AI-assisted creative agencies, AI to identify assumptions, intelligence and the Exploitation-Exploration dilemma, and more!

📖In this issue

• Tools for identifying assumptions and reframing questions

• AI to find and assist the right connections at an event

• $1 million in prizes for reasoning in new paths to AGI

• Latest in AI: Apple Intelligence, new text-to-video tools, Elon Musk and privacy…

• Jeremy Somers on building an AI-assisted creative agency, 80:20 in Humans + AI, AI-amplified storytelling, and the future of agencies

• The Exploitation-Exploration dilemma’s fundamental role in intelligence and our lives

🤸 AI-augmented thinking in practice

Tools for identifying assumptions and reframing questions

One of the most useful applications of AI-augmented thinking is to check and refine the frame for our thinking, including surfacing implicit assumptions in our thinking that others might not see or tell us about.

On our Humans + AI Explorers Community member Simon Buckminster-Shum, Professor at the UTS Connected Intelligence Centre, shared Qreframer, a GPT he has created to reflect assumptions underlying questions.

Go to the comments on the post to find additional extensive prompts for assumption checking and first principles thinking, including problem decomposition and challenging assumptions.

👩🤖Humans + AI update

AI to improve court strategy and processes

“Brazil's government is hiring OpenAI to expedite the screening and analysis of thousands of lawsuits using artificial intelligence (AI), trying to avoid costly court losses that have weighed on the federal budget.”

Brazil hires OpenAI to cut costs of court battles

AI to find and assist the right connections at an event

AI engineer Swizec Teller has created a very promising AI app that uses vector similarity search, not only to identify who you should speak to, but also to offer talking points to surface your common interests. 

Using AI to spark connections at a conference

$1 million in prizes for new paths to AGI

here is $1m up for grabs for achieving human-level performance at the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC), which is designed to assess the efficiency of skill-acquisition on unknown tasks.

ARC Prize

🔥Hot news in AI

• Apple belatedly launches “Apple Intelligence” integrated into its suite of products, stock price goes up $200 billion - Reuters

• Elon Musk suggests Apple’s integration with OpenAI tools are a privacy nightmare but few agree - Quartz

• Perplexity is under fire for overusing and under-attributing media sources, but is trying to strike deals with media companies - Semafor

• The text-to-video wars are stepping up with the latest release Dream Machine from Luma openly available

🎙️Last week’s podcast episode

Not an interview this time, but running through and discussing my mini-report on future job prosperity, making the case for a positive future of work.

What you will learn

• Exploring Jeremy’s journey from analog to digital in the creative industry

• The pivotal role of generative AI in transforming creative processes

• How notcontent.AI merges AI tools with human creativity for enhanced productivity

• Addressing common misconceptions about AI replacing creative jobs

• Strategies for integrating AI into traditional creative agency workflows

• The future of creative agencies in an AI-driven world

• Insights on maintaining human creativity at the core of AI-assisted outputs

💡Resources and insights

The Exploitation-Exploration dilemma’s fundamental role in intelligence and our lives

The Exploitation-Exploration dilemma is deeply relevant, not only to business strategy, but to many aspects of our lives.

It is also a fundamental underpinning of intelligence, human and artificial.

The article explores five facets of exploit-explore in life and business, five aspects of exploit-explore in AI, and the implications for our decisions in an accelerating world.