Tools

ChatGPT is a service by OpenAI, and in it’s own words: ChatGPT is an AI-based conversational agent developed by OpenAI. It belongs to the family of Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) models, specifically GPT-3.5 in its latest version. ChatGPT is designed to engage in natural language conversations with users, offering responses and generating text based on the input it receives. Using a vast amount of text data from the internet, ChatGPT has been trained to understand and generate human-like text across a wide range of topics and contexts. It can provide information, answer questions, hold conversations, and even generate creative content like stories or poems. ...

ChatTutor is a DTU-based startup which enable students to get help from an AI-tutor or from teaching assistant (TA). Teachers upload the course material on ChatTutor (slides, notes, exercises) and ChatTutor will then base it’s answers on the course material and refer students to the relevant sections. Questions ChatTutor cannot answer can be escelated to teaching assistents, and the answers provided by ChatTutor will then be available to the entire class. This allows for a better utilization of our existing TA resources. ...

DTU gives access for students and employees to a somewhat similar chat tool, based on a large language model, from Microsoft, which you can find at https://copilot.microsoft.com/. It is sometimes referred to as “Copilot for the web”. The version made available to DTU students and employees is based on ChatGPT4 Turbo (as of April 2024), and offers a protected model that keeps all searches and answers within DTU’s cloud solutions, so that they will not be used to train the AI model. ...