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This newsletter covers the latest in AI news, tools, and learning resources. Highlights include DeepSeek’s global impact, the new ai.txt permission tool, and educational resources from Georgetown and Oxford. Upcoming events focus on AI in education, including workshops and the Day of AI. New tools like DeepSeek-V3, Deepinfra, and Deepchat are also featured. Readers are invited to share their AI use cases and prompt examples to inspire innovation and support the AI community.
Student AI Listening Session
Free Appetizers and Drinks!
February 10th
6-7pm Student Union North Ballroom
7:30pm for online students - Zoom link to join
We want to hear what students are thinking about Generative AI (like ChatGPT)!
This informal listening session is for students who are interested in how AI is changing the world and how it can impact your studies and future career.
This newsletter highlights recent advancements and initiatives in artificial intelligence (AI) within academia and industry. Key stories include Google’s $1 million donation to the University of Illinois Chicago to train undergraduates in AI, and the University of Michigan’s development of proprietary generative AI tools. Articles explore AI’s impact on workers, creative effectiveness, and the evolving role of AI in higher education. A featured teaching resource, Teaching with AI by Jose Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson, provides insights into integrating AI into classrooms. Additionally, the newsletter covers AI initiatives at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and promotes upcoming AI events, such as a webinar on AI’s role in commencement and alumni engagement.
Generating Documents with GenAI
Generative AI can assist in creating a wide range of documents, from professional reports and essays to technical guides and creative scripts. Knowing the types of documents you can create and how to prompt for them ensures optimal results.
AI Prompt Writing
As a language model trained on a vast amount of text data, Generative AI models, like ChatGPT, can provide high-quality and relevant content suggestions for your website. It can assist in creating engaging article posts, program descriptions, and marketing copy, as well as improve the overall readability and coherence of your website's content. With its natural language processing capabilities, ChatGPT can also help in generating content for social media, to help further promote and drive traffic to the website.
Prompt for Feedback
Generative AI (GenAI) is a powerful tool for generating creative content, solving problems, and refining your ideas. One of its most valuable uses is providing detailed, actionable feedback. This webpage will guide you on how to prompt GenAI models effectively to obtain high-quality feedback and improve your overall results.
Why Ask for Feedback?
Feedback from GenAI can help you:
Don’t miss the Generative AI and Education: The New Hybrid webinar on October 30, 2024, featuring Dr. Mairéad Pratschke from the University of Manchester, exploring how educators and AI can collaborate to design adaptive, personalized learning. You can also revisit insights from the Ai4 2024 Conference, now available on their video portal. This issue also shares thought-provoking reads on AI’s impact in academia and digital pedagogy, plus practical tools like AI Recruiter, DALL·E and Stable Diffusion prompt books, and tutorials to support innovation in teaching and research.
GenAI Video Tools
Using the Stable Video tool, the header video was created using the following prompt:
shot from a drone, dust storm in a field in the midwest
This issue spotlights how AI is reshaping education, careers, and research. Learn about the cultural and academic impacts of AI in higher ed, explore new research tools like Consensus, Elicit, and ChatPDF, and see how GenAI is influencing workforce readiness. We also share the 2024 UIS AI Steering Committee Report, plus upcoming events, career resources, and AI tools to try.