Where can I get help using Generative AI?

• Generative AI is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images, or other media – like ChatGPT and the tools listed below. Generative AI grew out of a field of AI study and practice called machine learning.
  
• Machine learning is a type of AI that uses algorithms trained on data sets to create models that enable machines to perform tasks that would otherwise only be possible for humans. When we put a bunch of these algorithms together in a way that allows them to generate new data based on what they’ve learned, we get a model or an engine tuned to generate a particular type of data. The engine that powers Chat GPT is a large language model.
  
• Large language models are a type of AI algorithm that use deep learning techniques and large data sets to understand, summarize, generate and predict new content.

People often use the term AI to mean all of these things, one of these things, or something altogether different.

What is AI

• What Is Generative AI: A Super-Simple Explanation Anyone Can Understand by Bernard Marr at Forbes (September 2023).
• A simple guide to help you understand AI by By the Visual Journalism Team at BBC (July 2023).

Using AI for teaching an learning

Resources for teaching and learning with ChatBots and Generative AI

Games that demonstrate how generative AI models are built from data

How to write prompts for ChatBots and Generative AI

Things to think about

Updates on AI bias and ethics

Updates on Generative AI and copyright

See some additional resources and in the ChatGPT Gabfest summary.

Some Generative AI tools you might be using

• ChatGPT from Open AI
• Eduaide.AI – specifically for teachers
• Perplexity – ChatBot and search engine
• Anthropic Claude – an AI workplace assistant
• Bing Chat (Microsoft chat bot and search)
• ChatPDF
• Google AutoDraw
• Google Duet AI – for people with access to a Google Workspace account
• GrammarlyGO
• Microsoft Designer
• Microsoft Copilot form Microsoft
• Quizlet Q-Chat
• Google Gemini

And the controversial AI image generators:

DALL-E 2
Midjourney
Canva: Text to Image or Magic Edit
Padlet: I Can’t Draw
Adobe Firefly

Explainer videos from CommonCraft

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