Human-machine teams outperform standalone humans or supercomputers
Brandon Deer · 20VC: Inside UiPath, The World's Fastest Growing Startup, How The Best Leaders Approach Decision-Making & WhY Vulnerability Is Central To SuccessFul Leadership Today with Brandon Deer, VP of Operations & Strategy @ UiPath · Dec 20, 2019 · at 14:23
Brandon Deer is VP of Operations & Strategy at UiPath. He uses modern chess competition results as a mental model for human-robot collaboration in enterprise workflows.
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“Today, the best chess matches in the world are played by a combination or team of humans and computers, and what's even more interesting than that to me is that the best teams have no grandmaster and no supercomputer, and so what they really have is just mediocre of both and really great teamwork, and so to me, this exemplifies that a team of human plus robot working together Beats any standalone person or machine.”
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