Swisher Library: Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence (AI): Using AI Effectively

Attribution

The information on this page is authored by University of Arizona Libraries, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Modifications to the text were made to reflect Jacksonville University's use.

Remember, you'll always need to verify the information. AI is not a perfect science.

What is it good for?

Brainstorming ideas
Narrowing your topic ideas for a research paper, and keywords for searching in library databases.
Explaining information in ways that are easy to understand
Summarizing and outlining
Asking questions (be sure to fact check the results) You can ask a million questions without fear of being judged.
Translating text to different languages (not completely fluent in every language)
Helping write or debug computing code

What is it not so good for?

Library research (not yet). For now, it's best to use the Swisher Library's catalog and databases.
Asking for any information that would have dire consequences if it was incorrect (such as health, financial, legal advice, and so on). This is because of its tendency to sometimes make up answers, but still sound very confident.

Check with your instructor for each course to find out the policy on using AI tools.

AI cannot replace original thought and the way one interprets the information being written about.