Website: https://copilot.microsoft.com/
Uses: generates text, code, and images using ChatGPT and DALL-E. Includes links to some web resources.
Licensing: Licensed by UT
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://chatgpt.com
Uses: generates text, code and images.
Licensing: Proprietary
Access: web, iOS, Android
Company: OpenAI
Cost/Upgrade Version: Basic tier is free and no account is needed. Upraded version is available for $20/month and requires a user account with OpenAI.
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://gemini.google.com/
Uses: Generates text, code and images. Includes links to some web sources.
Licensing: Proprietary; not licensed by UT
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.
Licensing: Proprietary; not licensed by UT
Privacy: Gemini Apps Privacy Hub; Uses location, past conversation data to provide responses. Will save and share data with other Google products if linked.
Website: https://llama.meta.com/ or https://meta.ai
Uses: generates text, code and images.
Access: Use it immediately through Meta AI or download Llama and deploy locally
Company: Meta
Cost/Upgrade: Free
Licensing: Llama is open with some restrictions (https://github.com/faceboksearch/llama/blob/main/LICENSE); not licensed by UT
Privacy: Meta Privacy Policy- Requires submission of name and email in order to download the model. Once downloaded, the model can then be run locally without sharing data.
Model Training Set: Trained with data sources similar to those of other LLMs, but only those with publicly available data that are “compatible with open sourcing”. See https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.13971.pdf for full details on training data and list of data sources.
A more exhaustive list of generative AI tools that may be of interest to university students and faculty is maintained by Ithaka S+R at https://sr.ithaka.org/our-work/generative-ai-product-tracker/
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