Category Archives: Human-AI Collaboration

It Takes a Village to Raise a Robot

Posted on June 19, 2024 by mjs

A widespread public concern is that AIs are not trustworthy because they lack human values. Current practices for governing AI behavior aim to contain and guide AI behavior using software guardrails. In contrast, humans have nuanced, context dependent, and deep … Continue reading →

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Roots and Requirements for Collaborative AIs

Posted on April 22, 2024 by mjs

The vision of AIs as human-like collaborators is a staple of mythology and science fiction, where artificial agents with special talents assist human partners and teams. In this vision, sophisticated AIs understand nuances of collaboration and human communication. The AI … Continue reading →

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Creating the Conditions for Invention and Innovation — Revisited

Posted on March 19, 2021 by mjs

When I was asked to lead the Intelligent Systems and Technology Lab at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), I wanted the lab to succeed wonderfully in its research mission. I was a fairly prolific inventor and had taken multiple … Continue reading →

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A Generation Ready for Human-Computer Teams

Posted on April 8, 2016 by mjs

Human-computer teams combine best of human and computer cognition. The combination can lead to extremely high performance. But are human-computer teams the future of work? For some of us, the idea of having computers on the team is outside of … Continue reading →

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