GenAI in scientific discovery, collective intelligence research, Terence Tao on AI in maths, and more

📖In this issue

• Generative AI to Accelerate Scientific Discovery

• Mathematicians are and will be augmented by AI

• Comedians are safe from AI, for now

• Latest in AI: Claude Sonnet 3.5 beats GPT-4o, Ilya Sutskever founds Safe Superintelligence, Nvidia the most valuable company in the world…

• Anita Williams Woolley on factors in collective intelligence, AI to nudge collaboration, AI caring for elderly, and AI to strengthen human capability

• Generative AI and competitive advantage

🤸 Frameworks

Generative AI to Accelerate Scientific Discovery

The history of humanity has been one of accelerating scientific and technological progress. Now, by amplifying the cognition and capabilities of scientists with AI, we can dramatically step up the pace of discovery.

This framework is a high-level distillation of a few of the cognitive tools and techniques for GenAI to assist scientists.

I am already working on version 2 of this, please let me know any feedback or input to improve it!

👩🤖Humans + AI update

Mathematicians are and will be augmented by AI

Terence Tao, winner of the Fields medal (equivalent of Nobel Prize for maths), shares in Scientific American how AI and computation are opening up new possibilities for cooperation and completely new ways of working.

AI Will Become Mathematicians’ ‘Co-Pilot’

Comedians are safe from AI, for now

Comedians find that “the LLMs did not succeed as a creativity support tool, by producing bland and biased comedy tropes, akin to ``cruise ship comedy material from the 1950s, but a bit less racist''.”

A Robot Walks into a Bar: Can Language Models Serve as Creativity Support Tools for Comedy? 

Asana launches AI project management “teammates”

“The work management platform’s latest AI dives into the nitty-gritty of getting stuff done—sometimes with ‘superhuman’ results, says CEO Dustin Moskovitz..“

Asana says its new AI teammates are ready to manage your projects

Banking jobs will be disrupted and augmented, says Citi

A report from Citi says that 54% of banking jobs - more than any other industry - have the potential to be automated. It also says 12% can be “augmented”. However new jobs for working with AI will be created.

AI to impact more than half of banking jobs - Citi

🔥Hot news in AI

• Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 3.5 for free - it is rated as faster and in most cases better than GPT-4o, with the more powerful Claude Opus 3.5 coming soon, suggesting model progress isn’t slowing - The Verge

• Ilya Sutskever, until recently Chief Scientist at Open AI, has launched his new venture Safe Superintelligence, which aims to achieve what the name says - The Register

• Nvidia is now the most valuable company in the world with a $3.3 trillion valuation, up over 9x since January 2023 - CNBC 

• Open source code model DeepSeek-Coder-V2 first to beat GPT-4 Turbo in coding and mathematics benchmarks - VentureBeat

🎙️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 the concept of collective intelligence

• The difference between individual and collective intelligence

• How collective memory, attention, and reasoning work

• The impact of gender on collective intelligence

• The role of AI in facilitating human collaboration

• Integrating AI as a teammate in group settings

• Future possibilities for human-AI collaboration in problem-solving

💡Resources and insights

Generative AI and competitive advantage

Leading platform strategy thinker Sangeet Paul Chaudhary, who was recently on Amplifying Cognition on the future of work, digs into the nature of competitive advantage in a GenAI world.

“The “most advanced generative AI” won’t matter.

What will matter, though, is:

(1) the state of your competitive ecosystem,

(2) the factors that create competitive advantage within it”