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How AI Might Be Used

Productivity | Patient Care | Teaching and Learning | Research


To Increase Work Productivity

The possibilities of what you can do with UT Verse or Copilot are almost endless! With UT Verse or Copilot, you can:

  • Summarize information easily 
  • Brainstorm and get started on assignments 
  • Get step-by-step explanations for solutions 
  • Find answers quickly, with links to sources 
  • Improve your writing skills 
  • Learn or study in the way that works best for you 
  • Receive initial feedback on your work 
  • Make your projects more visually appealing  
  • Free up time for what matters and interests you most

However, remember to use caution with information produced by AI as it may not always be accurate.

To Provide Better Patient Care

AI is already revolutionizing patient care in many ways! It can be used to:

  • Tailor communications to the individual's unique medical history, condition, and preferences, thus helping them understand medical jargon, treatment details and insurance policies
  • Help patients with dietary and lifestyle choices by chatting with a Gen AI-powered chatbot
  • Help healthcare professionals articulate complex medical queries conversationally and distill long research papers and clinical documents into clear summaries, aiding swift comprehension

To Enhance Teaching and Learning

Generative AI can be used in classroom, lab, and clinical educational settings to achieve the following:

  • Assist faculty in developing the following tools and instruments:
    • Syllabi (Teaching and Learning Center’s Course Syllabus Guide)
    • Course outcomes
    • Assessments
    • Rubrics
    • Case studies
    • Images and other visual elements to use in teaching and research
  • Explore facets of Scholarship of Teaching of Learning (SoTL):
    • Best practices for developing research questions, literature reviews, and other related aspects of designing and writing a study
  • Discover links to resources about current trends in generative AI as they relate to education, including articles, webinars, books, and workshops
  • Use links for assistance to better communicate generative AI expectations to their students

To Conduct Research

The pace at which data is being generated, which is exponentially increasing, is far exceeding our expert ability to make sense of the data.  That’s where generative AI and other AI methods could become extremely useful to help uncover the regularities, commonalities, and differences in all this data in a way that is less biased and also more efficient and faster than what humans can do.

Some of the more useful features of AI to help make research more efficient are:

  • hypothesis generation
  • code generation

Authorship and AI tools

The use of AI tools has become more common in research publications. 

COPE in conjunction with other organizations like WAME and the JAMA Network has adopted a position statement that says AI tools cannot be listed as an author of a paper. 

Additional Writing Prompt Resources for Researchers

May 7, 2024