This week:
In this last issue of the year, I’m going to focus on 3 positive developments that may make 2025 safer and more productive for us all.
3 – Your browser will be more likely spot a scam web page
2 – Searching the web will be less painful
1 – AI-powered grannies will keep the scammers occupied
3 – Your browser will help protect you
“Google is using artificial intelligence to power a new Chrome scam protection feature that analyzes brands and the intent of pages as you browse the web.”
Summary: Google is testing an AI-driven feature in Chrome that analyzes web pages to detect potential scams. This tool uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to assess the brand and intent of a page, identifying deceptive content in real-time. When launched, this feature aims to enhance user security by warning against fraudulent websites.
So what? As online scams become more sophisticated, integrating AI into browsers should help us avoid or spot malicious sites.
Source: BleepingComputer
2 – Searching the web will be less painful
“We’re bringing search to all (logged in) free users of ChatGPT so that means it will be available globally in every platform where you use ChatGPT”
Summary: OpenAI has announced that the free version of ChatGPT now includes web search, enabling us all to skip the crap low-quality results returned by Google Search.
So what? If you are sick of the ads and generic AI-generated content now filling Google’s Search Results, I suggest you take a look at the functionality now freely available in ChatGPT. Or even better, try AI-driven search at www.Perplexity.AI (my current go-to search engine). 2025 will be the year that Google’s search monopoly ended.
Source: 12 Days of Open AI (YouTube)
1 – AI-powered grannies will keep the scammers occupied
“This film isn’t about getting scammed. It’s about getting even. Meet my friend Daisy.”
Summary: Virgin Media O2 in the UK recently unveiled ‘Daisy’, a state-of-the-art AI “Granny” whose mission it is to talk with fraudsters and waste as much of their time as possible with human-like rambling chat, to keep them away from real people. The video published by o2 is quite entertaining, and the snippets of conversations that ‘Daisy’ has had with scammers show how just how frustrated the scammers get!
So what? The more AI can be used to occupy these scammers, the less time they’ll have to target real people. Hopefully, a colleague of Daisy’s will be allowed answer all of our calls soon, so we can be protected from marketing calls too!
Source: Virgin Media 02 (YouTube)