Gianni Giacomelli on superminds, Chain-of-Thought for AI-enhanced thinking, death of IP and more...

My full focus these days is how generative AI can augment human intelligence. That is expressed across all my ventures, but right now is funneled into my Maven cohort course AI-Enhanced Thinking & Decision-Making.

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• Chain-of-Thought applied to AI-enhanced thinking

• Arizona State University implements ChatGPT across the board

• Gianni Giacomellis on augmented collective intelligence, semantic spaces, network incentives, and designing superminds

• Is AI the death of IP?

Applying AI algorithms to AI-enhanced thinking

The Chain-of-Thought approach to sequential ‘thinking’, and its derivatives such as Tree-of-Thought have dramatically accelerated LLM performance at complex tasks.

These techniques can also be very usefully applied to augmenting human intelligence with AI.

Arizona State University partners with OpenAI

“Arizona State University will use ChatGPT Enterprise for coursework, tutoring, research.. to build a personalized AI tutor for students, allow students to create AI avatars for study help and broaden the university’s prompt engineering course.” ASU has been highly innovative in on-campus and remote learning, this is a great pilot study.

OpenAI announces first partnership with a university

PR professionals are using GenAI… but not disclosing it

An interesting research study on PR professionals’ use of GenAI shows that 64% are using it in their workflows, up from 28% a year ago. Half don’t have an AI policy, 21% offer training in how to use it. 35% think that AI use should always be disclosed to clients, but only 19% do.

Japan's 'omotenashi' culture can offer an edge in the AI age

Microsoft provides AI Reading Coach for free

There is massive potential for AI to help in education, most of all to those who have least access to it. Microsoft has made its Reading Coach personalized reading education app free.

Microsoft makes its AI-powered reading tutor free

Podcast main points

• Augmenting collective intelligence by synergizing human and AI capabilities is essential for enhancing both organizational and individual thinking.

• Designing 'superminds' involves large groups of humans and machines working together to amplify collective cognition.

• AI plays a crucial role in breaking down complex concepts into semantic spaces, aiding in a deeper understanding and exploration of subjects.

• Incentives within networks can foster collaboration, highlighting the significance of organizational design in this context.

• Individuals can augment their cognitive abilities using AI by leveraging diverse perspectives and tools.

• AI assists in information foraging by summarizing vast amounts of data to pinpoint valuable insights.

• The evolution of collaboration and communication technologies impacts collective intelligence in organizations.

• The future potential of AI lies in enhancing both organizational structures and individual cognitive processes.

The IP system was already broken, then came Gen AI

An article in The Atlantic looks at how Generative AI is upending the copyright system, which has long been dysfunctional at best. This a complex issue that is central to our economy, in a world where writing, research, and entertainment hold central roles. So what comes next?

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