Growing Your AI IQ: A Guide to Building AI Competence

For all its promised benefits and applications across industries, AI remains neither fully transparent nor explainable. For this and other reasons, AI is challenging us in myriad ways, both in what we must learn and how we must learn it—and it is doing so at warp speed. The Computer article, “Grow Your Artificial Intelligence Competence,” by Christof Ebert and Ulrich Hemel outlines these challenges and spells out required AI competences and how individuals and organizations can build them. Critical AI Competences AI competences span a range of hard and soft skills, as well as explicit and implicit knowledge: Explicit competences are built by intentionally learning information, such as when we study and learn words in a new language. are built by intentionally learning information, such as when we study and learn words in a new language. Implicit competences grow “in the absence of conscious awareness” in discrete episodes over time, as when we learn how to speak a new language. T ... Read full article.