Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 14Oct2024

Best business article(s) I read this week…

• Product leadership in the age of AI

  This is a McKinsey & Company interview with Inbal Shani, chief product officer at Twilio, wherein she discusses the challenges of introducing AI into products, its impact on customer experience, and how to deal with the hype surrounding AI.

• Companies had fun experimenting with AI; now they have to show the returns

  This article summarizes discussions held at the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Network Summit about what technology leaders have learned about AI and the need for AI projects to begin creating value.

Best technical article(s) I read this week…

• Measuring Human Contribution in AI-Assisted Content Generation

  This article presents a new framework for measuring human contributions in AI-assisted content generation—an increasingly relevant issue in performance measurement. The authors’ framework is grounded in information theory. It quantifies human contribution by comparing the mutual information between human input and AI-generated content with the self-information of the AI output. Through experiments across multiple creative domains, the study demonstrates that this method effectively distinguishes varying levels of human input in AI-assisted outputs.

Other items I found valuable/interesting…

• Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in Machine Learning

  The scientists applied tools from physics to train artificial neural networks to recognize patterns in large data sets, making machine learning tasks like facial recognition and language translation possible.

• DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold

  The DeepMind team was awarded their share of the prize for their work in predicting protein structures in 3D (using AlphaFold). The duo shared their prize with David Baker for his work in computational protein design (computational intelligence is another Collaborative Intelligence technology).

• How digital innovation is reshaping healthcare in the Middle East

  This World Economic Forum article provides an overview of how health systems in the Middle East are using many technologies, including Digital Twins and Artificial Intelligence, to improve (transform) healthcare in the region.

Coolest thing I saw…

• SpaceX Super Heavy Booster’s Successful Test Launch/Return to Earth

  This isn’t about AI, but space travel is cool. SpaceX released photos and a video of its launch from its Starbase facility in Texas. The rocket was fired, and seven minutes later, it landed back on Earth (with the help of a mechanical arm).

A company that caught my eye…

• InFactory

  The company, which fact-checks generative AI, recently closed a $4M seed round. It caught my eye because I have long been a proponent of finding opportunities by offering valuable complementary services within a business ecosystem centered on a rapidly growing platform (in this case, generative AI).