Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) refers to contemporary machine learning systems that can create new content in response to prompts by sampling from a model that has learned patterns from training data. Tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, or Anthropic’s Claude are well-known GenAI applications that use large language models (LLMs) trained on vast amounts of data to generate coherent, human-like text in response to user prompts. LLMs have shown impressive capabilities in tasks like summarization, text creation, and code generation. Increasingly, GenAI systems have become multimodal, allowing for the processing and generation of images, sound, and multimedia.
As a proof of concept, Research Computing is currently offering access to these LLMs through chat.dartmouth.edu