生成式人工智能与知识生产新形态——关于三阶知识生产的探析

Generative Artificial Intelligence and New Forms of Knowledge Production--Analysis on the Production of the Third Order Knowledge

知识生产是智能时代人类的“主业”,以ChatGPT为代表的生成式人工智能正在深度地介入和改变人类知识生产的方式和内涵,使得“三阶知识生产”在既有一阶和二阶知识生产的基础上走向前台。三阶知识生产开辟了文本自动生成和人机对话等智能交互的新方式,可以对人在知识生产中提升效率以及获取灵感等提供强大的帮助,还可以取代人的一些传统的二阶知识生产活动,并为提升一阶知识生产能力拓展了新的路径。通过三阶知识来定位生成式人工智能的认识论功能,有助于合理地评价以ChatGPT为代表的知识生产新工具的价值和意义。

Knowledge production is the“main business”of human beings in the era of intelligence.Generative artificial intelligence represented by ChatGPT is deeply intervening and changing the way and connotation of human knowledge production,making“third-order knowledge production”move towards the forefront on the basis of existing first-order and second-order knowledge production.Third-order knowledge production has opened up new ways of intelligent interaction such as text automatic generation and human-machine dialogue,which can provide powerful assistance for people to improve efficiency and obtain inspiration in knowledge production.It can also replace some traditional second-order knowledge production activities and expand new paths for improving first-order knowledge production capacity.Positioning the epistemological function of generative artificial intelligence through third-order knowledge helps us to reasonably evaluate the value and significance of new knowledge production tools such as ChatGPT.