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The DIKW Model in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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The DIKW Model in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Tip uvodnik
Godina 2024
Časopis Postdigital science and education
Volumen 0
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Stranice str. 1-10
DOI 10.1007/s42438-024-00462-8
ISSN 2524-485X
EISSN 2524-4868
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Lured by shiny pearls of natural language conversation, many are led to believe that Artificial Intelligences (AIs) are today’s game-changer, comparable to past technological advances such as electricity and the petrol engine. ‘Data is the new oil,’ screams from the pages of Wired magazine (Toonders 2014). ‘Data as The New Oil Is Not Enough,’ warns the (always more conservative) Forbes (Talagala 2022). ‘Data was, Analytics is, the New Oil,’ argues the Geospatial World (Dhande 2021). Incepted by ChatGPT and other language models, the hype surrounding AI stubbornly occupies popular imagination, business, and politics. It would be foolish to uncritically buy into the hype, yet it would be downright dangerous to downplay the already significant changes brought about by AIs and/or disengage from discussions about its future trajectory and impact. In other words, we need to ride the wave of AI hype, but we need to ride it wisely (Jandrić 2023a, b). One way of doing that is to reflect deeply upon our own assumptions; theories and attitudes that have, semi-consciously or even unconsciously, shaped the way we see the world around us.

One such theory is the Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom (DIKW) pyramid. Wallace (2007) outlines that it is not certain to whom should be attributed the first presentation of the ‘data-to-information-to-knowledge-to-wisdom transformation’ pyramid, as this ‘hierarchical arrangement has been a part of the language of information science for many years’ (13). Notwithstanding, the author credits the work of Adler (1970) for an early implied hierarchy, Zeleny (1987) for solidifying its structural cogency, Ackoff (1989) for augmenting the pyramid through the addition of ‘understanding’, and Debons et al. (1988) for added complexity within its first graphical representation (Wallace 2007).

Ključne riječi

DIKW; Data; Information; Knowledge; Wisdom; Model; Pyramid; Artificial intelligence; AI; Postdigital; Hype; Posthumanism