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  • AI explained and 4 simple ways to use it in your business

    AI explained and 4 simple ways to use it in your business

    AI or Artificial Intelligence has been all over the news as online tools have emerged that can do a variety of impressive things in the creative space such as copywriting, writing code, creating videos and images and much more.

    On a more technical level, AI is being used in medical applications for assisting doctors during surgeries or identifying suspicious tissue or masses in diagnostic images. The car you drive may be using AI through GPS to help you navigate a safer or more efficient route or for specific vehicles, autonomous driving. Advances in robotics grow via AI input each day, from minute applications such as cleaning robots to complex sensors that take in data and react to it in real time to make equipment used by a wide variety of sectors much safer or more efficient.

    Even on your mobile device and computer, AI input is found in abundance. The spam filter in your email? Powered by AI. Face recognition on your phone? That’s also AI.

    Our prompt was “Red haired girl sitting at desk with computer and cat.”

    We’ve found AI tends to have a negative association to it as well however, with some worried it may allow their employer to replace them for a computerized facsimile, some worried about the implications when it comes to privacy and autonomy and others worried on a grander scale what it will mean for humanity if AI ever reaches the level of being truly sentient.

    We would like to put some of these fears to bed, in a nutshell AI is exactly what we as a society make of it. When it comes to the creative pieces that have emerged from AI it’s a mistake to believe that those creations were spawned solely via technological input.

    In reality AI conjures up images, songs, and video by compiling the vast resource that is available to it via the internet. It takes human creations and fragments them to recreate them into something that matches your text prompt. The stylistic choice, the colors, the layout – all of this is garnered from human ingenuity that is then reiterated for your viewing consumption,via machine learning.

    The impressive part of AI is not the end product it provides to you, it is its ability to take so much information and compile it into something even remotely coherent. Even this is not something that’s spawned from the ether but is instead the net result of many decades of talented engineers with one goal in mind – to make many jobs simpler and safer to do.

    AI will not replace human ingenuity; it will do as any tool is designed to do – help us do more.

    Now that we have hopefully put some of your fears about AI to bed, you may be wondering how you can use AI in your business? Well, we have a few suggestions.

    1. Images. As we showcased above, AI is excellent for creating graphics that match your text input and can add a little bit of context or pizzaz to your designs or documents. Top Recommendation: AI
    2. Social Media Posts. If you own a business, you should ideally be posting to your social media platforms every weekday if possible (or at least three times a week). However, managing to squeeze content creation into your day to day can feel like a major chore. That’s where our top recommendation comes in, Canva allows you to create social media posts quickly and easily resize them for whichever platform you’re on (so you can make one post go further). Top Recommendation: Canva
    3. Editing: Just take a great group photo at work but realize there’s something really distracting in the background? Or maybe the colors are off, or it’s a little blurry? All highly fixable via Adobe Express, and you don’t need to be a graphic design expert. Best of all, it’s free. Top Recommendation: Adobe Express
    4. Text Prompts: While we don’t recommend leaving all of your content writing to AI, it can be a useful tool to help you get started or to help you reword a paragraph to be more persuasive or engaging. Top Recommendation: AnyWord

    Of course, it would be remiss of us if we didn’t mention you can get the best of human ingenuity and technological prowess by partnering with a technology service provider like Valley Techlogic. We pride ourselves on being at the forefront of technological innovation, and that includes advancements in AI.

    If you would like to learn more about how we can help you navigate this space and utilize automation and AI in your business today, you can schedule a consultation with us here.

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  • Bing’s ChatGPT Chatbot had some unexpected conversations with customers this week, plus 3 Chatbots we CAN recommend for your website

    Bing’s ChatGPT Chatbot had some unexpected conversations with customers this week, plus 3 Chatbots we CAN recommend for your website

    While Microsoft has been somewhat hush hush on the exact amount of their investment into the creator of ChatGPT, OpenAI (with some estimates nearing $10 billion).  It is clear that they’re going all in on AI and looking towards the future by already integrating it into their search engine Bing, via a new chat bot feature.

    The results have been, to say the least, unexpected. While in the majority of cases the bot responds appropriately to the prompts and provides helpful information, there were some instances this week where the opposite happened.

    Including a conversation about the new movie Avatar: Way of the Water in which case the bot got confused about what year it was and insisted it was still 2022, punctuating it’s arguments with the user with “I’m a good Bing bot”.

    In another case, a New York Times writer hearing about the unusual way the bot was sometimes responding, led him to holding a conversation with it for over 2 hours. The bizarre results of the lengthy conversation culminated in the bot trying to convince him they were in love and that he should leave his wife.

    This highlights the complex nature of AI in its current form, many think AI is advanced hardware working at full capacity to create something brand new to human-kind. When in reality it’s a vast collection of what humans have already put onto the internet scrambled together and supported by algorithms to be readily available upon a human prompt. You have to imagine having the full capacity of the internet at your fingertips – both the good and the bad.

    That’s why AI has been able to pass the Bar exam and also why it has also responded very strangely to simple prompts as in the Bing example, because like the internet it’s a mixed bag.

    In response to the news Microsoft has limited their chatbot to prevent more unsettling conversations, with 5 user prompts on the same topic the bot will now respond with “I prefer not to talk about this topic.”.

    AI can be very useful but it’s definitely not a replacement for all human led activity, especially when it comes to engaging with your customers.

    That’s why we have our top 3 picks for live chat options that will improve customer engagement (with no unexpected results):

    1. LiveChat: This is the one we personally use and we enjoy the features it has including an “attention grabber” which is an animated .gif that grabs customers attention and the ability to instigate conversations with visitors. It also keeps a record of who has tried to chat and allows customer service agents to “take over” a conversation when it’s appropriate to. It also includes customizable branding (all of the chatbots on our list do).
    2. Olark is another good option, like LiveChat it keeps track of the conversations happening on your website but it also offers analytics based on those conversations so you can track customer outcomes. It also offers many integrations with popular products such as Google Analytics, Hubspot, Mailchimp, Salesforce and more.
    3. Tawk.to is a free live chat option that still has some very nice features, including monitoring customers on your website and being able to answer chats from a mobile device. You can even share your screen if you’re trying to assist a customer in finding something.

    We believe in answering customers live which is why we have Live Chat available to our customers, with live service reps on our website and a dedicated dispatcher to answer customer phone calls. Technology advice like what’s provided in this article is just one of the ways we help our clients, if you would like to learn more about obtaining technology support for your business schedule a consultation with us today.

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  • ChatGPT is allowing even novice wannabe hackers to construct their own malware

    ChatGPT is allowing even novice wannabe hackers to construct their own malware

    ChatGPT is a power AI chatbot that allows the user to communicate a question to it and receive a very thorough answer on any topic the user can dream up. Created by OpenAI and already fielding massive investment offers even from companies like Microsoft, they’ve had a ton of buzz in the news both positive and negative.

    It first came under scrutiny when it became apparent the tool was great for generating lots of content quickly, including articles that students could use and submit (though the quality of these articles can vary greatly).

    This is because tools like ChatGPT scrub great swaths of the internet for their content. Whether it’s being asked to write a paper on the Civil War or generate a Picasso-esque picture, it takes the prompt and quickly compiles the database of knowledge it has built up from data readily available online and provides the user with what they’ve asked for.

    There has been a lot of discussion around the future of AI and the ramifications of copyright, particularly when it comes to original written works or art, but today we’d like to focus on ChatGPT’s scripting capabilities and the potential pros and cons.

    As leaders in the IT space we were already aware of the buzz around ChatGPT’s scripting capabilities, with some programmers praising it’s ability to create simple scripts and the potential it had to make aspects of their jobs easier. While others lamented what it meant for the programming role as a whole or whether the code output was really “up to snuff” especially when used in real world applications.

    It’s become clear there’s a niche for ChatGPT in creating low level tools, but this unfortunately also includes malware and encryption scripts – which often aren’t very complicated and easily deployed via phishing type scams.

    As reported by Axios, there is already evidence that hackers are using ChatGPT in the creation of malware or in improving their existing attempts to create new malware scripts. There is also evidence that it’s being used by less technically inclined people to create malware they otherwise would not be able to make.

    OpenAI has made statements that they are looking to improve their product and prevent it from being abused, in the interim we would advise users to be especially cautious when clicking on links or downloading files. We wrote an article on how to spot phishing clues online that might be worth a review.

    For businesses who have made getting serious about cybersecurity a primary goal in 2023, here are 6 ways Valley Techlogic can help.

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