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Leading CEOs across industries agree that AI is essential, not optional, predicting job shifts and industry reinvention.
A new light microscopy technique in brain research rivals electron microscopy in mapping neural connections.
Inspired by human cooperation driven by shared stories, research shows common narratives boost collaboration among AI agents while conflicting narratives hinder it.
Huawei released its first HarmonyOS laptop, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified at a Senate hearing on AI's future.
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🦾 AI daily pulse
CEOs across industries are saying it loud and clear: AI is not optional, it’s essential.
"AI is coming for your jobs... including mine." - Micha Kaufman, Fiverr
"You are the copilot of your own future." - Satya Nadella, Microsoft
"Everyone at Meta is expected to learn AI." - Mark Zuckerberg
"AI will reinvent every industry." - Sundar Pichai, Google [Entrepreneur]
—See my take belowA new light on neural connections. In collaboration with the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), we published in Nature the first-ever method for using light microscopy to comprehensively map all the neurons and their connections in a block of brain tissue. The key finding from this validation experiment is that this approach works as well as electron microscopy-based connectomics. [Google]
💻 Top research
“We humans don’t coordinate at scale because we’re rational, we coordinate because we believe the same stories. That’s how we turn chaos into coherence, tribes into civilizations, and transactions into trust. So would the same hold true for Agents?”—According to Yuval Noah Harari, large-scale human cooperation is driven by shared narratives that encode common beliefs and values. This study explores whether such narratives can similarly nudge LLM agents toward collaboration. We use a finitely repeated public goods game in which LLM agents choose either cooperative or egoistic spending strategies. We prime agents with stories highlighting teamwork to different degrees and test how this influences negotiation outcomes. Our experiments explore four questions:
- How do narratives influence negotiation behavior?
- What differs when agents share the same story versus different ones?
- What happens when the agent numbers grow?
- Are agents resilient against self-serving negotiators?
We find that story-based priming significantly affects negotiation strategies and success rates.
Common stories improve collaboration, benefiting each agent. By contrast, priming agents with different stories reverses this effect, and those agents primed toward self-interest prevail. We hypothesize that these results carry implications for multi-agent system design and AI alignment. [arXiv]
🔮 What else
Huawei unveils first laptop running self-developed HarmonyOS as Windows licence expires. [scmp]
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies at Senate hearing on artificial intelligence
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🌟 My take
The algorithmic colleague: Has AI outgrown the need for "team"?
The very notion of "team," that cornerstone of organizational structure, is undergoing a seismic shift. We stand at the precipice of a new era, where the lines between human contribution and artificial intelligence blur and the traditional concept of collaborative effort is fundamentally challenged.
Recent research illuminates a stark reality: AI can replicate, and in some cases surpass, the collective output of human teams. It's not merely a tool for efficiency; it's a paradigm-altering force that compels us to question the very essence of how we organize and execute work.
The implications are profound. AI's capacity to transcend functional silos, to provide balanced solutions regardless of professional background, and even to evoke positive emotional responses, demands a radical reassessment.
We must move beyond viewing AI as a supplementary asset and recognize its potential as a strategic partner capable of redefining our operational frameworks.
This transformation necessitates a shift in organizational culture and a move toward hybrid collaboration models in which human intelligence and AI capabilities are seamlessly integrated.
The speed at which AI research and innovation advance cannot be overstated.
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