Professional Development – 2025 – Weeks 28 & 29

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AI

Why Understanding AI Doesn’t Necessarily Lead People to Embrace It

“Our studies found that the greater interest in AI wasn’t because people with less knowledge thought AI was more capable or more ethical. Quite the opposite: People with lower AI literacy saw AI as less capable and more ethically concerning. Yet, they were more likely to have used it themselves and to want it used by others.”

How to Spot Fake AI Photos

  • Compute the residual noise and look for star patterns in the Fourier transform of that noise
  • Draw perspective lines and see if they converge to the same vanishing point
  • Social media is not a place to get news and information

Cognition

Epistemic humility

This concept describes the awareness and acknowledgment of the limits of one’s knowledge. People with greater expertise are typically more conscious of the complexities in their field, and thus, more aware of what they do not know or fully understand. A related term (suggested by ChatGPT) is the demystification effect where increased understanding or familiarity with a technology, process, or system reduces awe, excitement, or interest.

Product

A User Story Mapping Example with David Hussman

This is an example of things a retail clerk would do broken out into processes and sub-processes.