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Linked – No One Wants To Talk About These 3 Ways AI Copilots Will Reshape Learning
ByMike McBride March 5, 2024March 7, 2024 Reading Time: 1 minute

I’ve had an opportunity lately to play around with some AI tools, including Microsoft Copilot for 365, and I have to admit, when I have a question about how to do something, I ask Copilot. I ask Copilot because:

It’s right there while I’m working.

I don’t have to bring in another tool or trainer.

I don’t have to take a class or watch a YouTube video to learn a new skill. (Imagine a Copliot prompt like – “How would I do a VLOOKUP with this data using ID as the unique identifier?”)

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AI Junk Already Ruining Dating Apps?
ByMike McBride February 28, 2024February 27, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Tinder Using Video Selfies to Verify User Identities Because of AI Selfies

Of course, the problem is that short videos are going to be easy enough to create using AI as well, so what will be the next step dating apps have to take to verify the identity of their users and make sure customers aren’t spending all their time on the app talking to fake AI-generated profiles? Or is this the end of that entire business model?

Don’t think dating apps are the only thing at risk with AI. Any online service based on contributions by authors, artists, musicians, etc., is at risk of being overrun by AI junk. In some cases, it’s probably already happening.

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Linked – Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
ByMike McBride February 19, 2024February 19, 2024 Reading Time: 1 minute

We can’t trust Google. It’s been a long time since they tried to live up to the original mantra of “Don’t be evil.” A LONG time.

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Linked – The Making of a Myth: Big Tech, Billionaires, and the Wild West
ByMike McBride February 13, 2024February 15, 2024 Reading Time: 3 minutes

When Big Tech bros talk about being the cowboys of the modern age, the myth is what they want you to believe. They want us to believe that they are so brilliant and creative that they succeed without assistance and will solve any problem without needing oversight or regulation. They’ll forget to mention that the Internet they are building on only exists because of government programs or that many of them have gotten plenty of handouts from government and private equity. They will also not like to be reminded of the many ways they have overstepped and done real harm.

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Linked – Wait, is cloud bad?
ByMike McBride October 25, 2023October 25, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Maybe the big thing is that most companies are not tech companies. They use tech, and they have an IT department, but it’s not their core function. If it’s not your core function do you want to be in the data center business?

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Linked – Expectations Debt
ByMike McBride September 26, 2023September 26, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The term Expectation Debt fits a lot of what I was talking about earlier this year. This is a paragraph about Amazon, but you could write the same thing about Microsoft, Google, Zoom, and many other tech companies.

Expectations were so high in 2021 that investors and employees had to achieve extraordinary things just to break even. When results were merely good, they felt terrible.

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