Artificial Intelligence (AI): Use AI Tools Effectively

Pick an AI Tool

AI tools are being developed and changing very quickly! This guide only mentions a few; use the directory link below to explore more. Remember: Make sure your professor allows AI before using it for an assignment. 

• AI Tools Directory The AI Tools Directory blog is a comprehensive collection of curated artificial intelligence software tools that cater to the needs of small business owners, bloggers, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, marketers, writers, and researchers.

Text Generation:

• ChatGPT AI language model ChatGPT is able to answer your questions, provide insightful information, and engage in witty banter.

• Grammarly Automated tool to eliminate grammatical errors & other writing issues. Includes an AI Writing Assistant.

Image, Audio, & Video Generation:

• Adobe Firefly Adobe Firefly offers a versatile, creator-focused Generative AI for content creation and editing across various mediums. Generate custom vectors, brushes, and textures with just a few words or a sketch

• Midjourney

• Canva: Magic Studio

AI text detection tools frequently provide false positives, and may not be reliable. 

• Researchers Develop and Test AI Text-Detector Tools 

Writing AI Prompts

Getting an AI model to provide helpful responses is a skill! It involves writing prompts that tell the AI what to do. More advanced use of prompts is a skill called "prompt engineering," which has already started to show up in job postings. Learning how to interact with AI will help you to get better responses. 

• Make sure you understand the tool that you are using and use a prompt that is appropriate for what it can do. Some may not be set up to read large paragraphs of text, perform mathematical calculations, etc. 
• Make sure that you are providing "clean" data before prompting the AI tool to analyze it
• Be sure to review and evaluate the accuracy of any responses that you get from AI

Suggested Resources: 

• Using ChatGPT Effectively Tutorial from University of Arizona Libraries

• Prompting With ChatGPT Tutorial for prompting with ChatGPT.

• Prompt Engineering: How to talk to the AIs. The Generative AI revolution A video on Prompt Engineering on LinkedIn