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Generative AI in higher education

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Generative AI is the umbrella term for AI models that have been trained on massive amounts of data AI models and can use this to generate 'new' statistically likely but not necessarily correct text, images and other media based on a prompt. The best-known generative AI tools are perhaps ChatGPT, Midjourney and Dall-e, but a trend within this space is the integration of generative AI into narrow-use, user-friendly services, and into familiar services such as Microsoft Office and Grammarly. Recently KI staff gained access to Bing Chat Enterprise/Bing Co-Pilot, a tool which can process and generate images and texts.The arrival of this new technology poses the question of how the academic world can adapt. Whilst the majority accept that the generative AI is likely to become embedded in the academic context in the medium term, the challenge is how to handle the transition to this new world where such tools are the norm, and our AI-literacy is at an appropriate level in order to take full a