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.
Department URL
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.
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.
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.
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:
Upcoming AI Events
October 30, 2024: Generative AI and Education: The New Hybrid, Dr. Mairéad Pratschke,
Professor and Chair in Digital Education at University of Manchester, UK
Generative AI and Education: The New Hybrid Webinar
Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (Eastern Time)
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
Tap into the Power of AI
Explore the latest AI tools, resources, and insights to help you harness the power of artificial intelligence for innovation, productivity, and learning.
Have a new AI tool to add below? Email web@uis.edu to get it added to our resource lists below!