IA vs AI

Researchers and technologists looking to apply computational power as tools often approach the problem from one of two distinct perspectives: augmenting the abilities of a human operator (“intelligence augmentation”), or developing methods which automate human operations (“artificial intelligence”). Some tasks are particularly well suited to the latter (e.g. ML is good at making tedious tasks “free”); at least for now, more creative tasks are typically better addressed by “IA”-inspired techniques.

Examples of IA

A 2023 MS presentation framed this as “Copilot vs autopilot”—that’s nice.

References

Carter, S., & Nielsen, M. A. (2017). Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence. Distill. https://doi.org/10.23915/distill.00009

Heer, J. (2019). Agency plus automation: Designing artificial intelligence into interactive systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(6), 1844–1850

Last updated 2023-07-13.