Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: General artificial intelligence (AI) and more specific generative AI (GenAI) label the latest wave in information technology advance. Today's developments are driven by the confluence of carefully layered deterministic and probabilistic algorithms running on networks of very high-performance processors that have access to enormous volumes of structured and unstructured inputs. Beyond the immediate excitement of new technical breakthroughs lies Engelbart's (1962) vision of the inexorable advance of our species' ability to use tools and knowledge to amplify and augment human physical and mental existence. More historically, we are in the midst of thousands of years of human appreciation for an evolving notion of intelligence (Tenen, 2024). Given this context for GenAI and related technologies, what are the roles and responsibilities for information and library science professionals?
DOI: 10.17615/vg5a-qq31
Author: Marchionini, Gary
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4403241148