New! USask’s Enterprise GenAI
USask’s very own Generative AI solution for faculty and administrative staff goes live this week!
The Microsoft AI tool — currently named “Bing Chat” but being rebranded as “Copilot” — utilises GPT4 and Dall-E 3, the most up-to-date version of the text and image generating models developed by OpenAI. Some significant features to note of our enterprise license, especially in comparison to ChatGPT:
- Users are each permitted 200 independent chats per day, with 30 exchanges per chat. In addition to text conversations, you can prompt the chat directly to generate images and even drop images into the chat field with queries!
- For the best experience, use either Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome.
- Whether input (user prompt) or output (AI response), the tool does not retain any data to build its model and searches only material that is available publicly online. Additionally, Microsoft does not assert any intellectual property claims to inputs or outputs, limiting any concerns for using the tool to assist with research. As with any GenAI tool, data privacy practices should still be observed when working with student, employee, and organisation information.
- It’s easy to log in and get chatting! Your account is associated with your NSID. To access it, sign into your PAWS account and look for Bing Chat under Apps and Services > Learning and Technology. (Make sure to click the “star” icon to add it to your favourites list!)
- If you are on a university-managed device, you should automatically be logged into your NSID Microsoft account.
- If you are on a personal device, you can follow the link in PAWS or go to the tool’s site directly via this link: https://copilot.microsoft.com. In this case, you will need to sign into your Microsoft account manually using your USask credentials. Take care to ensure that you are in fact logged into your USask Microsoft account: you should be able to see a “Protected” symbol next to your user icon and a disclaimer above the chat field stating, “Your personal and company data are protected in this chat.”
For more information on how you can leverage Bing/Copilot for course, assessment, and lesson design, check out our new Blink of an AI series in the Winter 2024 term. And keep an eye out for other GenAI-related sessions on the GMC events page, as well as posts under the Generative AI category of our Educatus blog!
For assistance logging into the tool, contact IT Support. For anything related to teaching and learning with GenAI, reach out to the Gwenna Moss Centre.
By Rajiv Bhola, Educational Development Specialist (Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning)