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AI Literacy at Lunchtime Fall 2025

Workshop series

AI Literacy at Lunchtime Fall 2025

AI Literacy Certificate of Completion

This is a discussion-based workshop series. If you are interested in the AI Literacy Certificate, please contact Erin Burns, STEM Librarian. You must attend all 5 workshops, participate in the discussions, and answer the quiz questions sent to you.

What is ChatGPT and how does it (and similar technologies) work?

  • It is a large language model (LLM) that is "trained" on a large amount of data and GENERATES statistically probable text.
  • They DO NOT SEARCH FOR information
  • This could be correct or incorrect information
  • It is up to you to use your good judgment about it
  • They are NOT free from bias
  • Text from the internet (Wikipedia, public forums, Twitter, Reddit, code documents, etc) gets processed in a neural network
  • Good Wired article for more information