Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 09Feb2024
Best business article(s) I read this week…
Find the AI Approach That Fits the Problem You’re Trying to Solve
This Harvard Business Review article presents a list of five questions to help business leaders determine which AI-driven approach is best among generative AI, other forms of deep learning, rule-based automation, and more traditional data analytics approaches, such as those used in Econometrics. They argue that if you take the time to find the right tool for the job, you’ll build a foundation upon which you can place future innovations. If you do not, you’ll churn and waste money on stranded investments.
This article requires a subscription but has an extended abstract worth reading. It describes how the use of AI to support clinical diagnoses caused “an unintentional but clinically significant change in practice“ that the authors term “induced belief revision.” The case study is specific to clinical diagnostics, but the findings are generalizable. We have to recognize how AI affects our decision-making and belief systems and then learn to adapt effectively to these influences.
Best technical article(s) I read this week…
Can Large Language Models Serve as Data Analysts?
The authors use a multi-modal approach to conducting qualitative data analysis with LLMs. Their application is in Software Engineering, but the high-level model they describe could be used in other domains. It’s a short article without much detail, but it is thought-provoking.
Other item(s) of note…
The Allen Institute for AI launches a new open language model platform
The research institute made OLMo 7B available. It is an “open, state-of-the-art large language model…that empowers researchers and developers to use the best and open models to advance the science of language models collectively.” The platform is built on AI2’s Dolma training set, which features a three trillion token open corpus for language model pre-training.
This is a McKinsey & Co. Chart of the Day showing the adoption of generative AI in the fashion industry.
Does Using AI Assistants Lead to Lower Code Quality?
A discussion of new research on LLMs’ effect on code quality and reuse.
The Path to Great AI for Human-Capable Robots
This article, written by the CEO of Collaborative Robotics, discusses the current challenges of building more human-like robots.Burger King uses generative AI to render their customers’ burger ideas
Burger King is running a contest where fans can submit ideas for their custom burgers (I saw a commercial for it but cannot find it online). In the commercial, the customers describe their burger, which gets built as they talk. I thought it looked like generative AI, so I investigated. It was. This is another example of how generative AI is changing marketing and advertising.
Coolest thing I saw…
An AI-powered something for yourself or your Valentine?
This device uses AI and computer vision to provide salon-quality manicures at home. Manicures may not be your thing, but it is another example of how AI, robotics, and other types of machine intelligence can impact many areas you may not have thought about yet. You should start thinking about them.