Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 07Jul2023

Best business article(s) I read this week…

• Companies That Replace People with AI Will Get Left Behind

  The authors make the argument, which I also make, that a company’s AI efforts should be focused on redesigning work in ways that improve productivity and innovation rather than on worker displacement.
  

Best technical article(s) I read this week…

• SwiftSage: A Generative Agent with Fast and Slow Thinking for Complex Interactive Tasks

  Last week, I cited a paper that proposed a tree-of-thought approach to System 2 thinking. SwiftSage, developed by the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the University of Southern California, combines System 1 and System 2 thinking to “solve real-world complex tasks.” The corresponding GitHub repo is here.
  

Other item(s) of note…

• Microsoft and LinkedIn Launch New AI Skills Training (for free)
  In an attempt to up-skill or re-skill people to meet the growing global demand for AI skills, Microsoft and LinkedIn are launching a free program to teach generative AI skills. Those who complete the coursework will earn a Professional Certificate in Generative AI.

Coolest thing I saw…

• Robot ‘chef’ learns to recreate recipes from watching food videos

  Researchers at Cambridge University taught a robot how to make simple recipes by watching videos of the researchers making the same recipes. I’m a “foodie,” so I thought this was cool. You may not.