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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Information Literacy: Explore Different Types of AI

Learn about how AI works and how to spot common errors AI tools tend to make. You'll also learn fact-checking and critical thinking strategies for AI, how to cite AI in an academic paper, and how to learn more in-depth about AI tools and issues.

Explore Different Types of AI

Explore different types of AI

Introduction

While some AI-based tools might come to your mind right away, there are a lot of different tools out there with a lot of different uses. As you evaluate how to use these tools responsibly in your academic work, it is useful to keep the breadth of potential uses in mind. You or your teacher might want to use one kind of tool for a certain situation but not others. Click through the sections below to explore some potential applications of AI. Please note that this list is not comprehensive or an endorsement of any particular tool used in the examples.

Text and Code

Some tools will give you writing or paraphrasing suggestions (e.g. Grammarly, QuillBot), and other tools will generate new text or code based on a prompt from you (e.g. Bing AI, Claude, ChatGPT, Google's Bard).

Text and Code Examples

Grammarly

Grammarly

Bing Chat

Bing Chat

Quillbot

Quillbot

Images

Some tools will generate unique images for you, based on a text prompt (e.g. DALL-E, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney).

Image Examples

"Child's crayon drawing of the Space Needle in Seattle" (Bing Image Creator)

"The Space Needle in Seattle in the style of a realistic photograph" (Bing Image Creator)

"The Space Needle in Seattle in the style of Keith Haring" (Bing Image Creator)

Illustration of teddy bears shopping for groceries depicted in the traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e style (DALL E 3 in ChatGPT)

"Illustration of teddy bears shopping for groceries depicted in the traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e style" (DALL E 3 in ChatGPT)

Illustration of teddy bears shopping for groceries in Ancient Egypt (DALL E 3 in ChatGPT)

"Illustration of teddy bears shopping for groceries in Ancient Egypt" (DALL E 3 in ChatGPT)

Video and Audio

Some tools will use written text to generate spoken language or to create talking video avatars (e.g. Synthesia, PlayHT).

Video and Audio Examples

Synthesia

Synthesia

PlayHT

PlayHT

Research

Some tools will help you find research articles or links (e.g. Microsoft Copilot on Bing, Elicit). The full transcript of the chat on Copilot (shown below) is here: Resources on AI and Information Literacy for high school students

Research Examples

Microsoft Copilot on Bing - Initial prompt and response

Microsoft Copilot on Bing - Initial prompt and response

Research question submitted to Elicit

Research question submitted to Elicit

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