Below we have gathered frequently asked questions and their answers on productised AI and Azure OpenAI.
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Aalto University has its own guidelines and policies available for you:
ChatGPT is a generative AI tool developed by OpenAI that can generate text and answer various questions.
GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 differ in performance, size increase and quality of the text they generate. GPT 4 responses are slower and more expensive to produce. GPT 4 can code better, among other things.
The public ChatGPT service is free to use, but the Plus service costs about 20 euros per month, the fee goes to a company called OpenAI.
Yes, there are several alternative tools to ChatGPT. Some of the popular ones include:
Bing.com with ChatGPT: It crawls through the internet to find the information it needs to respond to your prompts.
Google Bard: Google Bard is Google’s response to ChatGPT.
ChatGPT and ChatGPT Plus differ in pricing and features available. The Plus service costs about 20 euros per month, the university does not reimburse this cost.
OpenAI uses your data in connection with the use of ChatGPT to improve the service. Read more from their privacy policy.
Using public ChatGPT can involve risks, such as generating incorrect or misleading information. You may also inadvertently use nonpublic data to compromise privacy or security – and break the law.
You can use ChatGPT as part of your work or studies, for example, to create content, generate ideas, or get answers to questions. As long as you only use public information, not unpublished research materials or student responses, for example.
No it does not, but you can use ChatGPT along Aalto's instructions, just remember to only use public information. For example, no personal data, not students' or your research data.
Our university's own Aalto GPT is under development and in pilot use.
Yes, read more here: https://www.aalto.fi/system/files/2023-05/How%20to%20use%20ChatGPT.pdf
Your costs will not be refunded. Instead, you can start using Aalto's own GPT tool, see the next question.
Aalto University has its own Aalto GPT in pilot use. Soon to be opened for all Aalto personnel.
Public information is open to everyone, for exampe, information on Aalto's website that is open for everyone.
You can use public data when chatting with public AI programs like ChatGPT.
However, you may not use the following:
Learn more on the classification of information: Classification of information
Your own unpublished research data is classified as confidential or secret information.
Aalto GPT is Aalto University's own productive AI tool created in collaboration between Aalto IT Services and School of Science. It works quite similarly to ChatGPT and will be released soon for all Aalto personnel.
Yes you can. The Finnish Elements of AI course launched in 2018 has passed the one million participant mark and established itself as one of the most popular online courses in the world.
Bing Chat enables both ChatGPT-like conversation with OpenAI's artificial intelligence, that is, the language model and also the production of text directly into your own document open with a browser.
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