Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 22Sep2023

Sep 24, 2023

Some employees are destroying value. Others are building it. Do you know the difference?
This is not an article about collaborative intelligence (CI). But, while working with clients to re-skill or up-skill their talent to take advantage of CI, we’ve run into this issue repeatedly. This article provides an interesting framework to think about the various types of employees you have today, and what to do about them.

Orchestrating Human-Machine Designer Ensembles during Product Innovation
The authors provide examples of how companies such as Moderna and GM are using intelligent machines and human designers to improve product innovation. (Access to the full article requires a subscription—sorry.)

Abba is making more than $2 million a week touring as avatars
This article was published on Sept. 4, but I just saw it this week. (Scroll down to the middle of the article to see the headline.) It describes a daily show that runs in London showing avatars of the members of ABBA backed by a 10-piece band. It has generated more than $150M in revenue. The technologies deployed could provide a means for old bands to continue to “tour” for as long as there is demand for their music.

MagicAvatar: Multimodal Avatar Generation and Animation
I’m not sure what to make of this. In this paper, the authors outline a means of separating avatar generation from motion programming. This allows you to add your own “identity” to the generated video. Thus, you could supply a photo of yourself and add prompts to produce a video of you performing martial arts moves, even if you don’t know how. Here’s a video that accompanies the paper.

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