AI is a tool and can be used for various things. The most common ones are in an academic setting can include text generation, analysis of texts, grammar checks, and image generation. This guide will provide information on some of the types of AI that could assist you with your studies or your future career.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) - "Joseph Feigenbaum, defined it thus in 1983, 'If we can imagine an artifact that can collect, assemble, choose among, understand, perceive, and know, then we have an artificial intelligence'." (Illustrated Dictionary of Science)
Machine Learning - Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) focused on "creating systems that can automatically improve their ability to perform tasks such as classifying images, interpreting text, or finding patterns in data" (The Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology)
Generative AI - Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can produce content such as audio, text, code, video, images, and other data. Generative AI uses machine learning algorithms to create outputs based on a training data set. Specifically, generative AI models are fed vast quantities of existing content to train the models to produce new content. (Investopedia)
Large Language Model (LLM) - An AI tool defined as; "A large general-purpose language models that can be pre-trained and then fine-tuned for specific purposes. They are trained to solve common language problems, such as text classification, question answering, document summaries, and text generation." (Penn State) Common examples of LLM's include ChatGPT, CoPilot, Claude, and Perplexity.ai.
Text to image AI - An AI model that takes a written input and produces an image based on that input. Examples include DALL-E, Night Cafe, and Midjourney.