Curators of Creativity, LLM's Pick Stocks Better than You, ACI Enables AI Automated Software Engineering
This Week in AI: Volume CI, Issue #30
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Generative AI fuels creative physical product design but is no magic wand
There’s no “magic wand” in generative AI, but its use in design can significantly reduce product development time by a whopping 70%. And while beneficial, generative AI is NOT a substitute for human expertise. In fact, human intervention is necessary to refine and validate AI output–a combination of AI and human expertise, rather than AI alone, is where the future lies.
The rise of generative AI in design reshapes the human role, demanding a blend of tech savvy and creative vision to fully leverage the potential of generative AI.
These reshaped roles are what the article terms “curators of creativity”.
Bridging the gap between AI and human creativity: Humans will need to learn how to effectively use generative AI tools. This includes:
Developing effective prompts: Providing the AI with detailed instructions and context to generate usable designs.
Refining AI outputs: Humans will need to use their skills to edit and refine AI-generated designs and make sure they are aesthetically pleasing, functional, and manufacturable.
Curating the best concepts: With AI potentially generating numerous options, designers will need to leverage their expertise and judgment to select the most promising concepts for development.
Embracing a broader skillset: Humans will need to become proficient in a range of skills, combining their traditional expertise with new AI competencies:
Storytelling and human-centered design skills: Effectively communicating design ideas and ensuring user needs are met.
Manufacturing know-how: Understanding the constraints and possibilities of manufacturing processes to ensure designs are feasible.
Digital fluency: Mastering various design software, including CAD, illustration, and rendering tools, along with generative AI platforms.
Material knowledge: A strong understanding of different materials and their properties to make informed design choices.
Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models
Turns out large language model (LLM) can effectively analyze financial statements and predict future earnings without being trained on financial data. What? Yeah, researchers found that GPT-4 outperformed human analysts and performed as well as a specialized neural network in predicting the direction of future earnings changes:
LLMs can analyze numerical data effectively: While LLMs are known for their text-processing capabilities, their aptitude for analyzing numerical data, specifically within the complex world of financial statements, is remarkable.
Chain-of-thought prompting is effective for financial analysis: Using chain-of-thought prompts to guide the LLM's reasoning process enables it to mimic the steps taken by human analysts, significantly enhancing its predictive accuracy.
Narrative insights are key to LLM performance: Narratives generated by the LLM during analysis provides valuable information about a company's financial health, further enhancing the ability to predict earnings.
The research shows LLMs like GPT-4 have the potential to revolutionize financial analysis by giving investors accessible, sophisticated tools for making informed investment decisions.
SWE-AGENT: AGENT-COMPUTER INTERFACES ENABLE AUTOMATED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
The design of your agent-computer interface (ACI) has a huge impact on your AI's performance. Researchers found that simply using existing human-computer interfaces, like the Linux shell, was not effective for the AI. Tailoring the interface to the specific needs and limitations of your AI led to significant improvements in its ability to solve software engineering tasks.
Simplicity and Efficiency: Researchers found that their AI performed best with simple, easy-to-understand commands and efficient actions that minimized the number of steps required to complete a task.
Informative Feedback: The AI benefited greatly from clear, concise feedback that provided meaningful information about the environment's state and the effects of its actions.
Error Mitigation: Just like humans, AI makes mistakes. Researchers found that incorporating guardrails, like code syntax checkers, helped AI identify and correct errors, preventing them from cascading into bigger problems down the road.
TOOLS
Remember when you had to either hire a product photographer or go outside and do it yourself? I wish I had this tool back in 2018 when I was running my e-commerce business. Jector is an AI tool for creating stunning product photos. Their node-based creation flows let you easily generate custom product backgrounds that make your product photos stand out.