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Artificial Intelligence Tools for Detection, Research and Writing

Generative AI Related Writing and Research Tools Co-Owned and Co-Curated by Brian Quinn and Erin Burns

AI Workshop

Only Faculty, Staff and Students of Texas Tech University can view the video below.
You may use this link to access the workshop video on Mediasite.
Please see this Guide for information related to the Workshop.

Artificial Intelligence Explainer

Meme: "Tell me more about" with original Willy Wonka. White text says "Tell me more about Artificial Intelligence"

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
  • See Wired article for more information