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: Received: 21 September 2023 / Approved: 22 September 2023 / Online: 22 September 2023 (08:20:13 CEST)
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Spennemann, D.H. Will the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence Become an Age of Public Ignorance?. Preprints2023, 2023091528. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1528.v1
Spennemann, D.H. Will the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence Become an Age of Public Ignorance?. Preprints 2023, 2023091528. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1528.v1
Spennemann, D.H. Will the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence Become an Age of Public Ignorance?. Preprints2023, 2023091528. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1528.v1
APA Style
Spennemann, D.H. (2023). Will the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence Become an Age of Public Ignorance?. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1528.v1
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Spennemann, D.H. 2023 "Will the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence Become an Age of Public Ignorance?" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1528.v1
Abstract
Generative artificial intelligence (AI), in particular large language models such as ChatGPT have reached public consciousness with a wide-ranging discussion of their capabilities and suitability for various professions. Following the printing press and internet, generative AI language models are the third transformative technological invention with truly cross-sectoral impact on knowledge transmission. While the printing press allowed for the transmission of knowledge that is independent of the physical presence of the knowledge holder with publishers acting as gatekeepers, the internet added levels of democratization allowing anyone to publish, along with global immediacy. The development of social media resulted in an increased fragmentation and tribalization of on-line communities on their ways of knowing, resulting in alternative truths propagated in echo chambers. It is against this background that generative AI language models have entered public consciousness. Using strategic foresight methodology, this paper will examine the polemic proposition that the age of generative AI will emerge as an age of public ignorance.
Computer Science and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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