Generative AI Tools - UGS 302: Autism and Neurodiversity - Prof. Tackett - LibGuides at University of Texas at Austin

Large Language Models (LLMs)

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/

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.