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Artifical Intelligence

Building AI Literacy

How AI Works

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?—Stephen Wolfram Writings

  • An in-depth explanation of the science behind ChatGPT.

Building AI Skills

Indiana University's GenAI Essential Skills

  • A free, self-paced Canvas course designed for anyone interested in developing essential GenAI skills. The course covers prompt engineering, evaluating AI-generated content, ethics and limitations of GenAI, information literacy, and learning with GenAI.

AI in Education

  • A Canvas course designed by students and staff at the University of Sydney to "democratise knowledge and skill of generative AI so that all students everywhere can be equipped with the skills to use this new technology productively and responsibly." (Note: There is information specific to the University of Sydney that does not apply to Oglethorpe University.)

Evaluating AI Content

Evaluating AI - Artificial Intelligence: For Students - Research Guides at Iona University

  • A guide by Iona University providing three techniques for critically evaluating AI: lateral reading, ROBOT, and SIFT.

AI Tools for Research

Scite - A tool that "helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence."

Perplexity - A search engine that "searches the internet in real time, gathering insights...then distills this information into a clear, concise summary."

SciSpace - A tool that provides "simple explanations and answers from AI and [helps] discover a network of connected and relevant papers."

Elicit - A tool that provides relevant papers, abstract summaries, and paper breakdowns.

Connected Papers - A visual tool that creates graphs demonstrating the relationships between papers.

Research Rabbit - A tool that visualizes the connections between papers based on citations.

Consensus - A search engine utilizing the Semantic Scholar database to analyze research papers for relevant details.

Undermind - A tool utilizing the Semantic Scholar search engine to search abstracts and metadata for relevant papers.

Semantic Scholar - A search engine that helps sort, cite, and manage papers.