Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 03May2024
Best business article(s) I read this week…
The Emergence of Dominant Designs in Artificial Intelligence
This California Management Review article (paywall) explores how dominant designs are forming in the field of AI, influenced by business model innovation as much as by technological advancements. It also discusses the intense competition among companies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
Design Thinking for Organizational Innovation at PepsiCo
This is also a California Management Review article (I was catching up on my reading this week). It presents nine design thinking principles that were used at PepsiCo to “trigger and sustain organizational innovation.” The introduction of AI into workflows will impact most aspects of an organization. Maximizing the value derived from these technologies will require companies to successfully innovate their organizational models. Business leaders may find useful insights in this article.
Five Myths About Generative AI That Leaders Should Know
Regular readers will recognize most of the advice in this article from The Wharton School, but it’s always worth reinforcing these points.
Best technical article(s) I read this week…
Embodied Neuromorphic Artificial Intelligence for Robotics
Neuromorphic computing is a nascent field focused on creating chip designs based on the human brain. This article explores how this technology could provide robots with the embedded intelligence required to make them more fit for a much wider variety of tasks.
News items I found interesting…
The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise
The most recent survey in a quarterly series by Deloitte examines current uses of generative AI in business.
The health risks of generative AI-based wellness apps
If you conduct an internet search for “Generative AI and Healthcare,” you’ll find thousands of articles discussing how the technology will transform public health. One of the early applications is chat models for mental health and wellness. The authors of this article, which appears in Nature Medicine (behind a paywall), discuss the risks of these apps and the implications for users, developers, and regulators.
NIST launches a new platform to assess generative AI
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced a new evaluation program for generative AI. The program’s objectives are
Evolving benchmark dataset creation,
Facilitating the development of content authenticity detection technologies for different modalities (text, audio, image, video, code),
Conducting a comparative analysis using relevant metrics, and
Promoting the development of technologies for identifying the source of fake or misleading information.
Coolest thing I saw…
The inaugural conference, held this week in Abu Dhabi, produced several exciting announcements, including the first operational “airport” for vertical take-off and landing aircraft and advancements in flying cars, autonomous vehicles, and autonomous seacraft.
A company that caught my eye…
The company combines a proprietary 3D camera with image processing AI and other technologies to create a platform for creating digital twins. I am a huge fan of combining AI with other technologies to create compound systems that solve problems beyond the capabilities of a large language model (LLM). The company recently closed a new round of financing led by BootstrapLabs.