UDLib/SEARCH
A state-funded collaboration between the Delaware Department of Education and the University of Delaware Library providing online magazines, journals, encyclopedias and training for all Delaware K-12 public schools
A state-funded collaboration between the Delaware Department of Education and the University of Delaware Library providing online magazines, journals, encyclopedias and training for all Delaware K-12 public schools
Delaware public school students should contact their classroom teacher or school librarian to obtain the UDLib/SEARCH username and password to access the UDLib/SEARCH resources in this guide.
Large Language Models (LLMs) use natural language to create a model that produces its own supervised machine learning. The largest types of these models are generative, meaning they use the knowledge base that is fed to them to produce new information or data like images, text, or audio.
The tools that we see today - like ChatGPT, Gemini, or CoPilot (to just name a few) - are using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). GenAI uses patterns from the underlying data to produce new information or predictions based on prompts that are input into the tool.
Almost every AI tool requires you to create an account in order to use the tool for free. There are paid tiers for each tool, where you can access newer models or additional tools (like image generation).
Suggested Readings:
Elementary School
Middle / High School
GenAI Tools rely on you to tell the tool what it should produce. If you do not effectively prompt the tool, it can return inaccurate, incomplete, or made-up information.
You can either ask the GenAI tool a question to receive information about a topic or help to brainstorm terminology to use in a research project. For example:
You can also command the GenAI tool to perform a task. For example:
You might have to continually ask the GenAI tool to refine or change the parameters of its answer.
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