Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 20Oct2023
Best business article(s) I read this week…
Getting AI Implementation Right: Insights from a Global Survey
This California Management Review article presents the findings of a global survey of more than 2,500 business executives with experience in AI regarding challenges faced when implementing AI initiatives. The study covers technological, organizational, and cultural factors.
What Fast-Moving Companies Do Differently
This HBR Digital article isn’t about CI; it’s about how organizations can gain insights and take action more quickly. As innovation rates in CI and related technologies continue to accelerate, business executives must increase their companies’ operational tempo. This article provides four insights about how companies do this successfully.
Best technical article(s) I read this week…
Learning the Beauty in Songs: Neural Singing Voice Beautifier
The authors describe how they use specialized Generative AI to improve the singing of amateur singers. It’s interesting primarily for its novelty. It’s a great example of how this technology will have much broader impacts than anyone can anticipate.
Other item(s) of note…
Air Street Capital’s very detailed report on the AI industry (162 slides).
Collaborative AI improves urban planning
Researchers in China demonstrated how to apply AI to generate better urban designs (based on three metrics: access to services, access to green spaces, and traffic levels) while reducing production time from hours to seconds. This is interesting because it’s another example of how CI can dramatically improve quality and productivity.
Coolest thing I saw…
The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry
This isn’t cool. It’s very unusual. A colleague alerted me to it. I am highlighting it primarily because of the ethical issues it raises. As I tell clients and others, just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.