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Since October of 2022, the monthly Tech Tuesdays sessions have focused on Artificial Intelligence. Timing is everything. ChatGPT was publicly released in November of 2022, and the subsequent reverberations have been significant and ongoing.

Each Tech Tuesdays session occurs the last Tuesday of the month from 12-1PM (future sessions listed here). These are Flex events that can be attended on-campus in the Loop or remotely via Zoom. Each session is recorded (available to DePaul faculty and staff on request) or a dedicated video recording published to this website and YouTube.

DePaul Resources

  • AI in Teaching Symposiums: Videos and resources from previous symposiums. The use-cases are quick, simple, direct demonstrations that can be easily adopted in other courses at the university (or at other institutions).
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education: The Center for Teaching and Learning has a very helpful teaching guide.
  • The DePaul AI Institute: The mission of the DePaul AI institute is to capitalize on the expertise of DePaul faculty from across many colleges and programs to promote interdisciplinary research and educational programs centered around the promises and the challenges presented by AI.
  • Faculty Learning Community AI Activities: Activities created by members of the AI Teaching and Learning Collective, a 2024 Faculty Learning Community. Works are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0, and available for download and repurposing for non-commercial use, with attribution to their authors.

Handouts

Video recordings of the AI sessions are available to DePaul faculty and staff. Please get in touch if you want a link to the streamed video.

Certificate Program

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I teach a six-week certificate program (AI in Marketing) that may be of interest to you. This is taught in a Flex (attend in-person or remotely via Zoom) format. Topic covered include:

  • Introduction To Artificial Intelligence (AI) And Machine Learning (ML) In Marketing
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Marketing
  • Generative Imagery, Data Visualization, and Social Media
  • AI-Powered Marketing Automation
  • Data Governance, Privacy, And Ethics In AI Marketing

More information can be found here. You can register online here.

AI Resources

AI Institutes

  • Ada Lovelace Institute: An "independent research institute with a mission to ensure data and AI work for people and society."
  • Alan Turing Institute: UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. Founded in 2015. Largely funded by the UK government.
  • AlgorithmWatch: A non-profit research and advocacy organization that is committed to watch, unpack and analyze automated decision-making (ADM) systems and their impact on society.
  • Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research (DAIR): Independent, community-rooted AI research.
  • Global AI Ethics Consortium (GAIEC): Site hosted by TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology (Technical University of Munich) and the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (founded 2019). Publishes AI ethics learning modules here.
  • Montreal AI Ethics Institute: International nonprofit think tank. Founded by Abhishek Gupta in 2018. Publishes Substack newsletters at: brief.montrealethics.ai
  • The DePaul AI Institute: Capitalizes on the expertise of DePaul faculty from across many colleges and programs to promote interdisciplinary research and educational programs centered around the promises and the challenges presented by AI. Fosters partnerships with industry, government, and nonprofit organizations to address pressing societal challenges. Central hub for faculty and students to access internal and external resources, as well as educational and training materials related to AI.

Academic Policies and Use In Teaching

Academic Research

  • Elicit: AI research assistant.
  • Keenious: Academic search engine integrated into Microsoft Word or Google Docs
  • Litmaps: Literature review tool.
  • scite: "Brooklyn-based startup that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations."
  • Semantic Scholar: Uses AI to provide summaries for scholarly papers. Also offers Semantic Reader.

Applications

  • MindStudio: Online platform to create your own AI apps.

Audio

  • Adobe Podcast AI: Cleans up voice recordings, improves microphone settings, edit audio in web browser.

Coding

  • Amazon CodeWhisperer: Amazon's AI-powered coding assistant.
  • CoCalc: Web-based software that enables collaboration in research, teaching, and scientific publishin. Formerly called SageMathCloud.
  • Einblick: Converts natural language to Python.
  • FlutterFlow: App design and development tool.
  • GitHub Copilot: Cloud-based artificial intelligence tool that autocompletes computer code.
  • Korbit: AI-powered mentorship.

Data

Data Analysis and Visualization

  • Akkio: Data transformation and visualization no-code AI tool. Chat with live data and use generative insights.
  • Findly: Freemium tool (requires Google account for signup). Query databases in natural language. Works in Slack and integrates with Google Analytics, Facebook Ads, BigQuery, and databases.
  • Google Charts: Free (open source). Visualize interactive data on your website. Works on major browsers and platforms.
  • Graphy: Freemium tool (requires Google account for signup). Embed on website (free version is watermarked). Uses AI to provide basic analysis via charts. Can link to data via Chrome extension.
  • HiPlot (Meta): “Interactive visualization tool to help AI researchers discover correlations and patterns in high-dimensional data.” Install from GitHub (https://github.com/facebookresearch/hiplot) or install with pip install hiplot. Will run in Jupyter notebooks.
  • Julius: Freemium Data analysis and visualization tool that allows you to chat with files. 50% academic discount. Exports to CSV and Excel.
  • Jupyter Notebooks: Open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text. Can be used for data visualization and machine learning (and more). Can be run online without requiring students to install anything on their computers. Additional visualization tools include:
  • Looker Studio: Free web-based data visualization tool (Looker Studio Pro costs $9 per month per project per user). Integrates very well with Google services. Comparable with Tableau.
  • Microsoft Fabric: Freemium (pay-as-you-go or reservation) real time analytics and business intelligence tool. Can work with data lakes (OneLake). Integrates Microsoft Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Factory. 
  • PlotGPT: Visualize and analyze ChatGPT data.
  • Polymer: No-code visualization tool. Works with data from CSV, Dropbox, Facebook Ads, Google, Jira, Shopify, Stripe, Zendesk. Uses AI to make presentation and analysis suggestions.
  • Qlik: No-code analysis and visualization tool. Links to Cloud-hosted data.
  • Tableau (Salesforce): Queries large datasets to provide interactive visualizations. Free for instructors. One year access for students.

Detecting Cheating

Please note: General consensus is that detection of AI-generated text is problematic, unreliable, and lacks forensic proof.

Digital Marketing

  • 6sense: B2B customer prediction.
  • ABtesting.ai: AI A/B landing page optimization.
  • AdCreative.ai: AI-assisted banners and creative.
  • AiAdvertising: AI advertising platform.
  • AIMultiple: Aggregate public and private data on B2B technology.
  • AI Optimize: Dynamically personalizes website content for each visitor.
  • Amazon Personalize: ML-powered personalization.
  • Attention Insight: Pre-launch analytics tool.
  • Canva: AI-powered design tools.
  • Ceros: AI-powered design tools.
  • Drift: Lead generation.
  • Dynamic Yield: Experience optimization platform.
  • Engage AI: Uses OpenAI’s GPT to generate comments with prospects on LinkedIn.
  • Lately: Lead generation.
  • MarketMuse: AI-powered content creation and analysis.
  • Mutiny: No-code personalization for B2B. Has performance tracking.
  • Optimizely:A/B testing, multivariate testing tools, website personalization, feature toggle capabilities, web content management, and digital commerce solutions.
  • QuantPlus: Deconstructs ads into individual text and image elements, categorizes them, and compares each element for ad performance.
  • rasa.io: Custom newsletters.
  • Unbounce: AI-powered landing page creation and optimization platform.
  • VWO: Website optimization.
  • Writer: AI-powered writing tool. Maintains consistent message, style, and grammar across content.
  • Yext: AI-powered CMS delivers content to websites, apps, and workspaces.

Excel/Numbers/Sheets

  • AI Excel Bot: Generate Excel or Google Sheets formulas with text prompts.
  • Formula Bot: Generate Excel or Google Sheets formulas with text prompts.

Face Recognition

  • Seventh Sense: AI-based computer vision tasks for the defense, security, surveillance and retail markets.

Government

Hardware

Image Generation

  • Adobe Firefly: Adobe tool focussed on generating images and text
  • Astria: Tailor-made AI image generation.
  • Craiyon: Formerly DALL-E mini, is an AI model that can draw images from any text prompt. Free to use.
  • DALL-E: An AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language. Free to use, but you need to be granted an account.
  • Deep Dream Generator: AI art generator amd social media app.
  • Generative AI by Getty Images: Trained on the Getty Images library (full copyright indemnification).
  • GhostlyStock: Freely-usable AI stock art.
  • Have I Been Trained?: Search for your art or likeness in AI training datasets.
  • Ideogram: Competitor to DALL-E and Midjourney. Very good at generating text.  
  • Image Creator: Part of Microsoft Bing.
  • Imagen: Google's AI image generation system. Not available to the public.
  • Imagine with Meta AI: Meta's text to image tool. Uses the Emu model to create images (trained on Facebook and Instagram images).
  • Lensa: All-in-one image editing app that takes your photos.
  • Microsoft Designer: Image creation and editing.
  • Midjourney: Independent research lab that provides AI image generation via Discord.
  • Stable Diffusion: Open source image-generating systems.
    • DiffusionBee: One-click installer to run Stable Diffusion locally on M1 Macs.
    • Draw Things: iOS (and macOS port) version of Stable Diffusion. For iPhone 11 and higher. Requires about 2GB for Stable Diffusion models.
    • Easy Diffusion: One-click installer to run Stable Diffusion on your own PC. Typically requires a gaming PC (6GB VRAM, 10GB spare space).
    • Playground: Online AI image creator.
    • Runway: Online AI image and video creator.

AI Image Generation Search Engines

  • KREA: Explore millions of Stable Diffusion prompts and images.
  • Lexica: Stable Diffusion search engine.

Interior Design

Interview Preparation

Language Translation

  • DeepL: Free and paid language translation.

Local Large Language Models

  • FreedomGPT: Uncensored local chatbots.
    • macOS.
    • Windows.
  • GPT4All: Ecosystem to run powerful and customized large language models that work locally on consumer grade CPUs and any GPU.
  • llamafile: Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.
    • Linux.
    • macOS.
      • Simon Willison’s instructions for installing multimodal LLaVA 1.5 on a M2 Mac.
    • Windows.
  • LLM: CLI utility and Python library to run LLMs on your own hardware.
  • LLM Farm: Install Llama 2, Orca, Mistral, and other LLMs on macOS and iOS.
  • LM Studio: Run LLMs on your laptop.
  • MLC LLM: Universal solution to run on various hardware options.
  • Ollama: Tool for running LLMs on your own hardware.

Legal

  • Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA): “Addresses the prevalence of misleading information online through the development of technical standards for certifying the source and history (or provenance) of media content. C2PA is a Joint Development Foundation project, formed through an alliance between Adobe, Arm, Intel, Microsoft and Truepic.”
  • Stable Diffusion Frivolous: Response to the class action Stable Diffusion lawsuit created by "tech enthusiasts uninvolved in the case, and not lawyers, for the purpose of fighting misinformation."

Logo Creator

Mind Maps

Miscellaneous

Music

  • Music-Map: Music recommendation mind map.
  • Suno AI: AI-powered song generator.
  • Udio: AI-powered song generator.

News

Note Taking and Personal Organization

  • Mem: Self-organizing workspace.
  • NotebookLM: Google's AI-powered note-taking app.

Organizations

Personalized Learning

  • Khanmigo: On-demand assistance, developed by Khan Academy, for test preparation and learning new skills.&
  • (k)NudgingAI: AI teaching assistant.
  • MathGPT: Streamlit app that uses GPT-3 and Numpy to handle mathematical operations (vectors, matrices) and college physics problems. Created by José Manuel Nápoles Duarte.
  • Photomath: On-demand mathematics help for students (problem scanning, smart calculator, step-by-step solutions).
  • Socratic: App (iOS and Android) for assistance with homework.

Presentations

  • Beautiful.ai: Smart Slide templates with AI-assisted design, animations, customization options. Students who can access a free annual Pro subscription by verifying their .edu account.
  • Gamma: AI-assisted generation of presentations, documents, or web pages.
  • SlidesGPT: AI-assisted generation of PowerPoint and Google Slides.

Privacy

  • LLM Privacy: Current LLMs can accurately infer a wide range of personal details (like location, income, sex) from text, posing a significant privacy threat.

Prompt Engineering

Please note: Recent research suggests that AI models are more effective than humans at generating prompts autonomously. Additionally, many prompt techniques may not be generalizable across models.

Quiz and Teaching Content Generation

  • Conker: Quiz generation tool.
  • Knowt: Flashcards, quizzes, and review games.
  • Questgen: Quiz generation tool.
  • QuestionWell: Quiz generation tool.
  • Quizlet: Flashcards, study modes, and games.
  • TeacherMatic: Creates quizzes, lesson objectives, rubrics, etc.
  • Testportal: Quiz generation tool.
  • Twee: Create quiz questions from YouTube videos.

Search

  • Andi: Chatbot-style search engine.
  • Bard: Google's AI-powered search engine.
  • Bing: Microsoft's AI-powered search engine.
  • Brave: AI-powered search.
  • Metaphor: AI-powered search. More information about the tool here.
  • Perplexity: Chatbot-style search engine.
  • Phind: AI-powered search and assistant for programmers.

Security

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

  • AlliAI: No-code SEO. 
  • Copy.ai: AI writing tool for sales and marketing teams.
  • Frase: research, write, and optimize content.
  • GrowthBar: AI Writing Tool for SEO.

Simulations

Social Media

  • Agorapulse: Social media content creation with integrated AI tools.
  • Flick: AI Social Marketing Assistant.
  • GoCharlie: AI tool to create written and visual content. Focus is on blogs and social media.
  • Omneky: AI-powered social media ads.

Sustainability

  • CodeCarbon: Python package. Estimates the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by the cloud or personal computing resources used to execute the code. Shows how to lessen emissions.

Teaching

  • Merlyn: AI assistant for teachers designed to reduce time spent on administrative tasks and promote more engagement between teachers and students.
  • Writable: Education platform designed to support teachers with AI-assisted curriculum creation, feedback, prompt generation, and grading.

Video

  • CapCut: All-in-one video editing and image design.
  • DeepBrain: All-in-One AI video generator.
  • D-ID: Digital avatars.
  • Descript: Video and podcasts editing tool.
  • HeyGen: Digital avatar and platform that translates videos into different languages.
  • Opus Clip: AI-powered video repurposing
  • Pictory: Creates video content from scripts, articles, longer videos, and visuals.
  • Runway: Creative suite for images, video, and editing.
  • Synthesia: AI video creation. Stock AI avatars and option to create a personalized avatar. Speaks in 120 languages.
  • Synthesys: AI content suite.
  • Vidyo: Make short videos from longer ones.

Voice

  • Azure AI Speech: Microsoft's text to speech avatar. 
  • FakeYou: AI text to speech and voice to voice. 
  • Murf: AI text to speech.
  • Play.ht: AI voice generator and realistic text to speech.
  • Speechify: AI-powered text to speech app.
  • VoicePrivacy: Organization developing privacy preservation solutions for speech technology, via anonymization and pseudonymization to suppress personally identifiable information contained within recordings of speech while preserving linguistic content and speech quality/naturalness.

Voice to Text

  • AudioPen: AI-powered transcription of voice notes.
  • Fireflies: Automatically record and transcribe meetings.
  • MeetGeek: Transcribes conversation in a meeting and provides a summary.
  • Whisper: Open-source automatic speech recognition (ASR) system.

Writing

  • EleutherAI: A decentralized collective of volunteer researchers, engineers, and developers focused on AI alignment, scaling, and open source AI research.
  • Ginger: AI-powered writing assistant.
  • Grammarly: AI tool to improve grammar, spelling, and avoid plagiarism.
  • Hemingway: "Makes your writing bold and clear."
  • HyperWrite: AI-powered writing assistant and personal productivity tool  
  • InstaText: AI-powered writing assistant and editing tool.
  • Jasper: AI copywriting tool.
  • Jenni: AI writing assistant.
  • Lex: AI-assisted word processor.  
  • Notion AI: AI assistant to writing app.
  • Phrasee: AI marketing message assistant.
  • ProWritingAid: AI writing assistant.
  • QuillBot: AI-powered paraphrasing tool.
  • ShortlyAI: AI writing partner.
  • Silatus: Professional business writing tool for document creation. Specializes in job descriptions, product documentation, and research automation.
  • SmartWriter: AI writing assistant for personalised email.
  • Sudowrite: AI assistant for creative writers.
  • SummarizeBot: summarizes text.
  • Tome: AI storytelling assistant.
  • Trinka: Grammar checker and language correction AI tool for academic and technical writing.
  • Wordtune: AI writing assistant.

Books

Research

Useful Reading

Online Courses