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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Ed

This AI in Higher Education LibGuide brings together a curated collection of research, articles, whitepapers, videos, webinars, and expert interviews that delve into the numerous ways AI is impacting higher education.

What is Generative AI?

Generative AI refers to a category of artificial intelligence techniques and models that are designed to generate content autonomously, often in the form of text, images, music, or other forms of creative output. These models use patterns learned from large datasets to create new content that is similar in style, structure, and context to the examples they were trained on.

One of the key advancements in generative AI is the development of models like Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), which are trained on massive amounts of text data to understand and replicate human language patterns. These models can generate coherent and contextually relevant text based on a given prompt.

Generative AI can be used for various purposes, including:

  1. Text Generation: Models like GPT-3 can generate human-like text based on prompts, write articles, answer questions, and even create poetry.

  2. Image Generation: Models like DALL-E can generate images from textual descriptions, allowing users to "describe" an image they want, and the model creates it.

  3. Music Composition: Generative AI models can create music compositions based on certain styles or artists, producing new melodies and harmonies.

  4. Video Generation: Some generative models can generate videos by extrapolating from existing video footage or creating entirely new sequences.

  5. Style Transfer: Generative models can transfer the style of one image onto the content of another, creating visually appealing combinations.

  6. Data Augmentation: Generative models can be used to create additional training data for machine learning algorithms, helping to improve their performance.

"Generated by OpenAI's GPT-3 model (ChatGPT). OpenAI. (2023, August 9). Message generated using GPT-3 model. Retrieved from [https://openai.com]"

 


Popular Generative AI Tools

"ChatGPT is a large language model trained by OpenAI based on the GPT-3.5 architecture. It is designed to generate human-like text based on the input it receives from users. ChatGPT can understand natural language queries and can provide answers to a wide range of questions, carry out tasks, and even engage in conversational exchanges with users. Its purpose is to assist people with their inquiries and provide accurate and helpful responses in a conversational manner" (OpenAI, 2023).

Gemini "is an experimental, conversational AI chat service developed by Google. It is powered by Google's most advanced large language model (LLM) PaLM 2, which was unveiled at Google I/O 2023. Bard can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way."

Bard, Google AI. "What is Google Bard?" Bard, Google AI, [August, 2023].

Copilot in Bing

"Copilot searches for relevant content across the web and then summarizes what it finds to generate a helpful response. It also cites it's sources, so you're able to see links to the web content it references." (Microsoft Bing).

Copilot FAQ (scroll down to bottom) - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing?ep=0&form=MA13LV&es=31

Bing Copilothttps://www.bing.com/search?q=Bing%20AI&showconv=1&form=MA13LV

 

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