Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 28Oct2024
Best business article(s) I read this week…
This article, by best-selling author Seth Godin, summarizes key points from his latest book, This is Strategy: Make Better Plans. While the short headings below may not provide much guidance (you’ll have to read the article), they are:
Refuse false proxies.
Choose your customers, choose your future.
Choose your team.
Big problems demand small solutions.
Best technical article(s) I read this week…
On the use of Large Language Models in Model-Driven Engineering
Model-driven engineering (MDE) uses models to specify, analyze, and produce complex software systems. This paper describes how LLMs can be used to automate modeling tasks and develop and test software systems.
Other items I found valuable/interesting…
MIT Technology Review has created a humorous look at the state of AI. It plots advancements on a 2x2 matrix ranging from “Doom” to “Utopia” (y-axis) and “Hype” to “Reality” (x-axis).
With AI, Dead Celebrities Are Working Again—And Making Millions
This article describes how companies are contracting with the estates of dead celebrities to license their voices or likenesses to create new offerings (such as Julie Garland narrating The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) using generative AI.
The AI expert who says artificial general intelligence is nonsense
This is an interview with Neil Lawrence, DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge, about his new book The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI. Lawrence makes the case that we can make the most of both by better understanding human intelligence and how wildly different it is from AI.
Siemens USA CEO explains how digital twins work to optimize manufacturing
In this interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Siemens USA CEO Barbara Humpton describes how manufacturers can benefit from using digital twins to solve many manufacturing challenges before they “begin to bend metal.”
Coolest thing I saw…
I’m unsure whether this will work as advertised, so it may not be cool, but it is interesting. The ring is a smart wearable that uses GPT 4o to provide such things as Q&A and real-time translation. It has a 3-axis gyroscope and accelerometer that can interpret 16 gestures, so you can use it as a mouse, among other things.
A company that caught my eye…
Newcleo
The AI revolution needs power. London-based Newcleo hopes to provide it. The company, which is focused on developing advanced nuclear energy technologies, raised nearly $148 million in a Series A round.