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Aalto AI Assistant (former Aalto GPT)
Whether you are a teacher, researcher, or member of the administrative staff, the Aalto AI Assistant, our new artificial intelligence tool, is designed to assist you in your daily tasks.
Aalto AI Assistant is a chat-based tool linked to the same language model as ChatGPT. As with all language models, the AI Assistant should be regarded as a supportive tool that might make mistakes. It can be utilized for translations, text refinement, content generation, brainstorming, and more. Seek quick answers, gather research insights, enhance your texts, and streamline administrative tasks to save time.
Aalto AI Assistant is an official collaboration tool of Aalto University, initially available to Aalto personnel and scheduled to be accessible to students in autumn 2024.
Aalto AI Assistant is a chat-based tool linked to the same language model as ChatGPT. As with all language models, the AI Assistant should be regarded as a supportive tool that might make mistakes. It can be utilized for translations, text refinement, content generation, brainstorming, and more. Seek quick answers, gather research insights, enhance your texts, and streamline administrative tasks to save time.
Aalto AI Assistant is an official collaboration tool of Aalto University, initially available to Aalto personnel and scheduled to be accessible to students in autumn 2024.
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Get to know Aalto AI Assistant
How to use Aalto AI Assistant
- Working remotely? Turn on VPN
- Visit ai.aalto.fi
- Choose “login”, in the top-right corner
As Aalto personnel member you have access to use AI Assistant. The intention is to provide students with access in the fall of 2024.
Please follow discussions and latest news in Daily AI community in Aalto Social.
Basic elements of the user interface
The buttons and functions of the Aalto AI Assistant are intentionally designed to be similar to those of the ChatGPT version.
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Begin the discussion in your preferred language.
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Review the response and copy it if necessary.
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…and continue the discussion to improve the answer
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Change the language models (and later data) for more accurate answers, for longer inputs and AI's answers.
- Advanced settings allow you to modify the language model's parameters, such as the temperature, which alters the model's randomness..
- Cost Counter: Aalto will pay the costs for you, but please follow your costs, keep it under 30 euros/month. GPT 4 is 20 times more expensive than GPT 3.5.
Top menu in Aalto AI Assistant
- Tips-link: For handy use of Aalto AI Assistant, hints for prompt engineering, typical use cases etc.
- About-link: The official service page in Aalto.fi. Background, role, roadmap
- Feedback-link: Give anonymous feedback. Bugs, questions, improvement ideas '
Change the language model
Language models are the intelligence behind chat-based AI tools. They make the discussion feel like there was human chatting with you. ChatGPT and Aalto AI Assistant both rely on OpenAI’s GPT (general pre-trained transformation) language models.
1. Change the language model, in the bottom-left corner
2. Choose a language model to chat with, by your needs:
GPT 3.5 is Aalto’s default language model. It is the most popular language models in the world. It is fast and inexpensive. Use it in your daily prompting.
GPT 4 is meant for more advanced tasks, like coding. It is more trained and therefore accurate language model. It is also 20 times more expensive and slower while responding. Use it when you know you need it.
GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 for long documents let you add 3-5 times longer queries and also give you much longer answers.
Allow longer questions and answers, by choosing the Long Document language models
The standard language model GPT 3.5 or GPT 4 does not support long combinations of questions and answers. Select the long document language models at the bottom to enable both longer questions and more detailed answers. The length is actually measured in tokens, however, below is a rough estimate in words on document pages.
What kind of content to use in AI Assistant
You can use public, internal and confidential data while chatting Aalto AI Assistant. Secret content is not allowed.
If you wish you to process personal data a DPIA might be needed for your use case. Remember also other instructions for processing personal data: Data protection | Aalto University
Are you allowed to copy-paste text with personal data into Aalto AI Assistant?
Step 1 - Three alternative scenarios while processing personal data
Begin by detailing the types of personal data, the potential for text anonymization, and the methods of content processing, as well as the purposes for which the content is utilized.
Text (in emails, documents or meeting transcriptions) with personal data must be either anonymized or you do the following:
Step 2 - Detailing the use of personal data
Briefly. Scenarios A and C are easy and quick to outline. B takes more time.
A. The low-risk data, like names, addresses, with publicly available content is usually less risky and therefore this kind of content can be copied (e.g. from email) to Aalto AI Assistant.
B. The methods of processing and the purposes for which personal data are used, affect the necessity for a Data Protection Impact Assessment. In DPIA process, you will identify and minimize the data protection risks, with help from Aalto LEGAL department.
C. Content with special categories of personal data, like political or ethnic details, is not possible to copy-paste and process in Aalto AI Assistant, not at the moment.
If you wish you to process personal data a DPIA might be needed for your use case. Remember also other instructions for processing personal data.
TOP 10 - Frequently asked questions
We want to offer you an AI assistant, for the following goals and benefits: time saving, quick access and extraction to valuable insights and facts, reducing manual workload – in general, data-driven work.
Aalto AI Assistant is offered first for Aalto personnel, later perhaps also for the students, with GPT 4 limitations.
ai.aalto.fi
But remember... If working from home., remember to use VPN first
Easiest way to join the discussions for development is to join Daily AI community in Aalto Social.
Yes, Aalto AI Assistant does have GPT 4, and there are no costs for the users. But please follow your costs, keep it under 30 euros/month. GPT 4 is 20 times more expensive than GPT 3.5
“Please shorten this <text> and translate it to language x”
“How to say <your text> in language x?”
“Help with Excel please, how to ..?”
“I am having lecture on <a topic>, please create question-answer pairs to …”
“Instead of googling, I’d need background information about <topic>, but from <choice> point of view”
No, it can not, yet. It will later on.
No, it can not, yet. It may some day.
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Aalto AI Assistant is built on Azure OpenAI API services
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Azure OpenAI data is in EU area
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Although you log in with your Aalto account, your input is not stored anywhere
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Your prompts (inputs) and completions (outputs), your embeddings, and your training data:
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are NOT available to other customers
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are NOT available to OpenAI
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are NOT available to Aalto
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are NOT used to improve OpenAI models
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are NOT used to improve any Microsoft or 3rd party products or services
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are NOT used for automatically improving Azure OpenAI models for your use in your resource (The models are stateless, unless you explicitly fine-tune models with your training data)
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Your fine-tuned Azure OpenAI models are available exclusively for your use
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The Azure OpenAI Service is fully controlled by Microsoft; Microsoft hosts the OpenAI models in Microsoft’s Azure environment
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- Unlike ChatGPT, in Aalto AI Assistant you can log in with your Aalto account.
- AI Assistant is much more secure.
- ChatGPT is a public online service that you can use with your private non-aalto account. Aalto AI Assistant is an internal Aalto service, built by Aalto IT Services and School of Science/RSE service.
- Aalto AI Assistant is built via Azure OpenAI service.
- Aalto AI Assistant is built on our user interface, we can administrate the settings, but also fine-tune it to meet academic needs.
No. Do not assume that the answer given by any language models is accurate or reliable. Confirm all facts from reliable sources. Language models sometimes generate false information.
Aalto AI Assistant schedule
This kind of service needs some piloting to cover various different user groups, to get feedback, and to learn about the costs and support needs. Here are the phases in which piloting has been done and will be executed:
| When? | Who? | |
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| Phase 1 | Summer 2023 | Legal + Developing team |
| Phase 2 | End of September 2023 | IT services, PMT and many management teams, and many selected persons from various functions and teams |
| Phase 3 | Between October 2023 and end of 2023 | Up to 500-600 users |
| Phase 4 | March - End fo May 2024 | All Aalto personnel |
| Phase 5 | June - September 2024 | Enable AI Assistant for students and courses, with GPT 3.5. First for testing teams, later for all students. |
What's next in Aalto AI Assistant
- The roadmap of Aalto's internal AI services
- Give feedback and request for a new feature
See also
FAQ - Productised AI and Azure OpenAI
Frequently asked questions and their answers for productised AI and Azure OpenAI
Responsible use of Artificial Intelligence in the research process
How to ensure research integrity and responsible conduct of research when using AI? How should we interpret the concepts such as reproducibility; bearing responsibility on the correctness of the results presented; respecting the authorship of others, and data protection?
Tips for teachers on using artificial intelligence in teaching
Tips how to use AI in teaching
Tips for using artificial intelligence for students
Tips for using artificial intelligence in learning
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