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Generative AI

In this research guide you will discover the inner workings of generative AI models, learn how to appropriately use and cite these models, and dive deep into both broader ethics and breaking news of AI.

What can AI do?

If you are interested in using generative AI in your classroom or work, here are some tasks generative AI can perform that might help you come up with an idea that would fit:

  • Answer questions with relative accuracy on a variety of concepts
  • Generate essays or other short-form writing
  • Generate images, videos, music and other media based on a given prompt
  • Generate computer code in a variety of languages
  • Generate lesson plans and tests
  • Revise work based on your input

What can AI NOT do?

Generative AI is being updated constantly, so some of these things may be possible in the future.

  • Check its own work for accuracy - while some forms of generative AI can do a basic form of this, ultimately it cannot understand why something it generated could be wrong, which is why people are always needed to fact check
  • Have common sense - AI does not, and definitionally cannot, have the human experience that common sense requires
  • Reflect on a personal level

Using AI in the classroom...

AI in the classroom 1 by Shekinah Lawrence