Collaborative Intelligence Week in Review - 08Mar2024
Best business article(s) I read this week…
Your Organization Isn’t Designed to Work with GenAI
The article discusses the need for organizations to redesign their processes to work effectively with Generative AI. The authors recommend adopting a "Designing for Dialogue" approach, where the focus is on creating a symbiotic relationship between humans and AI.
The article reinforces a point I make myself: companies that successfully adapt their organizational design and workflows to leverage collaborative intelligence capabilities can achieve significant gains in efficiency, innovation, and competitive advantage.
Best technical article(s) I read this week…
AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead, Long Live AI Prompt Engineering
As you might have predicted, new research shows that AI-generated prompts outperform human-engineered prompts on most generative AI tasks. The authors concede that the job of prompt engineer won’t be going away any time soon due to the rapidly changing AI landscape.
As I’ve written, the rapid advances in machine intelligence require companies to completely re-think how work should be done in their organizations, assigning tasks to humans or machines based on the key drivers of task performance. Through this lens, it is easy to see that AI could outperform humans on the task of generating a prompt. Therefore, AI should be assigned this task, and humans should be assigned the task of validating and improving the outputs through refinements.
Other item(s) of note…
Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI
This paper provides the results of a survey of 2,778 researchers who have published articles on AI. The key survey questions asked for predictions on the pace of AI progress and the future impacts of advanced AI.
This article from The Atlantic describes how the power and processing demands of generative AI are driving the companies that produce LLMs to design their own chips and invest in power generation capabilities.
The Key to Natural-Sounding AI
This article describes the techniques used to create natural-sounding AI in text-to-speech applications.
Coolest thing(s) I saw…
The company calls its service “Generative Multimedia at Story Scale.” As the intro video on the site demonstrates, it turns text into such things as storyboards, animations, and graphic novels. It is currently accessible by waitlist only, but their Substack site provides examples of what is possible.
Would you live in a 3D-printed house?
3D home printing is tangential to other collaborative intelligence technologies, but it uses machine intelligence in the design process.