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I was recently asked, how can I evangelise NetZero & sustainability yet be happy to use AI (mostly Copilot) many times per day given that data centres use above 2% -3% of the world’s electricity? While asked in jest, it’s a valid question, so Copilot and I did the maths… Energy use per query A […]
AI has become great at many things; it can even transform terrible handwriting into typewritten text. I share the journey of discovery from scrawl to near perfect transcription.
There’s a need for Human In The Loop (HITL) when using AI Agents, but also consider the role of AIITL when people need supervision.
This blog describes a method for separating ‘proper’ templates from ‘kind-of’ templates in SharePoint libraries, using the file extension and some nifty column formatting courtesy of Microsoft Copilot.
You want to open PDFs into Acrobat so you can sign them, add comments etc.
Your browser wants to open them in its PDF viewer which can’t do that.
This blog tells you how to be the victor in this mighty battle.
Some individuals prefer video content for learning, while others find written text more efficient. This blog details a quest to convert a messy video transcript into readable text using AI tools. Various attempts with Copilot and ChatGPT are explored, highlighting the potential for AI to transform video and audio content into professional written material.
Are AIs sufficiently ethical? Definitely not, but not for the reasons you might think. The question is, what to do about it.
Should we halt AI research. Apparently, Geoffrey Hinton thinks so and resigned from Google. But is that what he really did, said and believes? There’s always more under the headlines.
The next generation of AI is upon us. This has been accompanied be fear, hysteria and scary headlines. Should we be afraid of our AIs and what should we do next.
In this short blog I talk about an option to provide signposting within a Teams area to channels and tabs elsewhere in Teams.
Keyboard shortcuts are built into Microsoft Teams and, to an extent to SharePoint Online. This is a useful list of them.
The question of whether you need backup when everything is in the cloud continues to prompt debate. The debate continues here. Some light has been shed…
