How to use AI in your school work
Artificial Intelligence has the potential to help you get inspired and improve your work, so long as you do not use it as a replacement for your own thoughts, ideas, and writing.
Learn how to ask AI the right questions.
Some ethical ways that artificial intelligence can be used to inspire your work if explicitly authorized by your instructor:
- Suggestions for project topics: Tell the AI what you are interested in and even what the requirements of the assignment are, and it can suggest topics for you to write about.
- Generate keywords for further searching: Sometimes we get stuck and can't come up with the right keywords to search for. AI is great at turning a question into keywords.
- Editing for spelling and grammar: You probably already use AI for this if you use Grammarly or grammar checking in Word.
- Helping you arrange your ideas: AI can be really helpful in making an outline. Give it your thesis and a list of ideas that you want to touch on in your paper and ask for an outline. Remember that you're not locked in, you can change it if it doesn't work for you, or even ask the AI to try again.
- Coding: Because programming languages are very structured, AI is really good at helping to debug or write code snippets.
- Summarize Meetings: If you want to record meetings, Zoom's AI Assistant and Microsoft's Co-Pilot are really useful. Always make sure everyone in the meeting knows you are recording, and if it's a class, get permission from the professor before class starts.
Naturally, any material generated by any form of AI should be proofread, personalized, improved, and appropriately cited. Make sure that you get your own copy of any citations that you get from AI, because they make things up. See this article to learn more.
