7 June 2023
Who: Charles Darwin University (CDU) Associate Professor in Education (E-Learning) Dr Jon Mason
Topics:
- How are search tools such as Google being affected by Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
- How will AI change search?
- Does this mean the end of search tools?
- Should there be regulations when it comes to search tools and AI?
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Quotes attributable to Dr Mason:
“Search is essentially a ‘fast-food’ approach to inquiry. Very good fast-food, though not necessarily a complete diet. While search capabilities have steadily improved since the Web was invented, they operate in an ‘informational’ space.”
“AI is changing things by enabling a dialogic dimension to the production of text and this can be ‘explanational’.”
“Search engines like Google & Bing are already being left behind though they are quickly reinventing their interfaces. Bing successfully did this first.”
“Search will remain a pivotal capability of the digital environment, but its dominance is in decline. Dialog will compete with it in the form of conversational agents, but many other personal and organisational productivity tools will emerge.
“Plausibility helps us make sense of things but it is also what convinces conspiracy theorists. And for politicians everywhere, spinning it is a performance art. With the new AI tools, plausibility will soon be on steroids.”
“Both standardisation and regulation of AI systems is urgently needed. The challenge right now is that innovation is way out in front and governments all around the world a playing catch-up.”
Other articles by Jon Mason:
Artificial Intelligence and Evolution of the Virtual University
Questioning the Scope of AI Standardization in Learning, Education, and Training
https://journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/JICTS/article/view/2643
The search continues: Content used to be king, but context is now everything – and ‘smart’ can morph into ‘stupid’
https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/june-2023/artificial-intelligence/the-search-continues/
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Emily Bostock
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