Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 10Nov2023
Best business article(s) I read this week…
Rogue superintelligence and merging with machines
This isn’t a business article per se, but it is very thought-provoking—for business leaders and others. It’s an interview with OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever. In it, he says his new priority is “to figure out how to stop an artificial superintelligence from going rogue.” He also talks about a future in which humans merge with technology. Interesting stuff (although not of immediate concern). The article begins with a brief history of advancements in deep learning that led to ChatGPT-4 that you may find instructive.
Best technical article(s) I read this week…
NLP and AR-based knowledge extraction for intelligent fault analysis
This article is behind a pricy paywall, but…
It describes how STMicroelectronics coupled expert knowledge extraction techniques with AI to enable a very time-consuming and labor-intensive process (fault analysis of semiconductor manufacturing) to be automated. The new process correctly predicted faults 97.8% of the time. I think it’s a great example of one of the many ways companies can improve their operating performance by applying AI/CI.
Other item(s) of note…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) “Builder Studio”
AWS has opened a “Builder Studio” in New York City’s 5th Avenue shopping district. It allows technology executives to see CI technologies such as digital twins and generative AI work in real-time. They can build simple prototypes while working with AWS engineers who are on-site.
xAI’s AI Chatbot, “Grok”
In case you missed it, X (formerly Twitter) announced its AI chatbot this week. According to the release, “A unique and fundamental advantage of Grok is that it has real-time knowledge of the world via the X platform” (i.e., it is updated in real-time with all the tweets generated on the platform).
Coolest thing I saw…
Humane is a start-up founded by former Apple executives with backing from people such as Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI. My first impression is that it is a crude version of a Star Trek communicator badge (for those old enough to know what that is). It’s an early entry into what will become a very large AI-powered wearables market. Here’s the company’s launch video: