Generative artificial intelligence opens exciting possibilities for the IU community. Its ability to create content, code, analyze data, and more can help you uncover discoveries and solve problems with speed and elegance. Learn more about the resources, guidance, and safeguards in development.
Generative AI can transform the way you work, learn, and create by collaborating with you to generate content, enhance productivity, and support learning and innovative teaching.
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Several generative AI tools are widely available for faculty, staff, and students. Learn more about these tools, including their core features, data classification approvals, and usage guidelines.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat with enterprise data protection is available at no cost for all users at IU over the age of 18. It is built into the Microsoft Edge browser and is available on the web. It is the recommended way to use generative AI within the IU environment and has been approved to interact with data classified up to and including University-Internal data.
The Microsoft 365 Copilot app is a set of AI-driven productivity tools deeply integrated with Microsoft 365 applications and services such as Teams, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and the rest of the Microsoft 365 suite. It interacts directly with documents in OneDrive and Teams storage spaces to which you have access. This is a paid service; the cost is $30/user/month, billed annually.
As part of IU's software license with Adobe, you have access to the Firefly web app and generative AI features inside apps like Photoshop and Illustrator as well as Adobe Stock.
Software developer teams at IU have a few options to integrate GenAI models into their projects, including cloud-based services like Azure OpenAI and on-premises solutions that leverage various open-source models.
Chat AIU is an AI-powered tool that utilizes generative AI and IU data to provide customizable chatbot experiences designed for university needs. Built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI, it prioritizes data privacy while providing reliable, context-aware responses through a user-friendly interface.
UITS Research Technologies will soon be piloting the Research API for LLMs (REALLMs) service, providing an API and web interface to the latest open Llama model and other open-source large language models (LLMs). These models will leverage on-premises systems operated by UITS at no cost to researchers. It will be initially offered as a pilot service for research use cases.
At IU, several generative AI tools have undergone review and are approved for use with IU institutional data. See information outlined previously on this page as well as this more detailed resource about the available GenAI tools at IU.
Many other generative AI tools are publicly available online (for example, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, among others), some with a cost associated with them. These tools are not approved for any institutional data at IU, even when data are anonymized. You should take these precautions when using AI tools at IU.
Using a GenAI tool not listed above with IU institutional data must be reviewed by university data stewards via the Generative AI Product Request Form.
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