The Next Generation Teams project studies structured communication protocols that exist in workplace teams that use AI agents and the ways AI agent interventions can be used to correct deviations from those protocols. Team performance is being studied in terms of AI effects on coordination, creativity, and plan recognition.
The Next Generation Teams project is advancing four fundamental research efforts:
1. Detecting communication breakdowns in teams by developing and evaluating algorithms through new experiments involving human-AI teaming.
2. Modeling team coordination with a particular focus on “shared latent constructs that explain and predict team interactions.”
3. AI plan recognition via algorithms guided by natural language understanding.
4. Understanding team creativity by developing models for detecting creativity at both the individual and team levels and then studying the relationships between closed-loop communication, creativity and team performance.
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“ToMCAT,” the Theory of Mind-Based Cognitive Architecture for Teams, is a DARPA-funded project aimed at developing artificial intelligence with a ‘theory of mind,’ and create AI that is a good teammate to humans. Researchers are developing AI agents paired to humans, in a Minecraft video game environment. Ideally, the agent observes, it
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