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Scholarly Use of AI tools

This guide offers the UVic campus community practical information, ethical considerations, and best practices for understanding and using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools responsibly and efficiently in academia and higher education.

Microsoft CoPilot – Access to the GPT-4 powered Chatbot at UVic

What is Microsoft CoPilot? 

  • CoPilot is a GenAI tool, similar to ChatGPT or Google Gemini
    • Powered by OpenAI's latest large-language model GPT-4
    • Multimodal → it can generate text, code, images, etc.
  • Why does UVic provide access to CoPilot?
    • It is part of UVic's Microsoft 365 license
  • Who can access the GenAI tool at UVic? 
    • All UVic affiliates: students, faculty, staff, administration
  • What is required to access CoPilot?
  • Advantage of using CoPilot over similar tools? Data privacy!
    • User & organizational data are protected
    • Prompts & responses are not saved
    • Chats are not used to train the underlying AI model

 

 

QR Code linking to Microsoft CoPilot landing page

How to access the tool – step by step

Schematic overview on how to access CoPilot as a UVic member
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