Mike, regarding the LLM Literacy part of your graphic, do you consider the three branches below the possible, positive results? If so, what do you think goes into building or enabling it? What are the prerequisites and ingredients for LLM Literacy in your view?
Hey Nico! I view the three branches below LLM Literacy not as a results but as 'strategies' or 'pedagogies.' I believe we can leverage these skills, pedagogies, and approaches to develop that form of LLM Literacy.
As for what goes into building it, I'm working on it! I am going to build resources and share experiments in this area as time goes on. So keep an eye out!
I appreciate your efforts at streamlining and simplifying the approach to promoting AI literacy. I’m doing something similar, though in a different context. I teach Cognitive Psychology and am “revamping as I go” this semester by incorporating a facet of AI into each week of the semester. Given the rich and shared history between the two fields it’s been a pretty smooth process so far, and it’s exceedingly valuable. My students span sophomore to senior and have already had many 🤯-moments and we are only just finishing week 6. My organizational mantra so far is that if we want to understand machine-intelligence we need to first understand human intelligence. The contrast has been extremely helpful and paved the way for a lot of AI mythbusting. In your deep dive do you discuss this too— the usefulness of the contrast between human and machine “intelligence?”
I have heard of many folks taking this approach, yes, separating the characteristics of human intelligence from AI so that we can better understand both. To me, it is the first of two major prongs in the dev of AI Lit.
1. Separate the characteristics so that you "re-orient" yourself towards AI
2. Identify and emphasize "existing skills" that we already have that help us use AI safely (the above image.)
Sounds like great work you are doing. I definitely can see great synergy between cognitive psych and understanding AI. Your class sounds like a great place to study and develop AI Lit.
Mike, regarding the LLM Literacy part of your graphic, do you consider the three branches below the possible, positive results? If so, what do you think goes into building or enabling it? What are the prerequisites and ingredients for LLM Literacy in your view?
Hey Nico! I view the three branches below LLM Literacy not as a results but as 'strategies' or 'pedagogies.' I believe we can leverage these skills, pedagogies, and approaches to develop that form of LLM Literacy.
As for what goes into building it, I'm working on it! I am going to build resources and share experiments in this area as time goes on. So keep an eye out!
I often comment that saying one needs AI is like saying one needs weather, it is accurate but not particularly useful.
Frameworks like this help drive precision. Well done and Thanks.
I have one correction though. You can’t copyright a two word phrase "LLM Literacy©" It may be a trademark, assuming you cross trademark thresholds, but it isn’t a copyright.
https://fairuse.stanford.edu/2003/09/09/copyright_protection_for_short/
This may seem pedantic, but given the pivotal role copyright has on the legality of LLM model creation, it’s important to use the terms correctly.
I appreciate your efforts at streamlining and simplifying the approach to promoting AI literacy. I’m doing something similar, though in a different context. I teach Cognitive Psychology and am “revamping as I go” this semester by incorporating a facet of AI into each week of the semester. Given the rich and shared history between the two fields it’s been a pretty smooth process so far, and it’s exceedingly valuable. My students span sophomore to senior and have already had many 🤯-moments and we are only just finishing week 6. My organizational mantra so far is that if we want to understand machine-intelligence we need to first understand human intelligence. The contrast has been extremely helpful and paved the way for a lot of AI mythbusting. In your deep dive do you discuss this too— the usefulness of the contrast between human and machine “intelligence?”
I have heard of many folks taking this approach, yes, separating the characteristics of human intelligence from AI so that we can better understand both. To me, it is the first of two major prongs in the dev of AI Lit.
1. Separate the characteristics so that you "re-orient" yourself towards AI
2. Identify and emphasize "existing skills" that we already have that help us use AI safely (the above image.)
Sounds like great work you are doing. I definitely can see great synergy between cognitive psych and understanding AI. Your class sounds like a great place to study and develop AI Lit.