Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 26Jan2024
Best business article(s) I read this week…
Will business leaders eventually be replaced by AI?
This Harvard Business Review article provides insights from a survey of 600 employees who were asked, “Would you be comfortable getting AI-driven performance feedback?” One of the surprising findings is that “employees already have more confidence in AI than in their human bosses in certain areas of leadership.” Fortunately, and not surprisingly, they conclude that “the best leaders can’t be replaced by AI.”
Data Storytelling in the Generative AI Era
This Sloan Management Review article describes four different decision-making scenarios and highlights when and when not to use generative AI to support storytelling with data.
Digital Twins: The next frontier of factory optimization
This McKinsey & Company article describes how manufacturers are turning to digital twins to deal with supply chain shortages and other resource constraints with the goals of “rapidly scaling capacity, increasing resilience, and driving more efficient operations.”
Best technical article(s) I read this week…
Towards Autonomous Supply Chains
This paper, authored by a group from Cambridge University, is less technical than most listed in this section. It lays out the authors’ vision of a completely autonomous supply chain built using technologies such as AI, GPS, and the Internet of Things (IoT). The future may turn out differently than they envision, but this paper presents many things to consider.
Other item(s) of note…
A new AI system can solve complex geometry problems
Google DeepMind published an article in Nature describing AlphaGeometry, a new AI that can solve geometry problems. This is an important development because previous systems had difficulty with logical reasoning. According to the authors, the new system “approach[es] the performance of an average International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) gold medallist.”
Lecturers at UK university are now using AI-powered holograms
Lecturers at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom are testing holograms as a replacement for Zoom-based lectures. The university hopes the technology will increase student engagement and provide students with experience in immersive technologies that they will use in the future.
Coolest thing I saw…
This was widely publicized, so you may be aware of it already. It represents another step towards a functional telepresence capability (or a holodeck for Star Trek: The Next Generation fans).