As part of OIT’s continuous efforts to enhance our community’s virtual meeting experiences, we are excited to announce the recent activation of Zoom’s AI Companion tool at SMU, a tool that offers meeting hosts the ability to generate an AI-generated meeting summary based on the transcript of any meeting scheduled with SMU’s Zoom. This advanced tool is designed to help hosts generate AI-authored summaries of virtual meetings, ensuring that important discussions and decisions are accurately documented and easily accessible. However, OIT is witnessing an increasing use of personal, non-institutional AI summary technologies; we want to remind our community that it is essential that, while at work, we must all adhere to safe practices that respect all participants’ privacy. Here are some key do’s and don’ts to keep in mind. Continue reading Using Generative AI Meeting Summary Technologies at SMU: Some Do’s and Don’ts
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Some Guidance for Utilizing Generative AI
OIT has been closely following the development of various generative AI products and evaluating their potential implications for teaching, learning, research, and university operations. Here, we can define generative AI as a technology that can generate new content similar to what they have learned from training data. Generative AI is a subset of AI that focuses on creating previously unseen outputs and can include text, images, music, and more. Continue reading Some Guidance for Utilizing Generative AI
Curious About Copilot? Check out these LinkedIn Learning Courses!
Microsoft’s new Copilot AI assistant, formerly known as Bing Chat, has been getting a lot of buzz lately! Along with all of the other AI innovations in the news recently, Microsoft AI is geared towards being an easily available companion when browsing the Internet, working with documents, and for generic requests.
Starting to work with an AI chatbot can be overwhelming, but Continue reading Curious About Copilot? Check out these LinkedIn Learning Courses!
AI for Your Inbox? Improving Incoming Emails Being Marked as Junk
OIT recently deployed Abnormal Security to supplement Microsoft Defender for Office 365, our primary email security (anti-spam) application. Utilizing artificial intelligence as part of the criteria to determine if a message is malicious, these applications help to eliminate emails that are unsolicited or contain threats to data security. With assistance from our end users, the AI learns to correctly identify suspicious messages by the act of users dragging and dropping false positive spam from Junk to Inbox, or vice versa for any unsolicited or unwanted messages. Other methods of strengthening the results include using the Report Message button in Outlook or forwarding messages to spam@smu.edu. Continue reading AI for Your Inbox? Improving Incoming Emails Being Marked as Junk
Changes to Turnitin AI Detection Tool at SMU
As we constantly adapt to the changes in educational technologies, we have an important update regarding our use of the Turnitin anti-plagiarism tool. Since last year, SMU has been participating in a beta trial of Turnitin’s AI-based anti-plagiarism detection tool. However, as of December 31, 2023, SMU’s temporary license will expire for this specific function of Turnitin due to its extremely limited success and negative track-record. Continue reading Changes to Turnitin AI Detection Tool at SMU
