CURRENT NOTES ON AI USE

• Artificial Intelligence (AI): is a computer-based interactive system that can respond to questions and requests written, typed, spoken and through images, sound, and video. AIs can SOUND very human. All AIs are imperfect. Although not often, they can make mistakes and give wrong answers.  On occasion, they go completely off the rails – these are called “hallucinations.”  NOTE: Always double-check critical information – use multiple AIs or ask questions of people.

• Some AIs will censor language, images, video, and audio for

  example, limit violence, explicit content, specific people

  , and others.

• Not all AIs are current with the internet.  If unsure, ask

  the AI for the date of the last update.

• Most AIs have a free version, but you need an account.

  A Google account is almost universally usable and most straightforward.

• You can delete any chats one by one or all, usually in the settings.

• Tell the AI what level of technical you want – PhD, 10th grade, young child.

  “Please provide your response at a high school education level.” 

  GLOSSARY

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a computer-based interactive system that can respond to questions and requests by generating responses to human requests using a large set of information (data) and rules (algorithms). AIs are generally more knowledgeable than most humans and have some apparent ability to reason and be creative. The Input and Output forms currently support various file types of audio, images, text, video, and other computer files.

   Chat: The written or other dialog with an AI to solve problems, answer questions, and develop multimedia out of multiple forms – audio, images, videos, programs, etc.

  Large Language Model: An AI trained on massive amounts of text data to learn patterns, grammar, context, and even world knowledge encoded in language.

   Prompt: The “what and how” to ask the AI questions.  This is critical to get the best-quality response.  Providing context is very helpful.  For example, the Prompt: “Explain what happens to an apple when it turns brown after cutting it open. Provide the response at a 4th-grade level”.  Or… Prompt: “Create a photo-realistic image of an apple on a table… or “Create an image with a 50s cartoon look of cars cruising down Main Street.” 

  Multimodal: input or output can be files, audio, images, text, other computers, or video.