The Proliferation of AI (a chart)

 

AI is not really Artificial Intelligence... Yet...

While today's chatbots aren't really "artificial intelligences" because they're not thinking, sentient entities that truly know and understand the world as humans do, a generative AI chatbot "can look at a stream of words and figure out what the person is trying to say, and respond to that prompt or that request,"

Some Generative AI Chatbots include:

• Google Bard
• Claude
• Character
• ChatGPT
• Microsoft CoPilot
• Dall.e (Text to Images)
• Pika (Text to Video)

But most Americans (82%) haven't even tried ChatGPT and over half say they're more concerned than excited by the increased use of AI in their daily life, according to the Pew Research Center. Researchers there have started identifying jobs that may be affected in some way by generative AI. They include budget analysts, tax preparers, data entry keyers, law clerks, technical writers and web developers. Think roles whose tasks include "getting information" and "analyzing data or information," Pew said.

"Despite significant uncertainty around the potential of generative AI, its ability to generate content that is indistinguishable from human-created output and to break down communication barriers between humans and machines reflects a major advancement with potentially large macroeconomic effects," Goldman Sachs' economists concluded.

"You should at least try [these tools] to get some idea beyond the news headline of what they can and can't do," said David Carr, a senior insights manager at Similarweb. "This is going to be a big part of how the internet changes and how our whole experience of work and computing changes over the next few years." 

How to speak AI

 AI is literal and not intentional, so responses to your query may be difficult to grok (understand something intuitively or by empathy). The way you phrase your queries to an AI can help get more meaningful results. Here are some basic tips when tasking AI.

1. Specify output format... Do you want a table, chart, bullets, graphical or pictorial representation of AI's feedback?

2. Iterate with multiple attempts... Tell AI to make specific changes to the output including tabular alignments, add headings, wrapping text to make it look most meaningful to you.

3. Use long or multiple prompts... Output HTML document, Make Headings dark green, highlight light gray, order by length, include this, limit to top 4, align each data point

4. Provide explicit constraints... List all, Bold names, don't include, this combined with the Iterative approach can get you responses in the most concise form.

5. Tell it number of words, sentences, characters... In 50 words, in 2 sentences, in less than 200 characters.

6. Wrong answers, rephrase way to ask... AI can 'misunderstand' the question and therefore give a non sequitur response. Language is confusing enough (especially English). Be more specific if responses are not following the topic desired.

AI is still in it's infancy and you need to lower your complexity to communicate successfully. AI won't do what you want right out of the gate and can take some time and 'discussions' in your AI session.

Lock Screen Background Image Information

This may not pertain to non domain (Windows Enterprise Edition) but I am often asked to enable the Locked Screen Background window 10 image information. Here are the steps we used at our company domain:

User asked for Lock Screen Windows Background image information. To enable this you must disable Ctrl-Alt-Delete keyboard sequence:

·         At a DOS command prompt, type Control Userpasswords2

·         In the User Accounts popup form, go to the Advanced tab

·         Clear the Require users to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete option and click OK

Now check if tips are shown, by typing WINDOWS+L to go to the Lock Screen.

Resources: 

From <https://superuser.com/questions/1112002/how-to-activate-and-deactivate-windows-10-lock-screen-spotlight-hints/1112013#1112013>

Also see < https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/windows-spotlight >

Microsoft Collaboration Tools

Microsoft constant changing of technologies as they purchase one company and integrate another into their product line, SharePoint has been a long term investment that continues to evolve. Evolving is good and bad. Technology as a whole is changing more rapidly everyday and keeping up, upgrading and learning is becoming more time consuming than ever if you need to use these tools to keep up.


At this year's Insight Conference, Microsoft revealed the latest on slot of changes, directions and innovations. In one area, Collaboration with Instant messaging is becoming more focused as purchased technologies are incorporated and changed to fit Microsoft's perceived needs.

Choice is good. But too much choice, especially when it comes to collaboration tools, has been a problem for Microsoft.


This isn't news to customers, partners or Microsoft execs themselves. But at the company's Ignite IT Pro conference in Orlando this week, Microsoft execs took a step to try to clarify the company's strategy and messaging in this area.


Microsoft Office 365 Marketing chief Ron Markezich kicked off the conference this week with a slide entitled "Microsoft 365 Teamwork: Where to Start a Conversation." That slide attempts to do what Microsoft initially attempted with a 60-plus-page whitepaper: Clarify which collaboration tools customers should use when.


The slide, which features SharePoint -- and its files, sites and content storage at the center -- is broken down into the "inner loop" of people with whom one collaborates on core projects and the "outer loop," or those with whom one connects openly across an organization. Teams is Microsoft's preferred/suggested tool for inner loop interactions, while Yammer is its solution for outer loop ones.
Outlook email remains an ubiquitous tool for targeted communications in this scenario. And Office 365 Groups acts as Microsoft's cross-application group membership platform.

Earlier this week at Ignite, Microsoft officially announced its plans to phase out gradually Skype for Business in favor of Microsoft Teams, its Slack competitor. That makes for one less collaboration tools in the Microsoft mix.


Microsoft officials talked up the company's plans for making SharePoint and OneDrive more robust collaboration and communication platforms during various Ignite sessions. They also shared some new SharePoint stats. In May 2017, 250,000 organizations were using SharePoint, and as of September, that number is now 300,000, according to Microsoft. Of those totals, 50 percent were using SharePoint Online in the cloud back in May. Now 65 percent are doing so, company officials said.


They noted that the coming OneDrive Files on Demand (aka its Placeholders replacement which will be part of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update) will include rich thumbnails and previews for a variety of file types. In fact, Microsoft is going to support 275 new file formats for everything from Visio and .zipfiles, to 3D and medical imaging ones, as part of Files on Demand.


Microsoft is adding the ability to share content and files externally without requiring users to have Office 365 accounts. Instead, the company will use email verification to set up a communication channel.

In addition, Microsoft is adding more than 100 new cloud and on-premises connectors and Web parts as part of its ongoing SharePoint updates, as well as a new SharePoint Hub sites to make intra-site navigation and connection easier. Teams integration is coming to SharePoint, as well, as is a new SharePoint Administration Center UX.


Microsoft officials shared more about what's next for Yammer during sessions at the show, as well, including availability of a new native Web part for Yammer


http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-tries-to-stem-its-self-made-collaboration-tool-confusion/

How to View Website Source Codes on iPad / iPhone

More Apple stuff more often finds short comings when compared to the desktop. One example is the ability in the iOS Safari to view the source code of a web page. Desktop versions build this ability into each browser tool available but for the iPad or iPhone, this feature is missing. Here is how to put a View Source feature into your iPad or iPhone:

You’re using your iPad to browse the Web and you’re curious to view the source of a webpage but don’t have the options to do so. The next thing you know, you’re swapping back to your Mac or PC to open up the same website to check the Page Source. Now if that isn’t called a hassle, I don’t know what is.

To make things easier for all iPad and iPhone users out there, here’s a trick to allow you to view the source of a webpage straight from your mobile device. Take note that the code you will be using will redirect you to the creator’s website, where the source is presented in highlighted syntax and clickable URL for easier reading.

Set up ‘View Source’ Bookmark

1. To get started, open your mobile Safari on your Apple device and bookmark the page you are reading by clicking on the bookmark button. Instead of the page name, name it ‘View Source’ and then click ‘Save’.
   
   

   
   
2. Open this (http://ole.michelsen.dk/viewsource/bookmarklet.min.js), select all and copy the script.
   
   

   
   
3. Tap on the bookmark icon at the top left part of your mobile Safari browser, and tap on ‘Edit’
   
   

   
   
4. Tap on the ‘View Source’ bookmark you created in step 1.
   
   

   
   
5. Now paste the bookmarklet javascript you copied in step 2 into the URL bar and tap ‘Done’.
   
   

   
   

View Source On Safari on iPad and iPhone

Now that you have created a new bookmark called ‘View Source’, to view source of any webpage, open any site from your Safari browser, tap on the bookmark icon and then tap on the ‘View Source’ bookmark.

This bookmark shortcut will send a request to the creator’s server for processing and then open a new browser tab for you to view the source in highlighted syntax.

Google Search Tricks

Google is taking over the world - What me worry? Naaaaa

Google search engine is perhaps the most used tool on the internet but only 15% of the requested searches are unique. Google has enhanced the search engine language parser to help you do some common other assisted things like:

• A Calculator

• A Dictionary

• Find a Title

• Convert Units

• Get the Weather Report

• Find with a specific file type (i.e. PowerPoint)

• Confine search to a particular web address

• Find time in any timezone

• Exclude search items

• Track a specific air flight

• Ask for information about a website