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AI Literacy & Help Guide

AI Literacy & Help Guide

 

An Introduction to Generative AI

This guide will cover Generative Artificial Intelligence applications that can generate text, images, video, music, or speech. If you are new to the practice of using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, these short videos provide a useful introduction.

Practical AI for Instructors and Students (10 to 12 minutes each)
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

These are a few examples of Generative Artificial Intelligence applications:

  • ChatGPT
  • Microsoft Copilot
  • Gemini
  • Dall-E
  • Perplexity
  • Adobe Firefly
  • Midjourney
  • Eleven Labs
  • And more

About Chat GPT

Several artificial intelligence web-based applications have been introduced to the public. ChatGPT is a tool created by Open AI and supported by Microsoft. This further led to the development of Microsoft Bing’s AI Chat Bot. More recently, Google has released Bard, an experimental AI Chatbot.

Language Models

Each tool uses a different large language model (LLM). Google Gemini uses LaMDA, a language model developed by Google to be more conversationalist. These tools enable learning to occur, supervised or unsupervised. Unsupervised learning occurs by using a large data set that is not labeled. This allows the model to learn the structure and patterns of the data in detail (Lund, 2023).

Interested in More Information?

Here is a free online introduction to artificial intelligence for non-experts

Learn more about MinnaLearn's and the University of Helsinki's AI course - no programming or complicated math required.

Introduction presented by Raven Fonfa and Kyle Wright on April 17, 2023

Multimedia generative AI


Creating multimedia with AI tools
Creating multimedia with AI tools - tutorial
 

This tutorial includes:

Images

Kinds of images you can create | Image generation tools | Prompting | The technology

Other media
Videos | Voices | Music

Ethical issues
Deepfakes | Recognizing AI-generated images | Bias | Copyright

And...
Views from artists, musicians, and professors of art

Recordings of QM AI Webinars can be found on their YouTube channel about two weeks after the webinar. This link includes several past trainings on AI. 

 


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