UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State University Libraries has launched a Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tutorial series, designed to help demystify the technology behind popular tools like ChatGPT.
The four virtual tutorials provide an accessible introduction to AI, covering its historical development, key concepts in machine learning and deep learning, and the workings of neural networks. The tutorials aim to enhance our understanding of AI's capabilities and limitations, fostering informed discussions and use of generative AI within the university community.
Instructors are encouraged to share both the tutorials and the guide with their students via Canvas or via the links provided below:
- The technology behind ChatGPT — Understand the basics of how the technology works, how it can be useful, and gain an understanding of some ethical debates.
- How does ChatGPT aim to prevent harmful use? — Explore terms such as guardrails, types of bias, and "hallucination" and learn how to make hallucination less likely.
- What is generative AI? — Generative AI is very different from discriminative AI. How to tell the difference and why that's important.
- Using ChatGPT effectively — Learn how to use ChatGPT and other generative AI tools effectively for academic work.
The library guide titled Generative AI offers resources to various artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and how they generate and predict new content.
This Generative AI tutorial series was adapted under a creative commons license from the University of Arizona Libraries. For more information about the Generative AI tutorial series, contact Library Learning Services at ul-instruct@psu.edu.