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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Generative Text - Large Language Models (LLMs)

Uses: generates text, code and images.

Licensing: Proprietary, not licensed or endorsed by the college. 

Access: web, iOS, Android

Company: OpenAI

Cost/Upgrade Version:  Basic tier is free and no account is needed. See ChatGPTs website for further details. 

User Privacy:  OpenAI Privacy Policy (for non-European users) and OpenAI Privacy Policy (for EU)
Will collect personal information and provide information to partners, in addition to analysis of user behavior.

Model Training Set: Trained using the Common Crawl open dataset in addition to resources like Wikipedia, books, and news articles.

Website: https://copilot.microsoft.com/

Uses: generates text, code, and images using ChatGPT and DALL-E. Includes links to some web resources.

Licensing: Proprietary, not licensed or endorsed by the college. 

Access: website - log in with your UT Microsoft 365 account (@austin.utexas.edu) and then your EID to access the UT-Austin licensed version of CoPilot. 

Company: Microsoft

Cost/Upgade Vesion: Free through UT

User Privacy:  When using CoPilot licensed through UT, your prompts and responses are not retained by Microsoft or used to train AI models, and your information is encrypted.. It is not currently approved for use with confidential university data (e.g., FERPA, HIPAA, PCI, IRB).

Additional information: see the UT Microsoft 365 AI page.

Website: https://gemini.google.com/

Uses: Generates text, code and images. Includes links to some web sources.

Licensing: Proprietary, not licensed or endorsed by the college. 

Access:  Google Gemini website and through Google app integrations. Formerly known as Bard.

Company: Google

Cost/Upgrade: Basic tier is free but requires Google account. Does not work with @utexas Google accounts but does work with @gmail accounts. Upgraded version (Gemini Advanced) costs $19.99/month as of August 2024 and offers further integration within Google apps, 2 TB storage, priority access for new features, and other premium features.

Privacy:  Gemini Apps Privacy Hub; Uses location, past conversation data to provide responses. Will save and share data with other Google products if linked.

 

AI Literature Search, Synthesis and Visualization Tools

  • Consensus: this literature search, synthesis and extraction tool draws on citations and open access papers from semantic scholar. It discovers papers, summarizes and extracts data. Consensus also includes a "consensus meter" which will answer a yes/no research question with the percentage of found studies saying yes, no or possibly and integrates with Microsoft CoPilot.  A basic free account provides unlimited searches and some CoPilot integration, or you can upgrade to a paid account.
  • Elicit: this literature search, synthesis and extraction tool draws on citations and open access papers from semantic scholar, with a focus on “empirical research (e.g. randomized controlled trials in social sciences or biomedicine)" to discover papers, as well as summarize and extract data. A basic free account gives you unlimited search, unlimited summaries of 4 papers at once, and other features or you can upgrade to a paid account.
  • ResearchRabbit: dubbed “Spotify for papers,” this free tool draws on citations and open access papers from semantic scholar to create visualizations of connections between papers and scholars, as well as recommend and summarize papers.

AI Tools for Audio, Image and Video Generation

  • Stable Diffusion: Generates images, video and audio. Free and paid versions. Available to download and run locally, or use online through Stable Assistant. 
  • Midjourney: Generates images and video in Discord and on the Web. Requires a paid subscription.
  • Dall-e: text to image generator from OpenAI. Incorporated into Microsoft CoPilot.

AI Coding Tools

  • GitHub Copilot: generate and optimize code in many programming languages. Free and paid subscriptions available. Free for students.
  • Code Llama: generate and optimize code in many programming languages. Available for free.

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