Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 15Mar2024
Best business article(s) I read this week…
To Do No Harm—And the Most Good—with AI in Healthcare
The authors present four criteria for using AI in healthcare and provide thought-provoking recommendations / “calls to action” regarding how healthcare providers can meet these criteria. The criteria for using AI are better health for all patients, better healthcare experience, lower costs of delivering care, and support for the healthcare workforce.
Best technical article(s) I read this week…
A Multi-Format Benchmark for Scientific Document Representations
The authors present SciRepEval, a benchmark for evaluating the representation of scientific documents in LLMs. This approach creates multiple representations (classification, regression, proximity-based ranking, and ad hoc search) of the document based on 24 diverse tasks, improving overall performance with no additional fine-tuning. Similar approaches could improve LLM performance across multiple domains.
Other item(s) of note…
Self-Driving Cars Take the Next Step: Freeways
Are you ready to share the road with self-driving cars? Alphabet's Waymo has started testing driverless rides on freeways in Phoenix, using employees as passengers. Waymo has just gained approval from California regulators to start charging for driverless rides on freeways in the Bay Area and parts of Los Angeles. I will be watching these developments with interest.
VR headsets can be hacked with an Inception-style attack
The article’s subtitle says it all: “Researchers managed to crack Meta’s Quest VR system, allowing them to steal sensitive information and manipulate social interactions.”
Creating digital twins of cityscapes
A Malaysian start-up, Graffiquo Asia, combines 3D modeling with digital twins to create accurate cityscapes that can be used in urban planning and other domains.
Why Walmart's quick success in generative AI search should have Google worried
Walmart’s CEO has been touting how the generative AI in the Walmart app is helping shoppers plan events, purchase items, and provide other “solution-oriented search experiences.” The article goes on to examine how these early successes might impact Google’s search business.
Demand for Generative AI courses surge
This article reports that demand for generative AI courses has tripled in the past year, driven by working professionals’ desire to “remain relevant.”
Coolest thing(s) I saw…
Last July, during the actors’ and writers’ strikes, Simulation Inc. posted a video on X of a South Park episode created entirely by their AI platform Showrunner. The response it got (more than 10 million views) prompted Forbes to call it “The sum of all Hollywood’s fears.” Simulation has just announced its availability for Alpha testing (click here to be taken to their sign-up form). Click here to see their Chairman’s SimCon 23 keynote presentation, which is also cool and inspiring.