Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 17May2024
Best business article(s) I read this week…
Want to make the most of generative AI? Use your imagination
This short piece captures Microsoft chief scientist Jaime Teevan’s thoughts on how AI will change how we work.You may be wondering what your data assets are worth. If so, you should read this Substack article by Abraham Thomas, the co-founder and Chief Data Officer at Quandl, a data marketplace acquired by NASDAQ in 2020. The article focuses on how to price data and discusses its multi-dimensional value.
Best technical article(s) I read this week…
Automating Creativity
This is a very ambitious paper. The authors discuss a strategy for moving generative AI from being generative (e.g., responding to queries based on its training data) to being creative. They present a reinforcement learning approach based on a prompt-response-reward engineering framework.
News items I found interesting…
Robot gives commencement speech at a New York university
This is an “interesting” development. D'Youville University in Buffalo, New York, invited “Sophia,” an AI-enhanced robot, to deliver their commencement address. The decision was not without controversy.
Sony and Siemens announce the NX Immersive Designer
The companies have joined forces to create an extended reality headset that can be used to create and test new products via a digital twin.
CrowdStrike Collaborates with NVIDIA to Redefine Cybersecurity for the Generative AI Era
This collaboration merges CrowdStrike’s Falcon XDR platform with NVIDIA's advanced computing and AI capabilities, including the NIM framework. Together, they aim to enhance threat detection, response, and prevention by leveraging petabyte-scale security data and AI-powered analytics.
Big Tech sees neurotechnology as its next AI frontier
This is an interesting article from Yahoo! Finance detailing why and how big tech firms are investing in neurotechnology that can “read your mind” without an invasive procedure.
Coolest thing I saw…
There was a lot of news regarding this release, so you may already know about it. OpenAI released GPT-4o (that’s a lowercase “o” that stands for “omni”), a multimodal model that can understand text, images, and audio. You should visit the link to see the demo videos. They will give you multiple examples of the model’s power.
A company that caught my eye…
This London-based company builds foundation models based on embodied AI to power autonomous vehicles. It recently completed a $1.05B Series C round led by Softbank.