AI Literacy vs AI Fluency (part 1) · ROAI

Arvell Craig

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AI Literacy vs AI Fluency (part 1)

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about AI literacy and AI fluency.

Both are essential, yet they are quite distinct.

To me literacy is a general understanding of AI's past, present, and future.

It helps with leadership.

It helps with hiring and strategic thinking.

It helps with planning and processing news and events.

Literacy comprises of understanding history of type of AI: machine learning, deep learning, and generative.

Literacy in AI understand that AI's been around for 50 years.

That deep learning AI is what drove social media in 2010's to become addictive and change societies online attention.

It's was made YouTube and and Netflix's algorithm understand what shows to recommend.

AI is not not new... but in the last few years a number of things happened to open up this new wave...

When you're AI literate, you understand the 3 components of AI: data, compute, and algorithm.

You know how the invention of the transformer in 2017 (by Google) was the key to the algorithm that unlocked generative AI. Which Open AI capitalized and used to create the first GPT.

And how NVIDA's processors are the key to compute and the unlawful scraping of the internet is the data component of today's AI boom.

To be AI literate, you understand how all AI is just a prediction algorithm, leveraging the scope of human language to predict the next token. And with prediction the results are not guaranteed to be exact.

AI literacy, you understand the principle of prompting and that as AI is built upon the human language, language is also the driver of results.

To be literate, it means you understand the levels of AGI: Chatbots > Reasoners > Agents > Organizations and Innovators.

... and when organization and innovators are live, we'll enter a realm of AGI - Artificial General Intelligence where AI is generally as smart and capable as the average human... in understanding all of life.

You understand this goal of AGI and even ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) where AI is infinitely more capable in all aspects of reality -- is the GOAL of the scientist and engineers who are building today's AI.

Being AI literate is understanding the uncertainty of the future. And that those who are pushing AI forward both in the US and across the globe have numerous motives both for the benefit of humanity and the forceful protection of their own countries.

This is a portion of what being AI literate is.

But it's not the same as being AI fluent...

I'll share later this week on fluency of AI.

Create a Great Day!

P.S.

This will likely be a mini course.

If you have any interest in the topic, please drop a comment!

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