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Record W4248044419 · doi:10.31229/osf.io/y9swd

Is AI Literate?

2017· preprint· en· W4248044419 on OpenAlexaff
Michael Ridley

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEthics and Social Impacts of AI
Canadian institutionsUniversity of GuelphWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWatsonLiteracyIBMComputer scienceArtificial intelligencePsychologyCognitive scienceSociologyPedagogy

Abstract

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Artificial intelligence (AI) technology exhibits decision-making capabilities in specific domains on par with or exceeding that of human experts. Similarly, AI is increasingly making more mundane, if complex, decisions such as driving a car. AI such as IBM’s Watson ingest and synthesize enormous amounts of information. But is Watson literate? Do AI reflect literacy practices? Extending the idea of literacy or of being literate to AI challenges many assumptions about computers and ourselves. If we conclude that AI are literate, what does this mean for the idea of literacy? This exploration begins with two contentious ideas: What do we mean by AI? What do we mean by literacy?

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.029
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.037

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.029
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.026
Scholarly communication0.0110.014
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0040.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.150
GPT teacher head0.495
Teacher spread0.345 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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