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ChatGPT, AI, and Information Literacy

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What is ChatGPT? What is Chat AI?

ChatGPT and other recently launched Chat AI tools (such as Gemini and Bing CoPilot) are what are known as “natural language processing” tools (they chat). They use a large language model, or LLM, along with human feedback and training to generate responses. A large language model, or LLM, is a deep learning algorithm that can recognize, summarize, translate, predict and generate text and other content based on knowledge gained from massive datasets.

What is Information Literacy? 

Information literacy is the skill set required for recognizing the nature of an information need and fullfilling the need by effectively locating and ethically using qualilty, reliable, and applicable information content.