Inside the Indianapolis Public Library’s new AI classes

INDIANAPOLIS (MIRROR INDY) — When Donna Meek started hearing more and more about artificial intelligence, her first response was fear.

“What is this going to introduce in my life that I’m not going to understand?” Meek, 78, asked.

The Indy library started offering artificial intelligence classes earlier this year in response to requests from patrons. One course is a general overview of what generative AI is and how to use it, and another is specifically focused on how to recognize AI-generated content.

While artificial intelligence has been around for decades, the rapid development of large-language models such as ChatGPT has brought more users to the technology. But the technology is growing so fast that many people are struggling to understand how AI actually works…

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