Generative AI: For students

How to use generative AI to help with assignments.

This articles is about what ChatGPT is, how to use and not use it as a student, and how to set up an account for it.

Describes what ChatGPT is, how to fact check it, and how to use it to study.

Pros: Useful for brainstorming, drafting content, creating summaries, language learning, and generating ideas for academic and professional projects, editing grammar.
Cons: It can produce inaccurate or misleading information, especially on specialized topics, and its cutoff knowledge is October 2023.

This LLM is developed by Google.
Pros: Can get explanations of complex concepts and generate practice problems. It can help you to brainstorm ideas, generate outline, and help with grammar. There is no knowledge cutoff date as it is continuously updated.
Cons: Has a potential to be bias.

Pros: Copilot can offer structure, suggest ideas, and help with grammar and style. Can use it to give you practice tests, suggests effective study schedules, reminds students of deadlines, and helps prioritize tasks. Information is constantly being updated.
Cons: Can produce inaccurate or misleading information. Has the potential to provide bias information based on the data it was trained on.

Is a research and conversational search engine.
Pros: Can use filter it to search only academic articles. Gives links to sources.
Cons: Sometimes gives inaccurate information.

This article explains the various how to cite ChatGPT in APA format.

This article explains how to cite generative AI in the MLA format.

How to create prompts for ChatGPT to make it act as a tutor.

Seven steps to writing an effective ChatGPT prompt,

This will teach you the 5 "S" steps to creating an effective prompt when using ai.