AI / User Collaboration Paradigms
- Cognesy Team
- Analysis
- September 12, 2024
OpenAI’s new language models, o1 and o1-mini, mark a significant shift in AI development. Let’s take a look how their shift to System-2 (slower but more accurate) reasoning impacts the AI-human collaboration.
While OpenAI’s new language models achieve impressive results in reasoning benchmarks, they’re notably slower than their predecessors. Completing complex, multistep tasks using those models could be taking minutes, not seconds as with previous generation of language models.
The Trade-Off: Speed vs. Quality
This trade-off between speed and quality is reshaping how we will interact with AI.
Two AI-human collaboration models emerge:
- For high-speed inference AI models
- Real-time interaction
- Immediate feedback
- Ideal for chatbots and coding assistants
- For low-speed, high-quality inference AI models
- Task delegation to AI
- Deferred, detailed feedback
- Multitasking becomes necessary
Impact on Workplace and Skills
Employers need to redesign workflows and expectations. The focus shifts from immediate problem-solving to strategic task management and interpretation of AI-generated insights.
Employees must develop new skills:
- Task prioritization and delegation to AI
- Managing multiple AI-driven processes simultaneously
- Interpreting and synthesizing AI outputs
- Balancing human intuition with AI-driven insights
HR and L&D will need new training programs to cultivate these skills and adapt to the evolving AI landscape.
UX and Application Design
The popular chat interface is becoming obsolete for these powerful, slower models.
New apps must focus on:
- Task and dependency management
- Progress tracking for long-running AI processes
- Effective notification systems
- Interfaces that minimize context-switching costs
As we transition from “think fast” to “think slow” AI models, our interaction paradigm will be evolving from direct collaboration to strategic orchestration. This trend, if continues, promises deeper insights but demands a reimagining of how we work alongside AI.
