Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 14Jun2024
Best business article(s) I read this week…
Managing the Creative Frontier of Generative AI: The Novelty-Usefulness Tradeoff
The authors discuss the benefits of creative AI and then examine AI-generated divergent and convergent thinking through the lenses of novelty and usefulness. Then, they propose a framework for developing creative AI. Why is creative AI important? According to the authors, “Creativity in AI can generate unforeseen solutions to complex problems, opening up new opportunities and pathways that might not have been visible or conceivable through human thought alone.”
Best technical article(s) I read this week…
Assembling Modular, Hierarchical Cognitive Map Learners with Hyperdimensional Computing
The authors present an approach for combining pre-trained neural networks to solve complex problems. Their approach could create more flexible, adaptable, and interpretable AI.
Other items I found interesting/valuable…
Digital twins are helping scientists run the world’s most complex experiments
The article describes how the NASA/Raytheon team in charge of the James Webb Space Telescope used a 3D digital twin to monitor the telescope’s final self-assembly, even though it was almost one million miles from Earth. The article also provides a brief history of the digital twin concept and how lessons learned with the telescope can be applied to other systems.
Amazon and Walmart Use GenAI to Cut Vendor Costs
This article gives several examples (that your company might follow) of how the two retail giants use machine learning, computer vision, and other forms of machine intelligence (the title is misleading) to reduce product defects, automate vendor negotiations, etc.
Artificial intelligence and the challenge for global governance
Chatham House has published nine essays focused on achieving “responsible AI.” A lot of thought-provoking ideas are presented.
Filling the Gap: How Cobots Are Revolutionizing Hospitality
This article describes why some in the hospitality industry are turning to collaborative robots (cobots) to deal with staff shortages. The article also presents some prospective advantages of using cobots to enhance the customer experience.
How Apple Intelligence will work
I assume you have heard Apple’s announcement of its AI platform, which is called Apple Intelligence. The company will use your private data to improve AI-enabled task execution, which has raised privacy concerns among some. This article outlines how the platform will work and how it will use your data.
Coolest thing I saw…
I have no image editing skills, and my firm has no graphics staff. I will outsource if it’s a big job, but simple things often take too long to outsource (since I’m usually on a tight deadline). This site does just one thing: it uses AI to remove the background from images quickly and easily. This is a task I need to complete often, as I purchase stock photography from sites such as Adobe Stock and Getty Images. This tool may not be as “cool” as a humanoid robot, but it works for me.
A company that caught my eye…
I usually feature a start-up, but this week, I’m featuring a publicly traded company that makes high-performance servers. Super Micro’s stock (NASDAQ: SMCI) has increased in value by 3,454% over the past five years, primarily due to the high demand for AI computing. The company has become so valuable that it has cracked the Fortune 500® (at the time of this writing, its market capitalization was US$50.48 Billion).