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In today’s Brainyacts:

1. Future of work

2. Short demo of AI Agent buying you a burger

3. Apple AI and other AI model news

4. ILTA Evolve (a legal AI con) and other related content

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Lead Memo

🔮 💪 Microsoft’s Future of Work Report is Awesome

I am usually dubious about such reports but this one is full of research with citations. It is presented in a bulleted manner to make for easy consumption.

Click here to access it.

Report Overview:

This report provides insight into AI and work practices. In it you will find content related to:

• LLMs for Information Work: How do LLMs affect the speed and quality of common information work tasks? LLMs can boost productivity for information workers, but they also require careful evaluation and adaptation.

• LLMs for Critical Thinking: How can LLMs help us break down and build up complex tasks? LLMs can help us tackle complex tasks by provoking critical thinking, enabling microproductivity, and shifting the balance of skills.

• Human-AI Collaboration: How can we collaborate effectively with LLMs? Effective collaboration with LLMs depends on how we prompt, complement, rely on, and audit them.

• LLMs for Complex and Creative Tasks: How can LLMs tackle tasks that go beyond simple information retrieval or generation? LLMs can support complex and creative tasks by, for instance, enhancing metacognition.

• Domain-Specific Applications of LLMs: How are LLMs being used and affecting different domains of work? We focus specifically on software engineering, medicine, social science, and education.

• LLMs for Team Collaboration and Communication: How can LLMs help teams work and communicate better? LLMs can help teams improve interaction, coordination, and workflows by providing real-time, retrospective feedback and leveraging holistic frameworks.

• Knowledge Management and Organizational Changes: How is AI changing the nature and distribution of knowledge in organizations? LLMs might, for instance, finally eliminate knowledge silos in large companies.

• Implications for Future Work and Society: What implications will AI have for the future of work and society? We can shape AI’s impact by addressing adoption disparities, fostering innovation, leading like scientists, and remembering that the future of work is in our control.

Spotlight

🛡️🧑‍💻 AI Agents Are Here

NOT AN ADVERTISEMENT

I want to show you the following only to demonstrate how an AI Agent works and to illustrate how AI integration is proceeding. This is about AI seeping into the everyday tools and tasks rather than big enterprise solutions.

WARNING! For these to work and do multi-step tasks autonomously, we have to give them complete access to our data and tools. For instance, I was checking out a similar tool yesterday. In reviewing the Terms and Permissions I was asked to give the tool complete access to my Google Drive. This means the tool (and the company behind it) could view, edit, delete, and share any files in Google Drive. No thanks!

Now as these mature, no doubt we will have the capability to guard against this type of broad control but right now - not so much. Regardless, these agents are getting better and better.

This is MultiOn.ai. It is a Chrome extension. And it can automatically order you a burger or set a meeting simply by asking it to. Watch these two videos.

AI Model Notables

► OpenAI just quietly launched ‘GPT mentions’ to ChatGPT, allowing users to seamlessly integrate custom bots into a conversation by tagging them in an @-style mention.

► Anthropic confirms it suffered a data leak.

► Apple continues work on AI-powered Siri and Messages features, with help from ChatGPT.

► Italy puts OpenAI on notice for alleged EU privacy missteps.

► OpenAI is partnering with nonprofit Common Sense Media, known for rating media content for kids to collaborate on AI guidelines.

► Apple car reportedly delayed until 2028, self-driving level limited.

► Google has just unveiled a game-changing AI upgrade for Android. But it has a darker side. Google’s AI will read and analyze your private messages, going back forever.

► Meta releases ‘Code Llama 70B’, an open-source behemoth to rival private AI development.

News You Can Use:

➭ World's first automated AI restaurant opens in California.

➭ White House released AI Fact Sheet - noting all the US government has accomplished since Biden’s AI Executive Order.

➭ FDA accepts first AI algorithm to drug development tool pilot, with Deliberate AI’s anxiety and depression assessment.

➭ The Department of Defense's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has launched the first of two AI bias bounties, engaging the public to identify unknown risks in large language models through a crowdsourced exercise. The first (public) bounty will run January 29 – February 27, 2024.

➭ ILTA announces a new two-day conference in April, ILTA Evolve, focused on gen AI and cybersecurity.

➭ New Zealand is gearing up to develop AI regulations.

➭ China approves over 40 AI models for public use in past six months

Who is the author, Josh Kubicki?

Some of you know me. Others do not. Here is a short intro. I am a lawyer, entrepreneur, and teacher. I have transformed legal practices and built multi-million dollar businesses. Not a theorist, I am an applied researcher and former Chief Strategy Officer, recognized by Fast Company and Bloomberg Law for my unique work. Through this newsletter, I offer you pragmatic insights into leveraging AI to inform and improve your daily life in legal services.