Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 23Feb2024

Best business article(s) I read this week…

• Designing the Intelligent Organization: Six Principles for Human-AI Collaboration

  This is an open-access article from California Management Review. As the title suggests, the authors present six principles to improve collaboration between humans and AI.

• Adopting AI at Speed and Scale: The Fourth Industrial Revolution

  The McKinsey & Company authors argue that the rise of AI has created an inflection point, and manufacturers must decide quickly which of three strategic postures to adopt.

Best technical article(s) I read this week…

• Solving Data-Centric Tasks Using LLMs

  The paper presents findings on how alternative prompting techniques affect the quality of LLM outputs on tasks that are data-centric.

Other item(s) of note…

• GPT-4 developer tool can hack websites without human help

  This article highlights one of the downsides of any new technology—it can be used with good or bad intent—presenting research from the University of Illinois on how to use ChatGPT to hack websites (read the original paper here).

• What Apple’s New Vision Pro Headset Might Do to Our Brain

  Virtual and augmented reality are two important collaborative intelligence technologies. This Scientific American article considers the effects of wearing a Virtual Reality device all day.

• A not-so-weak signal: new micro LEDs poised to take Augmented Reality by storm

  In a related story, MIT Technology Review describes Apple VisionPro’s underlying technology and what else it might make possible.

Coolest thing I saw…

• The Quest for a New DNA-Based Information Storage Device

  As I wrote in a previous article, the amount of available data is growing exponentially, and its rate of growth is also growing exponentially. As this article states, “the rate of information production is increasing faster than the storage density of tape, which will only be able to keep up with the deluge of data for a few more years.” One solution being explored is storing it in DNA. I’m not sure this is “cool,” but it is fascinating.

• Voronoi App for Data Visualization

  This is a new app from Visual Capitalist, a company that specializes in data visualization and data-driven storytelling. Their 2020 post on the combination of AI and the Internet of Things (IoT) was quite insightful. It’s sort of a social site, where others can share their creations. I was impressed by a lot of what I saw.