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ChatGPT, AI, and Information Literacy

An AI Overview

AI - Narrow (Weak) and Strong (AGI) 

Before the emergence of ChatGPT, Claude or other Chat AI tools, we were already using AI in our everyday lives. Narrow AI, which are AI tools developed to perform a certain tasks, have existed as parts of search engines, digital assistants, and self-driving cars for at least a decade. Examples of narrow AI include: 

  • Machine Learning models 
  • Natural Language Processing systems
  • Speech Recognition
  • Predictive Analytics

Strong AI or Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is purely theoretical. AGI is defined as AI that has human-level cognitive abilities across all domains and which has self-awareness and reasoning abilities.

So what's the big deal about ChatGPT? 

ChatGPT is an advanced Narrow AI. ChatGPT and similar services combine various narrow AI abilities that have been around for a while, such as natural language processing and machine learning into one new narrow AI component known as large language model (LLM) generative AI. A large language model, or LLM, is a deep learning algorithm that can recognize, summarize, translate, predict and generate text and other content based on "knowledge" gained from massive datasets. This results in a highly user-friendly interface design that can rapidly generative content.

Blooms Taxonomy for AI