Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 05Apr2024

Best business article(s) I read this week…

• AI Has Lost Its Magic

  This isn’t a business article. It’s an essay from The Atlantic that resonated with me. (If you cannot access the article on the website, here’s a link to the article on Apple News.)

• Navigating GenAI’s ethical risks to score competitive value

  This article, from a digital transformation researcher at the International Institute for Management Development, covers some of the same ground covered elsewhere. Still, it contains several novel insights and questions.

Best technical article(s) I read this week…

• A multi-sensory Interaction Framework for Human-Cyber–Physical Systems
  This article presents a different take on collaborative intelligence—a Human-Cyber-Physical System (HCPS) that “emphasizes the expansion of human capabilities.” The authors describe an HPCS as “an intelligent composite system with a human core element, aiming to achieve a profound integration of three dimensions for enhanced efficiency and effectiveness.”

Other item(s) of note…

• Musicians are up in arms about generative AI

  The article discusses Stability AI’s new Stable Audio 2.0 music generator and how musicians have responded to its release. The profile provides an example that can be generalized to other professions as the capabilities of generative AI increase rapidly. (If you cannot access the article on the website, here’s a link to the article on Apple News.)

• GenAI and Its Malicious Impact on the Cyber-Physical Threat Landscape
  This article details how generative AI is being used to launch “AI-powered cyber-attacks.” It also provides brief descriptions of ways to defend against such attacks.

• Using digital twins to convert abandoned mines to clean energy

  This is an interesting application of digital twins by Green Gravity, an Australian start-up. Part of the article focuses on the company rather than the application. Still, it’s another example of how these technologies can significantly alter how we do things today.

Coolest thing I saw…

• Samsung’s Bespoke AI Refrigerator

  This may not appeal to everyone, but it monitors the freshness of your food and suggests recipes that use the things in your refrigerator, taking dietary restrictions into account. It sounds pretty cool to me.