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Middlesex ChatGPT and Generative AI-A Student's Guide

This guide provides important information about Generative AI to students.

What Is GenAI?

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that employs machine learning algorithms to recognize patterns and formulate output, such as text, images, music, or videos, based on prompts input by the user. These algorithms run on vast amounts of training data to create machine learning models, such as large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Generative AI can be used in innumerable ways from content creation to problem solving. 

Popular GenAI Tools

For AI tools, please do not share or input personal or confidential information.  AI tools may use your content to train their models.

  • Can produce hallucinations.
  • May respond with inappropriate, harmful, or biased information.
  • is not a search engine. Chat GPT "has limited knowledge of world and events after 2021." (OpenAI, 2023)
  • does not have access to real-time information unless it's provided to it.
  • does not have direct access to subscription-based databases. Its training data depended on publicly available texts.

What is ChatGPT: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6783457-what-is-chatgpt

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