The K-Report

Welcome to the K-Report. It is a method that will make your life better. That is, if youhave to write something like a paper, book, term paper, essay, or anything else in thatcategory. The first thing that will pop in to your mind is that it is AI, and we all knowby now that the letters stand for Artificial Intelligence. The subject of this book usesAI, but it isn’t AI.The name Artificial Intelligence emanated from an academic conference at DartmouthCollege in the summer of 1956. There is no great advantage at this time to mentionthe participants, except that they are all famous and extremely intelligent. It is proper,however, to mention that Claude Shannon and John McCarthy coined the catchyname Artificial Intelligence and a couple of other participants from Carnegie Tech - nowCarnegie Mellon - namely Herbert Simon and Allen Newell coined the name ComplexInformation Processing. The zippy title Artificial Intelligence was selected, and one canimagine what it would be like today if the second title had won out.One of the most useful concepts imbedded in AI is generative AI. Generative AIis a process that uses three forms: a foundation of information, an application model,and a sophisticated front end that makes the information useful. It is s a system thatgenerates information for use by the end user.With generative AI, a computer system is trained with reinforcement learning throughhuman feedback, and a reward system that analyzes, combines various forms, andranks the responses.There is one well known generative AI product and it is known as ChatGPT, thatprocesses text, next words, sentences, and paragraphs bases on some learningfoundation. GPT is an acronym for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer and Chat is abot that talks - in a sense - and comes from the word Chatbot.Human intellectual formulation is based on a generative model. You do not needto know this but it sounds good.The notion of a K-Report is a hybrid writing form that combines the written wordand generated information from a generative AI application. Through this process,much like human formulation, precise writing is accomplished with the combination ofa written document and generated information.This book is an example for the reader of a hypothetical problem that is addressedthrough human cooperation with generated information. The K-Report process helpsto make a written contribution more exact and more efficient. The book itself combinesa typical human problem with generated information. The example has no obviousapplication other than to inform the reader.This book contains no violence, no sex, and no bad language. It is accessible toreaders of all ages. The author would like to thank his daughter Kathryn for assistancewith the project and for her love and kindness.