Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 28Jun2024
Best business article(s) I read this week…
AI Survey: Four Themes Emerging
This is a summary of findings from a new survey conducted by Bain & Company. I think the most interesting findings resulted from the question, “Why has the use of generative AI not met your company’s expectations?”
Death, Taxes, and AI: How Generative AI Will Change Accounting
This piece by two Andreessen Horowitz partners examines how generative AI will impact the accounting vertical using the Jobs to be Done framework. It also includes a generative AI market map for accounting.
This brief by Pitchbook (it’s free to access but requires sharing your contact information) compares and contrasts companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks and examines secondary investment opportunities.
Best technical article(s) I read this week…
How to build an AI data center
This article discusses the challenges faced in building AI data centers to support model building, such as high power consumption and heat management, and their implications for data center design, construction, and location.
What Teaches Robots to Walk, Teaches Them to Trade Too
The paper discusses how reinforcement learning techniques can be applied to trading algorithms to enable them to adapt to regime shifts in financial markets and improve predictive models.
Other items I found interesting/valuable…
AI-powered digital twins are about to change the face of industrial ecosystems
This report from the World Economic Forum forecasts that, by the end of this decade, the use of AI-powered digital twins to reduce energy consumption could result in $2 Trillion in annual savings.
Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024
This article was also published by the World Economic Forum. Its list of 10 emerging technologies includes several applications of AI.
The Future of AI: Unleashing the Power of Quantum Machine Learning
This article briefly introduces the emerging field of Quantum Machine Learning (QML), which should improve the power of existing AI models.
OpenAI is using ChatGPT to improve the performance of ChatGPT by enhancing humans’ ability to provide helpful feedback to the model.
Coolest thing I saw…
I had breakfast this week at Layered in McKinney, TX. I ordered from a human, but this delivery robot brought out the food…
It can carry 6-10 orders, depending on the size. It can also run ads and do other things. This is a glimpse of the near-term future.
A company that caught my eye…
While I read at least 20 articles on early and late-stage startups, none of them captured my imagination. It’s probably a signal that we are in an AI investment bubble.