GenAI
Welcome to Baylor’s Generative Artificial Intelligence Online Resource
You will find guidelines, educational resources, training opportunities, and brief descriptions of and links to generative AI tools licensed by the university. As the educational opportunities and resources will be updated periodically, we encourage you to visit the site regularly.
Baylor embraces Generative Artificial Intelligence as an effective tool to support the institution's education, research, and operation.
As an R1 Christian university, we affirm that human conscience and intelligence are endowed by our Creator and cannot be replicated or replaced by artificial intelligence. As responsible stewards of resources, we are committed to leveraging AI effectively to enhance higher education while abiding by the following guidelines:
Existing university policies will apply to the use of AI to the greatest extent possible.
As AI-generated insights are increasingly used in making employment, financial, and mission-critical decisions, humans must retain the final decision-making authority.
Any new generative AI platforms and chatbots—including those developed by faculty, staff, and students—must undergo review and approval by BaylorITS and the Office of the Provost before adoption.
Use of AI tools in academic programs should be transparent.
Confidential data should be restricted for non-public AI tools in compliance with data security standards.
Users of AI-generated results bear full responsibility for ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. Actions resulting from AI tool usage are the sole responsibility of the user.
AI policy violations will be addressed by the appropriate academic dean’s office and the Office of the Provost. Misuse of AI by students should be reported to the Honor Council and violations will be governed by the university’s honor code.
Course instructors should specify the permitted use of AI tools and the responsibilities of students to document what and how tools and data were used in any course assignment.
All AI-generated results must undergo human review to ensure accuracy before being used.
Generative Artificial Intelligence has the potential to accelerate research. Current AI tools can summarize research content, analyze data, identify patterns in data, generate hypotheses, conduct literature reviews, or even operate as a research assistant.
These capabilities will expand and contract as these technologies change. In order to respond to the challenges presented by AI the research community must remain nimble and adjust to AI utilization methods quickly as announcements are distributed. Explore the following resources to enhance your understanding of Generative Artificial Intelligence.
AI Information Resources
This guide is to help instructors navigate the use of generative AI.
This guide is to help students navigate the use of generative AI.
This guide helps you learn how to integrate generative AI tools into your research.
A Canvas-based course to get you up to speed on GenAI.
Baylor's Academy for Teaching and Learning recorded sessions, documents, policies, and resources related to AI.
Instructional videos from Baylor's Academy for Teaching and Learning.
Guidance from Baylor's Office of Academic Integrity.
Faculty Guide developed by the HSB Technology Center.
Access to Baylor's Box required.
Resources collected by EDUCAUSE on AI in Higher Education
A simple guide by Jay Peters of The Verge.
An open-source volume of essays edited by Beth Buyserie, Ph.D. and Travis N. Thurston, Ph.D.
A three-course introduction to Generative AI.
Select Baylor-Licensed GenAI Platforms
Adobe Firefly
Adobe Firefly creates models and services that power GenAI features in other Adobe Creative Cloud apps such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom.
Box AI & Hubs
Box AI and Hubs natively integrate advanced AI models into the Box Content Cloud.
Covidence
Covidence is a software application used to assist researchers with systematic reviews.
Microsoft Copilot Chat
Microsoft Copilot Chat is a GenAI tool used to query complex questions, find comprehensive answers, get summarized information, and find inspiration to build upon.
NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit
A High Performance computing Application that provides a development environment for creating high-performance, GPU-accelerated applications.
Tensorflow
A High Performance Computing Application that provides an end-to-end open-source machine learning platform.
ZOOM AI Companion
ZOOM AI Companion can help draft emails and chat messages, summarize meetings and chat threads, improve brainstorming with colleagues, and more.
The BaylorITS Research Technology team proudly announces the launch of a new area of the BaylorITS website dedicated to guiding researchers to technology resources essential to research, especially grant-funded research. Research Technology connects researchers to consultants, software, services, guides, and additional resources designed to empower R1-level research across the university.
BaylorITS presents an Apple Workshop, “Start Your Education Learning Journey with iPad” on November 20, 2024, at 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. that offers students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to earn the first badge toward an Apple Teacher micro-certification while enhancing their productivity with iPad.
On Wednesday, November 13, and Tuesday, November 19, 2024, BaylorITS will offer two virtual Box Essentials training sessions to help Baylor faculty, staff, and students quickly and easily integrate Box into their everyday workflow.
Apple representatives invite you to an iPad workshop on Thursday, October 24, 2024, in the Schumacher Flex Commons on the main floor of Moody Memorial Library at 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Bring your iPad to follow along and ask questions!