Generative AI Tools
- ChatGPT (OpenAI)Limitations as posted on website: "May occasionally generate incorrect information. May occasionally produce harmful instructions or biased content. Limited knowledge of world and events after 2021."
- Elicit"Elicit uses language models to help you automate research workflows, like parts of literature review. Elicit can find relevant papers without perfect keyword match, summarize takeaways from the paper specific to your question, and extract key information from the papers."
Tools for Detecting AI-Produced Content
- GPTZeroApp designed to detect text generated by ChatGPT.
Readings on Generative AI in Higher Ed
Bryan Alexander's "Resources for Exploring ChatGPT and Higher Education" is a good place to identify key readings and resources. He continues to add new resources to the list since first publishing it in December 2022.
Additional readings (includes those recommended on the CSB and SJU Faculty Discussion List):
Additional Resources
- Classroom Policies for AI Generative Tools (Google Docs)A collaborative effort to share syllabus policies on AI generative tools. (h/t Derek Larson)
- Can ChatGPT write an academic paper? Review of "A Day in the Life of ChatGPT"Mashrin Srivastava tried to get ChatGPT to write a full academic paper. This report reviews the process used, and the results generated by ChatGPT. It finds the generated paper unconvincing as an academic work, still subject to the well-known weaknesses of large language models.
- Tools such as ChatGPT threaten transparent science; here are our ground rules for their useNature, along with all Springer Nature journals, has formulated principles specifying how large language models (LLMs) can be used in papers.
