Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 25Aug2023
Best business article(s) I read this week…
Artificial Intelligence: A Strategy to Harness its Power Through Organizational Learning
This article was published recently in the Journal of Business Strategy, but it’s been available online since January 2022 — before the rise of Generative AI. It’s still an interesting piece on using human/machine collaboration to build new core competencies via organizational learning.
Best technical article(s) I read this week…
Toward Artificial General Intelligence — What Is Missing?
This article, written by the Associate Director of the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech, contemplates what it will take to create Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Other item(s) of note…
AI likely to spell end of traditional school classroom, leading expert says
This article was published last month in The Guardian, but I just discovered it this week. Its title is self-explanatory.
A high-performance neuroprosthesis for speech decoding and avatar control
Researchers from UCSF published this technical paper describing how they used brain electrodes and AI to enable a woman to speak via her brainwaves. The woman had been speechless for the past 18 years due to paralysis from a stroke.
This video provides a non-technical summary and a demonstration.
The coolest thing I saw…
LIDA: Automatic Generation of Visualizations and Infographics with LLMs
This isn’t for a general audience, but it is cool. It is a Python library that was released as open-source by Microsoft. If you click on the link and scroll down, you can watch a video (no audio) of the tool in action using weather data.
Since it is open-sourced, you can build your own version and use it on your own data.

