Louis Rosenberg on collective intelligence, AI Co-Thinkers, woke and contentious AI, and more

March 02, 2024

"The human spirit must prevail over technology." - Albert Einstein

The “Humans + AI” framing suggests that AI should be viewed as a potentially valuable complements to people. It is useful to treat them as peers that can help us improve our thinking. See below for a new report that examines the role of sophisticated domain-specific AI “Co-Thinkers” in assisting business strategy.

Collective intelligence has to be one of the most important areas of research, helping us transcend problems and build new possibilities. Louis Rosenberg shares promising directions for aggregating human insight that are already being put into practice.

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📖In this issue

  • Assess AI potential for organizational tasks

  • Report on AI Management Co-Thinking

  • Abstraction and creativity in the age of AI

  • Google goes woke and Meta plans to be contentious

  • Louis Rosenberg on conversational swarm intelligence, group solution convergence, and future advances in collective intelligence

  • Why you shouldn’t predict when AI will exceed human intelligence

 

 

🤸🏽In practice

Assess AI potential for organizational tasks

Recent Amplifying Cognition podcast guest Gianni Giacomelli has released a GPT Apta (AI Pertinence Task Analyzer) that breaks down organizational processes into individual tasks, and for each one assesses the potential for Predictive and Generative AI augmentaton.

Gianni notes “This is just a simple prototype… imagine what could be done with more concerted work.” This relates strongly to my work on “Humans + AI workflow” which identifies specific tasks, sequencing, and relative human and AI roles. Indeed, there’s a lot of potential in taking these directions further.

 

👩🤖Humans + AI update

ManagementGPT report on AI Co-Thinking

CapGemini and Thinkers50 have released a report “Management GPT” on the results of applying “AI Co-Thinkers” to responsible leaderships, platform business models, and multi-stakeholder co-creation.

Adobe’s Scott Belsky on abstraction and creativity in the age of AI

Adobe’s Chief Strategy Officer Scott Belsky posits that as AI abstracts and summarizes ideas away from their source, “abstraction hacking” will be used to bias LLMs’ outputs. A fundamental tension of AI is that it both democratizes and advances creativity, leading to taste as a critical faculty.

 

🔥Hot news in AI

  • Google’s Gemini causes massive controversy over its “woke” responses, CEO calls it “completely unacceptable” - The Verge 

  • Meta plans to launch open source model Llama 3 in July with less censorship and caution - Reuters

  • Humanoid robotics company Figure raises $675 million from Microsoft, OpenAI, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel Capital - TechCrunch

  • Tim Cook says Apple will “break new ground” in AI this year - 9to5Mac

  • Ideogram has raised $80 million and released 1.0 of its image generator which is capable of accurate text rendering (example below) - Ideogram 

 

🎙️Latest podcast episode

What you will learn

  • Exploring collective intelligence lessons from nature

  • Understanding real-time adaptation in natural systems and individual convictions

  • Deciphering conviction signals from bee waggle dances

  • Unveiling conviction dynamics in collective decision-making

  • Exploring the limits of group conversations

  • Enhancing group conversations with AI insights

  • Envisioning the future of large-scale group conversations

 

💡Resources and insights

What’s wrong with predicting when AI will exceed human intelligence

“I get very annoyed when I see discussion or predictions of “when AI will reach human-level intelligence”. That implies that intelligence is just one thing that you can measure linearly. Humans do not have even just 7 intelligences, as proposed by Howard Gardner. There are more dimensions to intelligence than we can imagine.”