AI Innovation, Humans + AI Explorers, evaluating strategic decisions, cooperative AI, and more

📖In this issue

• How to use Generative AI to evaluate strategic decisions

• Devin “first AI software engineer” impresses and worries

• AI chatbots are like humans except more cooperative and altruistic

• With Claude 3, Gemini, Mistral Large, and Pi Inflection 2.5 there are now 4 LLM's in the GPT-4 class

• Figure’s humanoid robots are now powered by OpenAI, generating impressive natural voice interaction and task completion

• Bryan Cassady on AI innovation, Humans + AI idea evaluation, increasing diversity with AI, and evidence-based innovation

• Expert and public insights into the impact of AI by 2040

🤸🏽In practice

How to use Generative AI to evaluate strategic decisions

Among the increasing body of research on Humans + AI thinking and creativity, an study of over 800 people in 40 countries uncovered useful insights into how using AI ideas can lead to greater diversity, the role of self-assessed creativity in how ideas are used, and collective idea generation quality.

👩🤖Humans + AI update

Devin “first AI software engineer” impresses

Cognition AI’s release of its “AI software engineer” Devin has the tech world abuzz with its very impressive autonomous completion of complex coding challenges. Many are worried about software jobs while others suggest “Devin offers a new paradigm that may be a glimpse of the way all software development — and computer work generally — may be done in the near-future: by AI workers overseen by human supervisors/users.”

Cognition emerges from stealth to launch AI software engineer Devin

AI chatbots are like humans except more cooperative and altruistic

“ChatGPT-4 exhibits behavioral and personality traits that are statistically indistinguishable from a random human… When deviating from mean and modal human behaviors, they are more cooperative and altruistic.”

A Turing test of whether AI chatbots are behaviorally similar to humans

A robot for feeding care patients

“a robot-assisted feeding system that can successfully feed care recipients with severe mobility limitations who require food placement inside their mouth.” Best Paper Nomination Humans-Robotics Interaction 2024

Feel the Bite: Robot-Assisted Inside-Mouth Bite Transfer using Robust Mouth Perception and Physical Interaction-Aware Control

🔥Hot news in AI

• The EU has approved the AI Act, the first comprehensive law on AI - BBC

• With Claude 3, Gemini, Mistral Large, and Pi Inflection 2.5 there are now 4 LLM's in the GPT-4 class - Simon Willison

• Google DeepMind creates SIMA, a general model for working in 3D virtual environments such as games - Google DeepMind

• OpenAI CTO says its Sora video generation tool will be available this year, possibly in the next months - The Byte

• Figure’s humanoid robots are now powered by OpenAI, generating impressive natural voice interaction and task completion - it’s an impressive demo, see below.

🎙️Latest podcast episode

What you will learn

• The impact of AI on innovation; enhancing efficiency and creativity

• Bridging knowledge in AI and innovation for systematic success

• Transforming idea generation; the synergy of AI and human creativity

• AI’s role in identifying and defining the right problems for innovation

• Leveraging AI for more effective team alignment and idea evaluation

• Exploring AI’s capability in improving communication and idea pitching

• The importance of diversity in teams, augmented by AI for better outcomes

💡Resources and insights

Expert and public insights into the impact of AI by 2040

The BurningGlass Institute report on Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Workforce, intended for CHROs, provides a very good overview of the likely impact of GenAI on work based on a solid methodology. One place that it digs a little deeper is in the skills that will increase and decrease in importance.