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GenAI tools may be able to help you in your work as a student, but it's important to remember that these are tools and they cannot replace the learning and growth needed as part of your learning process.
Where GenAI can't help
Where GenAI can't help
Generative AI is a tool and while it may be capable of many things there are things it will be unable to do just by the fact that it is an actual intelligence. Some functionalities may improve and new approaches may be developed but it is always worth considering what the tool is capable of.
Reflect on your own learning
Reflect on your own learning
Gen AI tools may be able to write products that look like authentic reflections, but reflections are introspective pieces processing your learning and understanding from an experience as you experienced it. A Gen AI tool may help in writing or formatting your reflection, but identifying what you experienced and how you experienced it will be something only you can do.
Synthesize entirely new ideas
Synthesize entirely new ideas
Generative AI tools can remix the materials they are trained on, which may be immensely large data sets, however concepts and forms outside of that dataset may be outside the scope of what that GenAI can produce. For a very simple example consider a brand new song, without the Gen AI being trained on the song prompts asking for remixes or incorporating elements of this song will not produce the outputs you intend if the Gen AI has no training on the song.
Guarantee accuracy of statements
Guarantee accuracy of statements
Generative AI tools can produce impressive outputs and present them convincingly, but the AI itself may not be able to discern fact from fiction and confidently state non-sense. Asking an AI to verify that a previous output has is correct is equally fraught. When using GenAI it will be important to evaluate the results for accuracy.
Guarantee academic integrity
Guarantee academic integrity
The Gen AI tools you use are not participating in the class you are taking and will not know the instructor's expectations regarding academic integrity. Additionally the Gen AI may not accurately cite its own sources, either misattributing or inventing sources.
Where GenAI can help
Where GenAI can help
As part of the Generative AI Task Force (GAIT)'s work in preparing resources and recommendations we asked students how they have experimented incorporating Generative AI into their work and what methods they found beneficial. As always you will need to evaluate the outputs for accuracy and be mindful of what material you input into the AI.
Generate text, graphs, audio, videos, and images
Generate text, graphs, audio, videos, and images
Generative AI tools can create different types of media. The options that are available for output may be dependent on the software and the training data used.
Summarize notes
Summarize notes
You may be able to upload notes directly or paste notes into a Gen AI tool and ask the tool to summarize the notes, highlight key points, patterns, or recommend questions to be able to answer.
Suggest solutions or plans
Suggest solutions or plans
If you have encountered a problem that you are having difficulty tackling you can try describing the problem and asking for multiple approaches to try and solve it.
Create a to-do list, timetable, or timeline
Create a to-do list, timetable, or timeline
If you are needing a process to follow you can describe the project you are working on and ask the AI tool to provide you a to-do list or project timetable. You may be able to have the tool breakdown some of the steps into smaller to-do lists if necessary.
Polish existing writing
Polish existing writing
You can submit your writing to a Gen AI tool and have it recommend approaches or style changes. Some Gen AI tools are specifically designed for things such as grammar and conciseness.
Explain questions or answers
Explain questions or answers
If you have specific questions you may be able to have a Gen AI explain the solution to your questions. You may also be able to prompt the AI into developing practice questions and evaluating your answers with feedback.
Aid brainstorming
Aid brainstorming
If you know a topic that you would like to work on, but cannot decide on angle to approach, you can describe your project and the theme to a Gen AI and ask it to return a number of approaches or questions that may help you decide.
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