\u00bfQu\u00e9 es el conocimiento t\u00e1cito?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Simply put, tacit knowledge is information that is buried in our subconscious minds and that we are not aware of until needed. For example, that gut feeling we get when something we see or are being told does not seem to make sense to us is one form of tacit knowledge at work.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nTacit knowledge is also experiences that are learned. The most widely recognized example is what we learn by riding a bicycle. You can\u2019t give someone a book to read on learning to ride a bike. You have to mount one, pedal it around, fall down and eventually you know how to ride it. A cook who can sense when a dish is seasoned \u201cjust right,\u201d is another example. These are real bodies of knowledge\u2014facts if you will\u2014that shape how we respond to circumstances and take actions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Los estudiosos de la informaci\u00f3n ven el mundo como un mundo lleno de hechos que son expl\u00edcitos o t\u00e1citos. Los hechos expl\u00edcitos son aquellos que pueden transferirse con facilidad, por ejemplo por escrito o de forma oral: me llamo Jim y nac\u00ed el 7th<\/sup>, or Canada borders the USA. Tacit is anything that is not explicit, such as what the mind accumulates in the way of information necessary to ride a bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Uno de los atributos clave de la IA es la capacidad de ese software para salir a Internet o entrar en archivos digitales, leerlo todo y extraer de all\u00ed respuestas a nuestras preguntas para crear textos de uso humano o para emprender acciones. Pero aquello de lo que se nutre es, por definici\u00f3n, expl\u00edcito, y, mediante reglas de software, extrae conclusiones y act\u00faa seg\u00fan c\u00f3mo analiza esos hechos. Sin embargo, hay un problema, porque los fil\u00f3sofos, las personas mayores, el clero, los neurocient\u00edficos y otros estudiosos de la informaci\u00f3n creen que en el mundo hay m\u00e1s conocimiento t\u00e1cito que expl\u00edcito. <\/p>\n\n\n\n El conocimiento t\u00e1cito ha sido objeto de numerosos estudios por parte de fil\u00f3sofos, psic\u00f3logos, expertos en biblioteconom\u00eda y documentaci\u00f3n, historiadores y economistas durante d\u00e9cadas. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n AI experts believe that, too, and so are trying to get to that body of knowledge. Another problem is that we really don\u2019t know how much there is out there since over 8 billion people have unique collections of such information. Imagine for an AI system trying to learn how to ride a bicycle all on its own or trying to deal with one organization\u2019s unique circumstance, or the reader\u2019s specific issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For the rest of us in any profession or academic discipline, therefore, we need to understand the existence, nature and use of tacit knowledge far beyond what we have known before. Humans also know and believe that what they individually understand about their realities and desires is often more profoundly influenced by tacit knowledge than by \u201cthe facts.\u201d A prejudice that flies in the face of known explicit knowledge is a good example. That children of immigrants tend to do quite well in a new society is a fact, but if you don\u2019t like immigrants, you will deny that because your gut instinct\u2014prejudice\u2014tells you otherwise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tacit knowledge has been the subject of much study by philosophers, psychologists, library information studies experts, historians, and economists for decades. Biologists are living in a golden age of discoveries about human and other animal brains, how they function, what they know, and so forth. Scientists are learning more these days than they have ever done in history. My research on tacit knowledge comes at the issue from history, its use in business and governmental environments, and how society uses it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have documented how people need to use it to travel through their workdays and personal lives. They integrate, then combine, explicit and tacit knowledge to make decisions and take action. That combination is part of a larger integration of information in families, neighborhoods, businesses, and society at large. We are learning that human and animal societies develop a wide variety of sources of information into what is increasingly known as information ecosystems, where one collection of facts or tacit understanding affects other collections of information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scholars are, first, identifying connections among bodies of explicit and tacit knowledge. Insights and discoveries in one discipline raise questions in other ones that can be studied to gain new insights, such as how computers\u2014AI\u2014can be shaped by what biologists learn about brain functions. Specialized journals are increasingly willing to publish articles, such as this one, which will accept papers from multiple fields, not just from political scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Las instituciones acad\u00e9micas exploran y ense\u00f1an el conocimiento t\u00e1cito y las pr\u00e1cticas de miner\u00eda de datos.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Complex projects increasingly require the skills and knowledge of people from multiple disciplines. These are then studied to see what new information ecosystems emerge and look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Los expertos tambi\u00e9n llevan sus ideas (su conocimiento t\u00e1cito) a empleos de otros campos; la \u00e9poca en que las personas pasaban toda su carrera en un mismo puesto o profesi\u00f3n se est\u00e1 desvaneciendo a medida que se desplazan, llevando el conocimiento t\u00e1cito a otros empleos, sectores y profesiones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cConnecting the dots\u201d is a byproduct of such behavior driven by a pervasive curiosity that one explains and which derives largely from tacit knowledge behavior. Effective performers go where the evidence takes them, such as when a grandparent suggests to their grandchild that they explore doing something different than originally intended, or that a mentor advises a young employee. Such users of tacit and explicit knowledge consciously try to build their own information infrastructures, such as reading journal articles in their profession, other media from different disciplines, asking questions, seeking out advice all over the place. They recognize that they swim in an ocean of unknown information that is interesting and of potential use to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 nos importa el conocimiento t\u00e1cito?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u00bfQu\u00e9 estamos aprendiendo?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u00bfC\u00f3mo se aprovechan las conexiones?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n