In August, we launched our new website, smu.edu/aitraining, featuring various AI solutions for the campus community. While AI initiatives have been underway on campus for a while through the Coalition of the Willing, we were especially excited to announce our AI Staff initiatives to help our staff become more comfortable with this rapidly evolving and expanding discipline.
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At SMU, we believe that great things happen when passionate people can willingly explore new technologies together. Over the past year, I’m proud to say that SMU has made tremendous strides in our community understanding and applications of Generative AI in ways that serve our teaching, our research, and the everyday work we do to support students. Since last May’s launch of the SMU Generative AI Coalition of the Willing, many SMU faculty and staff have stepped forward—not because they were told to, but because they were curious, committed, and courageous. Continue reading Pioneering with Purpose: SMU’s Unique Generative AI Coalition of the Willing
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
The use of artificially intelligent chatbots has quickly proliferated over the past year or so. With ChatGPT and other platforms able to converse naturally and create somewhat accurate content with ease, it’s getting harder to detect what’s been written by an actual person and what’s been concocted by AI services. Turnitin has recognized this new frontier of writing and has recently implemented new features to help faculty separate the real from the robot. Continue reading Turnitin Provides New Functionality for AI Detection
