Artificial Intelligence @ CSUDH

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Learn how students, faculty, and staff can leverage AI tools like ChatGPT Edu and Microsoft Copilot for academic, research, and daily use while ensuring privacy, security, and ethical engagement.

CSUDH offers the resources and training necessary for students, faculty, and staff to utilize AI in their academic, research, and daily endeavors, both creatively and ethically. These AI tools and services are included in CSUDH's existing license agreements or provided by funding from the CSU Chancellor’s Office.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Edu Agreement is tailored specifically for the California State University (CSU) system, providing advanced AI capabilities for all employees and students. It offers the ability to build custom GPTs for sharing within campus workspaces, as well as the needed privacy and data protection, and other enterprise security such as single sign-on (SSO), and SCIM integration.

Claude is an AI-powered chatbot trained by Anthropic using Constitutional AI to be safe, accurate, and secure. It can be used in developmental stages of research for brainstorming and data analysis. Claude is often used for tasks such as answering questions, summarizing content, generating text, and assisting with various forms of communication. It is named after Claude Shannon, the father of information theory.

Perplexity AI is an AI-powered search engine that provides direct, cited answers to user queries, combining web search capabilities with natural language processing. It is designed to offer more accurate and trustworthy search results by citing sources, making it different from traditional search engines like Google.

Key Features of Perplexity AI:

• AI-Powered Search: Uses language models to summarize and present relevant information.
• Citations & Sources: Provides references to original sources for credibility.
• Conversational Interface: Users can refine searches by asking follow-up questions.
• Web Browsing: It pulls the latest information from the internet rather than relying solely on pre-trained knowledge.

Microsoft Copilot provides access to advanced generative AI with text, voice, and image capabilities and is available to CSUDH students, faculty, and staff. CSUDH's Microsoft licensing includes Copilot commercial data protection. Commercial data protection ensures user and organizational data are protected.

Google Gemini is a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) assistant that uses machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to provide humanlike responses to text, image, and audio prompts. CSUDH’s Google Gemini licensing includes added data protection.

Zoom's AI Companion feature leverages AI to generate concise summaries of your meetings, saving you time and effort.

Note: Zoom AI Companion is not enabled for students at this time.

Adobe Firefly is available to CSUDH through its Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. Firefly provides generative AI features across Adobe's creative apps. With the Adobe Firefly web app, you can create AI-generated images based on your own prompts.

AI in Higher Education Resource Hub for CSUDH Students and Employees

We are excited to introduce the AI in Higher Education Resource Hub, an informational Canvas course designed to provide students, faculty, and staff with resources for learning about generative Artificial Intelligence (AI).

This hub is designed for those who are new to AI and want to learn more about it in an academic and non-academic setting.