Purpose & Disclaimer

This toolkit is not intended to either endorse or discourage the use of these tools at Fisher. Please consult with your supervisor about the appropriate use of AI tools in your role. Within academic courses, it is the responsibility of the faculty member to decide if/how AI may be used in their course(s) and to communicate that to students in an open conversation. It is the student's responsibility to check with their instructors about the specific use of AI tools in each of their courses. 

What is Artificial Intelligence vs. Generative Artificial Intelligence? 

• Artificial Intelligence: As defined by IBM, a long-standing leader in artificial intelligence, “at its simplest form, artificial intelligence is a field, which combines computer science and robust datasets, to enable problem-solving. It also encompasses sub-fields of machine learning and deep learning, which are frequently mentioned in conjunction with artificial intelligence. These disciplines are comprised of AI algorithms which seek to create expert systems which make predictions or classifications based on input data.”

Source: https://www.ibm.com/topics/artificial-intelligence 

• Generative Artificial Intelligence: According to the World Economic Forum, generative artificial intelligence “refers to a category of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that generate new outputs based on the data they have been trained on.” Tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, DALL-E 2 are all examples of generative AI.

Source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/02/generative-ai-explain-algorithms-work/ 

To learn more about artificial intelligence and its many sub-domains, this Introduction to Generative AI from Google [video] is a great place to start. 

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