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#AI illiteracy is real. While still arguing with a bunch of AI haters, #Copilot and I just finished our #Pascal #BLAS level 1-3 Implementation plus eigenvalue, cholesky, and sparse #matrix, so we will never need #python, #C, C#, #Rust, ... for our Small Language Project. We will expand our Pascal Numeric Library (PNL) v1.0 to something like #Numpy and #Pytorch, but with static arrays, deterministic data structure, no referencing, no pointer arithmetic.
@ahau hello, no hating here, happy user of AI for sysadmin assistance, but just out of curiosity, when Word does the spell check, the formatting and page numbering you say “Word and I just finished a document”? If not, sooner or later someone will start a campaign for the right of non-discrimination of poor clippy against AI supremacism 😅While I subscribe the concern over AI illiteracy I think that literates should make an effort to facilitate the understanding of reality beyond hype.
@ahau @gubi But what does "AI literacy" mean? What kind of skills or knowledge do you have to acquire?
I'm not doing much with AI, but I vibe-coded two small projects and to me, it doesn't look like it would need an additional skill set (apart from being able to properly express what you want in natural language - something some devs are admittedely not good at).
So I don't see much reason for FOMO
@goedelchen @ahau IMHO "AI Literacy" is the basic set of skills and knowledge needed to avoid undue interference on your cognitive sphere and knowledge building fostered by commercial hype and marketing of companies trying to recruit new customers to pay monthly fees for services of automated content generation that are overvalued, overpriced and doomed to enshittification, with risks ranging from ignorance to death that are unlikely for the individual but a statistics certainty for the masses.
@gubi @goedelchen The real problem is, you don't have the basic knowledge of anything. Laughing will not help you and you will be replaced not by AI, but people who know how to use AI. LOL
@ahau @goedelchen "you will die if you don't do what I do" did not always work with lay people to improve the understanding and the acceptance of vaccines.
In a similar way, "you will be replaced by people like me if you don't do what I do LOL" may work even less to improve the understanding and the acceptance of content generators, if we insist to humanize them in our talking.
My concern is over effective communication to explain effective technologies and effective science.
@gubi In the 70s when calculators first came out, people said calculators would make kids stupid. In the 80s when computer came out, some people were still using typewriters. In about 2010, smart phones replaced computers making most people computer illiterate. Unfortunately, proper use of AI requires some basic computer knowledge plus general knowledge in everything. Most people are too specialized and are computer illiterate. They are incapable of understanding this technology. Good luck.
@ahau I agree on all you said, I am just pointing out the need to use the clearest and unambiguous possible wording, avoiding misleading analogies and metaphors that serve private interests for marketing and not the public interest for knowledge. We already did it in the past when primitive hardware was sold by advertisers as “electronic brains” for five dollars, and after dismissing this stealing of vocabulary from medical sciences we should do the same with cognitive social sciences.
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