What I Thought AI Was... and What I Learned Have you ever stopped to think about how AI actually works? I know I hadn't. Before reading Kalota's Primer, I simply saw AI as a helpful tool that corrected mistakes, organized my ideas, and improved the structure of my...

Part 1  Kalota's article brought up a ton of concepts about AI I have never heard of. One AI concept that stood out to me was the distinction among AI, machine learning, and deep learning. Before reading this article, I thought of AI as a single technology. However, I...

Part 1: Kalota’s Primer Kalota’s primer discusses how generative AI systems do not fully understand questions or search for the correct answer. They study patterns in training data and predict which words are most likely to come next. Before reading the article, I...

I found Kalota’s Primer interesting as it pulled the curtain back on AI. I believed that AI systems essentially just extracted data from numerous databases and resources, but I was intrigued by the concept of “unsupervised machine learning”. During this process, the...

Before reading this article, I believed equated artificial intelligence and generative AI as the same thing. I see now that for it to be generative, it must generate, produce, or create something. As opposed to AI which could be anything from the program that empties...

Part I – Kalota’s Primer Kalota’s article provided a lot of useful information regarding how AI works. One concept that changed my perspective of AI is that it creates new information based on training or pattern recognition. I assumed AI to be like a search engine...

Kalota Before reading Kalota's article, I had already been using generative AI in several areas of my life without fully understanding how it worked. In my admissions role at an addiction treatment facility, I use it to improve the clarity, language and grammar of...

Prior to reading "A Primer on Generative Artificial Intelligence," I believed I had a solid understanding of how AI functions. I was obviously mistaken; I always understood that artificial intelligence was not always accurate and that since it was merely a bot rather...

I am a person who rarely uses AI, but I cannot say I have not tried it. I remember when ChatGPT first came out, and almost every one of my classmates was using it as a tool for their studies. I decided to give it a try and inserted an essay into the machine and...