards can be easily bypassed, say UK researchersFive systems tested were found to be ‘highly vulnerable’ to attempts to elicit harmful responsesThe