“AI has been at the critical forefront of work everywhere,” Matt Alverson, a partner at IA Collaborative and adjunct instructor at the Mendoza College of Business, said. On Friday morning, Alverson lectured to students, faculty and staff at the Mendoza College of Business as part of the speaker series Ten Years Hence.
The lecture series invites speakers from diverse fields to explore emerging trends in business and society over the next decade. Alverson’s lecture focused on collaborative intelligence that is at the forefront of enterprise innovation.
According to Alverson, who has over 20 years of experience at IA Collaborative, said IA Collaborative works with company organizations that “are responsible for investing or developing new offerings that might be there five or even 10 years hence.”
Alverson argued much of IA Collaborative’s work revolves around “researching shifting values and emerging behaviors, running business prototypes of new models and ecosystems.” Alverson expanded, saying IA Collaborative figures out “how technologies and business models will be stronger in the future” and then “develop[s] novel and sometime early offerings” to give companies “either early mover advantage or move them into new spaces.”
Alverson described the current AI movement as “the largest, most exponential change” he has seen in 20 years as an innovator.
Alverson explained his passion and professional mission are centered around collaborative intelligence. He stated collaborative intelligence “is really the combination of human ambition, where we have our own insights, responsibilities and visions."
He introduced the concept of modern AI, describing it as “the integration of structured and unstructured data, massive processing power and multi-modal intelligence.” Alverson then explained this includes “humanized interaction layers that allow humans to interface with this multi-modal intelligence.”
To illustrate the power of these technologies, Alverson used the program NotebookLM to process past Ten Years Hence transcripts. He explained, “I took those transcripts, processed them through an older logic model on ChatGPT and it generated structured documents summarizing past Ten Years Hence talks, as well as the entire content of the existing website.”
Alverson showcased how AI can create personalized content, generating a podcast-style discussion about the series. He emphasized, “I do this demo because some people have used it, and they’re like, ‘I’m living in the future.‘ But for other people, it’s just hard to understand, like the speed and the power of this.”
Alverson provided several examples to illustrate the wide-ranging applications of modern AI. He mentioned, “JP Morgan now uses an AI assistant platform, so enables, they call it, 30,000 virtual analysts to work in harmony,” where “harmony is instantly on your desktop.” He also highlighted educational applications, saying, “Using this combination, you can have an entire student, 30-person class, all learning to read at the right level.”
