IT Essentials: The fungal IT network

Shadow IT grows best in darkness and solitude

Tom Allen
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Like mushrooms, shadow IT can sprout in unexpected places
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Like mushrooms, shadow IT can sprout in unexpected places

In just over a month, ChatGPT will have been live for a whole year - but the world is still getting to grips with generative AI.

This week the BBC, that bastion of British soft power, announced it would begin exploring generative AI in journalism. Does that represent a continuation of the innovation that drove colour TV into...

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