Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT: Home
What is Artificial Intelligence?
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to the development of computer systems that can perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such perception, reasoning, learning, decision-making, and natural processing. AI systems use machine learning algorithms to learn from large amounts of data and improve their performance over time." -- ChatGPT
Where is AI being used today?
According to SAS Institute ("Statistical Analysis System"), AI is used in multiple disciplines and industries:
- Healthcare - "AI applications can provide personalized medicine and X-ray readings. Personal health care assistants can act as life coaches, remind you to take your pills, exercise or eat healthier."
- Retail - "AI provides virtual shopping capabilities that offer personalized recommendations and discuss purchase options with the consumer. Stock management and site layout technologies will also be improved with AI."
- Manufacturing - "AI can analyze factory IoT ("Internet of Things") data as it streams from connected equipment to forecast expected load and demand using recurrent networks, a specific type of deep learning network used with sequence data.
- Banking - "AI enhances the speed, precision and effectiveness of human efforts. In financial institutions, AI techniques can be used to identify which transactions are likely to be fraudulent, adopt fast and accurate credit scoring, as well as automate manually intense data management tasks."
Applications of AI
Google Cloud highlights a number of applications and use cases for artificial intelligence:
- Speech Recognition - Automatically convert spoken work into written text
- Image Recognition - Identify and categorize various aspects of an image
- Translation - Translate written or spoken word from one language into another
- Predictive Modeling - Mine data to forecast specific outcomes with high degrees of granularity
- Data Analytics - Find patterns and relationships in data for business intelligence
- Cybersecurity - Autonomously scan networks for cyber attacks and threats
LLM Services
ChatGPT--free "research preview"
- Based on Generative Pre-Trained Transformer GPT-3.5
- Does not connect to internet
- Trained through 2021
- Frequently "hallucinates" facts
- By default, uses conversations for training, so not appropriate for sensitive information
Bing Search API: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/llm
Author Information
This guide is currently maintained by Debra Kolah dkolah@rice.eduguide
It was created as a collaboration between Catherine Chen '23 and Raiya Myren '23 in the Spring of 2023.