Humans + AI decision processes, signals of the future, AI for teachers, Ai that reflects, and more

September 09, 2024

“Many of the jobs created by the free market will grow out of a natural symbiosis between humans and machines. While AI handles the routine optimization tasks, human beings will bring the personal, creative, and compassionate touch.”
― Kai-Fu Lee

Humans + AI decision-making will be at the heart of our future. Better decisions will drive a better society, better allocation of capital, better organizations, and better lives. But that’s not easy to get to. Humans and AI each have distinct and complementary capabilities, and we are just beginning to map out some of ways we can best combine them.

One of the resources in this newsletter comes from a discussion in our Humans + AI Explorers Community. You can join for free if you’d like to engage directly in those conversations and see the thinking of our impressive members.

Ross

 

📖In this issue

  • Mapping Humans + AI decision-making processes

  • Replit Agent creates and deploys apps from text prompts

  • UNESCO AI competence framework for teachers

  • AI with zero errors on scientific literature reviews

  • Reflection-70B using “Reflection tuning” claims to be now the top open source model

  • Sylvia Gallusser on signals of the future, vivid scenarios, awareness practices, and envisioning meditations

  • Organizational Decision-Making Structures in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

🤸 Framework

Mapping Humans + AI decision-making processes

In the Humans + AI Explorers Community top product leader Rawn Shah has mapped out in more detail each of the 10 levels from my “Levels of AI Delegation” from my Levels of AI delegation in decision-making framework.

There was a robust and interesting conversation in the community which includes a link to the full visual diagram of all 10 levels.

 

👩🤖Humans + AI update

Replit Agent creates and deploys apps from text prompts

This is pretty wild. Coding platform Replit has released (in Beta) Replit Agent, which allows you to create a full-blown deployable application including all code, using a simple text prompt. As I tried it out, it is clearly not quite a finished product, but it is still staggeringly good. This changes the game.

AI with zero errors on scientific literature reviews

Reliant claims that while GPT-4o can do a literature review of several thousand journal articles, it does so with 11% errors, whereas their product does so with zero errors.

UNESCO AI competence framework for teachers

A UNESCO report provides a detailed and solid competence framework for teachers at all levels.

New book on How Humans + Machines Will Co-Create a Better Future

“Tim Houlne’s The Intelligent Workforce: How Humans + Machines Will Co-Create a Better Future explores the transformative relationship between human creativity and machine intelligence, prescribing actions for navigating the technologies reshaping modern workplaces and industries. As AI and automation advance, Houlne explores how new job opportunities arise from this dynamic collaboration.”

Thriving In The Era Of AI + Humans

🔥Hot news in AI

  • HyperWrite launches Reflection-70B using “Reflection tuning”, claiming to be now the top open source model, with its Reflection-405B out next week beating the top commercial models - VentureBeat 

  • OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sustekever’s new startup Safe Superintelligence raises $1 billion - Reuters

  • Salesforce is pivoting with the launch of AgentForce of autonomous AI agents - Benzinga

  • Nvidia’s earnings report showed earnigns up 122% but it wasn’t enough, its shares are down 20% - CNBC

🎙️This week’s podcast episode

Sylvia Gallusser on signals of the future, vivid scenarios, awareness practices, and envisioning meditations  

What you will learn

  • Exploring multidisciplinary approaches to future thinking

  • Using foresight meditation to visualize possible scenarios

  • The power of signals in understanding future trends

  • Amplifying cognition through creativity and fiction

  • The importance of history and sociology in futurism

  • Transforming future visions into actionable strategies

  • Addressing truth and deepfakes in the digital age

 

💡Resources and insights

Organizational Decision-Making Structures in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

A very interesting paper in California Management Review on Organizational Decision-Making Structures in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. provides an analysis of AI decision delegation related to the framework shared earlier in the newsletter.

The paper identifies 3 types of AI decision delegation, assessed across 6 characteristics:

🤖 Full Human to AI Delegation

🔄 Hybrid Sequential Decision-Making Structures

🧠 Aggregated Human–AI Decision-Making Structures

The paper is from 2019 but still very relevant.

Thanks for reading!

Ross Dawson and team