Generative AI Tools
This is an AI Resources Hub, a dedicated platform designed to empower faculty with the latest tools, research, and best practices in artificial intelligence. Whether you're looking to integrate AI into your curriculum, advance your research, or stay updated on the latest developments in the field, our comprehensive resource list has you covered. Explore cutting-edge software, insightful publications, and valuable training materials curated to support your academic and professional growth in the ever-evolving world of AI.
"Using AI has really helped my students improve their writing. They’re developing stronger arguments, making fewer grammatical and structural mistakes, and earning better grades. It’s particularly helpful for second language learners or students who might otherwise struggle with writing." - Dr. Noah Zerbe, Cal Poly Humboldt Department of Politics
Resources
Resources
Guides and resources to better understand AI
AI and ChatGPT Resources for Higher Education
Alchemy list of resources shared during their recent webinars on ChatGPT and AI in higher education.
CSU Webinar Series: Teaching and Thinking with A.I.
Facilitated by José Antonio Bowen, webinars explore:
- Introduction to Teaching and Thinking with A.I.
- AI Literacy & Prompt Engineering
- AI Grading, Detection and Policies
- AI Assignments and Assessments
Academic Applications of AI (AAAI) Micro-Credential
San Diego State University’s Academic Applications of AI (AAAI) Micro-Credential is available to the CSU community and prepares you to apply generative AI (gAI) technology efficiently, effectively, and ethically to level up learning in the classes you teach. Topics include; how gAI works, ethics & responsible use, what AI can do, finding apps, prompt engineering activities and more!
The AI Pedagogy Project
A collection of resources for educators curious about how AI affects their students and their syllabi.
How to Think About Generative AI in Your Teaching
University of Chicago teaching resource.
Scotty Breaks it Down
A robust starter kit for anyone looking to integrate generative AI in their instruction.
AI Detection Tools
AI Detection Tools
Be aware that AI detection tools, while useful, are not infallible. They do not provide 100% accuracy in identifying AI-generated text. The effectiveness of these tools can vary significantly depending on the specific software used and the subscription level purchased. It's crucial for educators to understand that these tools are designed to flag suspicious content for further review rather than directly accuse students of cheating. Concerns remain regarding the potential for false positives and the ethical implications of relying solely on automated detection without human oversight and contextual understanding.
For more information see The Pedagogical Dangers of AI Detectors for the Teaching of Writing by Jacob Hubbard - San Diego State University
Citing AI Sources
Citing AI Sources
As the use of AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini become more prevalent in research and writing, it is essential to properly cite these sources. Failing to acknowledge AI as a source could be considered academic dishonesty or plagiarism, even if the AI-generated text is paraphrased. Citing AI sources appropriately not only gives credit where it is due, but also allows readers to evaluate the reliability and context of the information provided.
Anthropic. (2024). Claude.ai (Claude 3 Haiku) [Large Language Model]. https://www.anthropic.com/claude
Conversational AI Models
Conversational AI Models
Conversational AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can simulate human conversation. It is made possible by natural language processing (NLP), a field of AI that allows computers to understand and process human language and Google's foundation models that power new generative AI capabilities. These tools answer questions, write content, summarize information and enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language.
ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer)
ChatGPT is a chatbot and virtual assistant developed by OpenAI. It uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to in response to prompts.
Claude
Claude is Anthropic's chatbot. It too uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to answer prompts and analyze some document types.
Copilot with Bing
Copilot with Bing is Microsoft’s AI chatbot integrated in Bing search, and runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 model.
Gemini
Gemini, formally known as Bard, is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Google and based on the large language model (LLM) of the same name.
GPT-4
GPT-4 is a version of OpenAI’s language model systems. It is a large multimodal model, accepting text and image inputs and emitting text outputs.
GPT-4 Omni
GPT-4o is a multilingual, multimodal generative pre-trained transformer designed by OpenAI. It can process and generate text, images and audio.
Latimer
Latimer is a large language model trained with diverse histories & inclusive voices that emphasizes deep inclusion, empathetic engagement and transparent learning.
Perplexity
Perplexity AI is an AI chatbot-powered research and conversational search engine that answers queries using natural language predictive text. Its responses include citation references.
AI Research Assistance
AI Research Assistance
This category of genAI tools can assist with research / reading related tasks. These tools can summarize articles, and permit conversational queries within uploaded files.
Consensus
Consensus is a search engine that uses AI to find insights in research papers. Its responses include citation references.
Elicit.com
Analyze research papers using and automate time-consuming research tasks like literature reviews, summarizing papers, and extracting data.Its responses include citation references.
Fontjoy
Fontjoy helps designers choose the best font combinations. Mix and match different fonts for the perfect pairing.
goblin.tools
goblin.tools is a collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult.
Julius
Julius can answer questions about data, perform analysis, and generate visualizations from uploaded files. It can also provide the needed python code to complete these tasks.
Khanmigo
Khanmigo is an AI-powered personal tutor and teaching assistant from trusted education nonprofit Khan Academy.
Khroma
Khroma uses AI to learn which colors you like and creates limitless palettes for you to discover, search, and save.
Mindgrasp
Mindgrasp instantly creates accurate notes, summaries, flashcards, quizzes, and answers questions from any Document, PDF, YouTube Video, Zoom Meeting, Webinar Recording, Podcast and much more!
Nurovant
Nurovant is an AI-powered learning companion designed to revolutionize digital education. It captures, analyzes, and facilitates understanding of lecture content, transforming dense information into manageable content for enhanced learning efficiency.
RefWorks
RefWorks is an easy-to-teach, learn, and use reference management service that simplifies research workflow. It enables effortless collection, organization and collaboration.
Research Rabbit
Understands what you’re researching and gives you recommendations for related articles, personalized digests, and visualizations of networks of papers and co-authorships.
Scholarcy
AI-powered article summarizer.
SciSpace (Typset.io)
SciSpace is an AI-powered tool to help you understand research papers better. It can explain and elaborate most academic texts in simple words.
TurboLearn
Instant notes, flashcards, quizzes, and more. Upload any audio, video, website, or PDF and get beautifully formatted notes!
Image Generation
Image Generation
Image generation tools generate and can edit images from text-based prompts.
Adobe Firefly
Use simple text prompts to create the high quality output images. Make all-new content from reference images.
Bing Image Creator
Image Creator uses OpenAI’s DALL·E 3 to generate AI images based on your text.
DALL-E 3
DALL-E 3 is the latest version of OpenAI’s text-to-image system that more accurately adheres to the details of the prompt (for ChatGPT Plus users).
Gamma
Gamma AI is a platform that has a set of features that enable the creation of presentations, documents, PowerPoint and web pages. Its AI-powered capabilities simplify the content creation process and enhance the quality and engagement of the output
Graph Maker
Graphmaker.ai is an AI-powered graph maker that allows users to create professional charts in seconds. The tool can create custom bar charts, scatter plots, pie charts, histograms, and line charts.
Ideogram
Text-to-image generator that excels in text rendering for images.
Midjourney
A text-to-image AI where your imagination is the only limit.
Stable Diffusion
Stable Diffusion is an AI art generator that enables users to create unique imagery from short text descriptions, also known as prompts.
Video Generation
Video Generation
This category of tools generates videos from text-based prompts.
Gen-1 Runway
Gen-1 Runway uses images and text prompts to generate videos.
InVideo
Generates video, voiceovers, and scripts to help accelerate creative work.
Synthesia
Synthesia is a tool that allows you to turn text into video with AI generated speakers and voices.
Audio Generation
Audio Generation
Suno AI
Suno is a generative artificial intelligence music creation program designed to generate realistic songs that combine vocals and instrumentation, or are purely instrumental.
Udio
Generative artificial intelligence model that produces music based on simple text prompts. It can generate vocals and instrumentation.
Programming and Coding
Programming and Coding
These tools can be used to generate computer code in a range of programming languages using text-based prompts and descriptions.
CodeWhisperer
CodeWhisperer is an AI coding companion from Amazon that can generate code suggestions based on your comments and existing code.
GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that translates natural human language into programming code.
Hugging Face
Hugging Face develops computation tools for building applications using machine learning. It is most notable for its transformers library built for natural language processing applications and its platform that allows users to share machine learning models and datasets and showcase their work.
Jupyter AI
Integrates AI chat into Jupyter Notebooks to assist with writing and proofing code.
Costs
Costs
AI tools usually provide a range of services based on subscription level, from free to freemium to monthly/annual billing.