What a wonderful year it’s been. After delivering more than 4,000 hours of AI training for business, I’m putting the laptop down and having a break. But as always, I’ve got some exciting announcements for the New Year so stay tuned!

Tired of Perplexity and other Generative AI surfacing untrustworthy sites when searching for stats? Try adding this to your prompt: "Use only top‑tier consultancies, regulators, and academic journals where possible and avoid vendor blogs unless they cite primary research”

Does anyone have recommendations for tools to use for a personalized AI assistant? By which I mean that the data remains your own. It could be notes you have taken over the years, standard operating procedures, customer interactions, whatever. But the key thing is that it is your own and is not shared (as it would be with ChatGPT). For example, I have collected a huge amount of information in Evernote and documents over the years, and it would be nice to treat that as a knowledge base.

The possibilities for deliberately seeding biased material into the data used by LLMs should scare all of us. It's bad enough that there is no check on the data they are trained on, the fact that it would be easy for bad actors to insert untruths makes it even more worrying. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timnit-gebru-7b3b407_is-it-too-late-activity-7405002107143122945-0XrF?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAAOP88B8KLjjojR_uNbIYndR1BOBO2mHyI

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has announced a significant partnership with Google DeepMind that places AI at the centre of national growth and productivity. As part of this agreement, British scientists will gain priority access to some of the most advanced AI tools in the world and this signals strong government trust in Google DeepMind as a long-term strategic partner. Other potential partnership benefits include: Clean energy innovation: DeepMind will work with the government on AI-enabled research in areas such as fusion energy. Smarter public services: Gemini for Government will be used to increase productivity through automation. AI in education: Development of a Gemini model for teachers to support skills and workforce readiness. Responsible AI: Close collaboration with the UK’s AI Security Institute to ensure safe and transparent deployment. Faster commercial innovation: A new automated AI research and robotics lab will accelerate discovery in materials science, energy and healthcare, strengthening the path from research to industry. Here's the full story: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ai-to-accelerate-national-renewal-and-growth-as-google-deepmind-backs-uk-tech-and-science-sectors