The world needs more breakthroughs — climate, energy, healthcare, education, and policymaking, just to name a few — and faster. Breakthroughs often come from the combination of ideas from very diverse origins. Humans, because of their capabilities, incentives, and the objective complexity of the current state-of-the-art, struggle with integrating that…

Large Language Model (LLM) AI tools are one of the most amazing achievements of human ingenuity. And yet, in order to change how organizations and economies work, they will need to percolate deeply into the fabric of work. …

This is a short Sci-Fi piece written with more than some help from several Generative AI models. Storytelling is part of humans’ toolkit for innovation, as it helps intuit new possibilities and build on each others’ ideas. It is a collective intelligence technique, and AI does augment it. This story…

What are AI large language models (LLMs) good at, really? Let’s ask the question in a different way: What can we do without symbolic reasoning, which is something that humans use more extensively, and that LLMs don’t use as much? …

What if we could use millions of machines to curate, consolidate, pre-process input and ideas, and inject them back into close loops with their human-mind counterpart — for perhaps thousands of humans? Today, we don’t do that particularly well — generative AI and even search engines are still in many…

Here’s the sixth newsletter (previous ones here) that curates news and stories through the lens of technologically augmented collective intelligence. Of course, January has been another big month for ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs) are now visible to everyone. …

As debates swirl around Open AI and its potential impact on Microsoft’s strategy, it’s important to take a step back. Large language models (LLMs) can already, and certainly could, do many things that can benefit Microsoft. But innovation’s strategy sometimes falls into a subtle trap: using the wrong market segmentation…

Source: Our World in Data In most developed economies, as well as now in China, the population is aging at a rapid pace. …

Happy new year! Here’s the fifth newsletter that curates news and stories through the lens of technologically augmented collective intelligence (from the CollectiveIntelligence.media website). A couple of highlights from this month’s crop: from the “pandemicene” to human physics, from fake news about fake news to Twitter’s spirit, from decentralization to…