IMR23B

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SINDISWA LULAMA MKHWANAZI
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IMR23B3 Research Report 2
Introduction

The phrase “practice makes perfect,” can be centred around the definition of personal
knowledge which is gained through making something a habit. The mastery of personal
knowledge includes the ability to tailor your knowledge and way of thinking according to
professional communities and social networks related to you. The ability of human beings to
access information has exponentially increased over the years and it can only require even
more skill to handle and optimize the information. From my personal experience with the
utilization of AI (Artificial Intelligence), I have discovered that it is necessary to apply AI into
personal knowledge as it provides accurate and reliable information which should enhance the
structuring of information overload.

One way for AI to be used to aid personal knowledge mastery is by integrating tacit knowledge
through the application of ANNs which mimic how the human brain works and such as Natural
Language Processing (NLP), speech recognition, social media, and marketing. These
applications include personalization and usage of similar information used in the past.

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AI hinders personal knowledge mastery as it provides an overload of explicit knowledge. The

absence of tacit knowledge could lead to repetitive ideas, failure to solve complex problems that
have never been solved before, individuals avoiding sharing their own ideas which seem to not
be backed by any documented research. Productivity may decrease and so will the quality and
result in AI saturated knowledge, leading to sabotaging AI itself, as human brain's natural way of
thinking will be altered which would default the application of ANNs in AI. In this case human
beings need to assist AI as much as they need assistance from it. After training AI with
examples, it will be able to search for information based on context. Artificial Intelligence can be
applied to personal knowledge mastery for intelligence search of knowledge, automatic
classification of knowledge and conversion of tacit knowledge to solve the problems of
information overload, unstructured information, and the problem of tacit knowledge. Intelligent
search is used to minimize the results obtained by a search program and to increase the
possibility of relevance of the results. To improve the efficiency of traditional search engines
there is the usage of ANNs suggested. After such training with examples, it is possible to search
for information using it not only by keywords but by the content, meaning, context of the text.
Most of the activities in personal KM will need intelligent support which can be implemented via
intelligent agents.
The unstructured data are best handled through the automatically generated classification of
the knowledge. In this way, knowledge may be divided based on the classification to bring out
sub-themes, thus converting into a hierarchy in the process. Since this software’s purpose is to
facilitate the identification of major statistical similarities between documents, statistical software
is needed. Induced rules are used to make a classification of the new documents. Converting
tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge is an important aspect of personal knowledge mastery.
This can be done through codification, which involves creating checklists or guidelines that
outline the steps involved in a particular task. Expert systems are another technique used to
convert tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge by computer programs that mimic the decision-
making process of human experts. Through converting tacit knowledge of specialists into an
expert system, such knowledge can be disseminated in various fields.

AI hinders society only when people do not know how to construct the questions they feed into
AI. I am sure that all the PKM systems, and all the note-taking systems are nearing their end or
at best an extinction level event. It is also very evident that current forms of knowledge
management shall not apply when AI has full knowledge of everything.

This dooms the concept of knowledge as it is commoditized and made available by ChatGPT
and other Large Language Models from any point. They will have to be redesigned and some
aspects of them, including questions to be addressed and posed, must be scaffolded by artificial
intelligence, and posed by us. The questioning framework, as mentioned, will be added on top
of our blogs, articles, and essays as we are doing now and the additional questions from the AI
would help fill in the gaps.

Having a device that grants access to all human knowledge is one thing; having access to
search for something significant is another thing. AI means that search result set will no longer
be in the realm of thousands of links. Some of them take as little as 31 seconds to answer, in
which we spend several more hours trying to find the exact essence of the answers from among
all the possibilities. Nevertheless, a single question addressed to the device will Shift the access
settings paradigm. Questions will be the modern product of the new knowledge access
formation. It is in our DNA to be inquisitional; we have always been so; as individuals, some are
more inquisitional than others.

So, if we were to establish a new Questioning Management System with the aim of getting
feedback from our computerized kinfolk, the capacity to produce the right questions will be
worth more than the actual correct answers.
If we know (or at least strongly suspect) that questioning is a starting point for our reimagined
PKM, how can we design systems and environments which will encourage me and hopefully
many others to ask more questions?

Designing a system that would challenge the thinking of people will not be an easy task. Thus,
our brains are always looking for ways to minimize the load, and people most of the time act in
accordance with customs, precedents, and habits and not with knowledge. In a confrontation
between knowledge and habit, it feels like knowledge is almost useless. Thankfully, our
reimagined PKM does not compel us to think further, but instead helps our AI in terms of
building a framework of questions. The beauty though is while we are merely flying on auto pilot
and lightening our cognitive load; we get to have a co-pilot to explore the theories of creativity,
or relativity; muster from the greatest concepts, using the best of logics and all this out of
something as inconsequential as, AI.

Conclusion

AI mostly aids personal knowledge mastery if used correctly and optimized. As AI cannot
produce its own ideas, it can only catalyse human creativity. AI can find things which others
cannot even imagine looking for, in vast data sets: To create new hypotheses. It can also
provide less challenge for the audience in understanding messages than plain data and
numbers. When used in its primary form of data handling, AI can efficiently sort, filter, group and
prioritize big chunks of data originating from many sources. It can also create knowledge graphs
and assist humans in realizing that there may be relationships between the data that have not
been seen before. In the future, such tools as ChatGPT will explain complex relationships and
we will not have to read dozens of websites or articles. However, I discovered that it can only
support some of the skills needed in idea development.

It erases realities; it does not understand the close human interaction or personal encounters at
all. Any search that is not specifically aimed at a specific goal, along with adding new types of
knowledge on the fly and even lack of the ability to improvise are some of the essential
problems for AI. In the end, AI does just that, it follows the commands given to it, the data which
is provided to it, and the goals set for it.

We must consider cognitive atrophy when we conceive of AI. While I like the idea of a chatbot in
terms of question-and-answer setup, I am a little concerned about the amount of non-productive
struggle it may create. Here I am concerned by the instant solutions often leading to the
elimination of some of the most important aspects of the learning process such as boredom and
confusion. I really enjoy that with the help of AI, I can put together ideas, but I never want AI to
be my go-to approach for brainstorming. There is however merit in applying AI at some stages
of creative work, at the course nexus where project-based work is predominant. Indeed, it might
take a toll on us such that we reduce the capability of engaging in such forms of thinking to the
usage of AI.

This idea has it that the implementation and development of the AI should be governed by the
learning targets and not the other way around. That means getting to a world where humans are
no longer the default in the presence of AI. In Research Report 1 we were asked to use AI for
writing, we first needed to know what proficient writing looks like, that takes time, effort, and a
bunch of mistakes. In this report we were asked to edit an AI generated text with our own
opinion, we needed to find our creative voice first. We want to avoid using AI to check our
processes if we have not first learned the writing process.