From Voice Assistants to Algorithms, the UMD Community Uses AI in Unique Ways

We think of artificial intelligence as many different things. It’s the algorithms that determine what’s in our social media feed. It’s what recommends us movies on Netflix or music on Spotify. It’s our voice assistants, such as Alexa and Siri. And most recently, it’s associated with all-encompassing tools, such as ChatGPT, Baird, DALL-E and more.

“An AI system is basically any sort of automated system whose behavior is at least in part dictated by data that it has been … exposed to in some way,” said Hal Daumé III, a computer science professor at the University of Maryland.

With the rise of artificial intelligence tools, college communities have needed to explore what this technology means for curriculums and grading. While these tools provide some challenges for plagiarism detection in classrooms, they also provide aid for students in their everyday lives.

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