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AI - Artificial Intelligence at the University

A guide to policies and tools related to Artificial Intelligence

Disclaimer

This list is not intended to be comprehensive. AI tools are constantly changing, with new developments every day.

Chat bots and conversational AI

ChatGPT: LLM Chatbot that is often used to help people draft essays, clean up code, brainstorm for products in development, or simply have a nice conversation. ChatGPT was one of the first conversational interfaces to a LLM.

Aria: Aria is a conglomerate of several LLM Chatbot AIs built to help Opera web browser users with their time on the internet. Aria has been pre trained by ChatGPT and Google Gemini, alongside some of Opera’s own training.

Google Gemini: Formerly known as Bard, Google Gemini is an LLM chatbot. It was originally developed to be a direct competitor to ChatGPT, as such, it does most of the same things as ChatGPT.

MS Copilot: Built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-4, MS Copilot is a general LLM chatbot built into Windows 11. MS Copilot operates on a freemium model in which most features can be used for free, but some features are locked behind a $20.00 monthly subscription model.

Character AI: an AI chatbot made to emulate certain characters for users to talk to. Several characters are user made, so there’s varying levels of quality with this tool.

Text to Image Models

Dall-E: a Text-To-Image Model developed by OpenAI to create images based on a text prompt, the current iteration, Dall-E 3 has also been integrated into ChatGPT 3, creating a seamless user experience between the two models.

Midjourney: A text-to-image model developed by the research lab by the same name, Midjourney AI is similar to OpenAI’s Dall-E, the tool is currently in open beta, although it does better with illustrative prompts than photorealistic ones.

Things to try out

Things you can try immediately:

HuggingFace Spaces is a great place to get started exploring the capabilities of AI. For example, this instruction synthesizer helps create multiple choice questions from a text input. Another cool example is CLIP interrogator, which will generate prompts based on image inputs.

Text to Video Models

DeepBrain AI: a text to video AI model, DeepBrain AI is used to create simple video projects from a text based prompt, useful for creating storyboards or concept videos as a rough cut for a larger project.

Synthesia: A text to video AI model, Synthesia AI is best used to generate a simple video presentation with pre generated characters. It’s often used to create simple e-learning lectures for online schools.

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