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Generative AI

A guide to generative AI (artificial intelligence) and its impact on higher education.

Artificial Intelligence & Academic Integrity

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Generative AIs

"Gemini is a conversational generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Google, based initially on the LaMDA family of large language models and later the PaLM LLM." Wikipedia

Gemini is available to all UMS users. Your data isn’t used to train or improve Gemini AI models!

"NotebookLM gives you a personalized AI collaborator that helps you do your best thinking. After uploading your documents, NotebookLM becomes an instant expert in those sources so you can read, take notes, and collaborate with it to refine and organize your ideas." Reference.

NotebookLM is available to all UMS users.

"ChatGPT (created by OpenAI) is a model which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests." ChatGPT

"Claude is a next-generation AI assistant built by Anthropic and trained to be safe, accurate, and secure to help you do your best work."

"Perplexity is a free AI search engine designed to revolutionize the way you discover information. Ask any question, and it searches the internet to give you an accessible, conversational, and verifiable answer. Think of Perplexity as a research partner, always on the clock, saving you valuable time by providing the precise knowledge you need." Reference

"Transform your content into engaging AI‑generated audio discussions!" Google Illuminate

The next era of Gemini. Gemini 2.0 is our most capable AI model yet, built for the agentic era. Google DeepMind

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