AI, the brain, and the crowd, with CMU prof Niki Kittur

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🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we explore the frontier of crowd-augmented cognition, the concept of humans working together with the help of technology, including new ways that artificial intelligence is changing the field.

Our guest is Aniket (Niki) Kittur, a professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where his research focuses on new methods of augmenting human intellect using crowds and computation.

We also talk about a related project that Kittur and his colleagues developed called Skeema, a browser tab manager that helped users organize their work, projects, and ultimately their brains in the process.

With GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. Edited by Curt Milton.

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0:00.0	One of the things that it seems to correlate with relatively well is something that's known as the
0:07.0	satisficer maximizer-Maximizer scale. You know, a maximizer is sort of what I described myself as,
0:12.3	and it sounds like you are.
0:13.7	We really care about optimizing some particular things that are important to us.
0:18.4	It's too bad as you were starting to explain that I was really hoping you were going to say that
0:21.7	it correlates highly with
0:23.0	charm and wealth but maybe that could be a future study yes yes let's just
0:30.2	use the two of us as a sample size of two for your next study.
0:34.0	There we go.
0:35.0	I'm fine with that.
0:38.0	Welcome to GeekWire. I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. We are coming to you from
0:45.7	Seattle where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in business,
0:49.5	technology and innovation. What happens here matters everywhere and every week on this show we talk about some of and
0:53.0	every week on this show we talk about some of the most interesting stories and trends in the news.
0:58.0	We do focus on Seattle, but every once in a while it's fun to look elsewhere
1:02.0	and we consider Pittsburgh a sister city of sorts to Seattle,
1:07.3	especially because the GeekWire team has spent extended amounts of time there, including
1:11.8	our HQ2 project back in 2018 which is an epic story
1:15.2	that I'll share with you another time and I have joining me on the show today a
1:19.8	professor from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
1:23.0	Nicki Katur, he is in the Human Computer Interaction Institute at CMU,
1:28.0	where he focuses on crowd augmented cognition, including the specialty of crowds and computation.
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