Glossary
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Academic Misconduct
Academic Misconduct is an intentional action taken by an individual to deceive their instructor, peers, or institution, often in an attempt to achieve a higher grade, gain course credit, or otherwise be recognized for performance not achieved.
Artificial Intelligence
Any technology or process that allows machines to mimic human cognition.
Machine Learning
A subset of Artificial Intelligence that uses statistical modelling or algorithms to identify rules or patterns in data.
Deep Learning
A subset of Machine Learning that uses artificial neural networks modelled on the human brain to identify rules or patterns in data.
Generative AI
A subset of Deep Learning that can use learned rules or patterns to generate new content.
Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) are computational models that are trained on huge datasets of text to recognize common patterns and relationships in natural language. They can be used for generating texts that mimic human language.
ChatBots
ChatBots are designed to simulate conversation. They can be built on LLMs, allowing them to provide more sophisticated responses to prompts. Note that not all chatbots are generative; many are rule-based, meaning they have a set of pre-defined responses to prompts and do not generate unique or original text.
Hallucinations
Generative models are subject to generating nonsensical outputs, such as words or phrases that don’t exist, grammatically incorrect text, references to articles or resources that don’t exist, or warped images. These are called Hallucinations.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the act of copying the words or ideas of someone else without proper attribution or recognition.
Pre-trained
Large Language Models are trained on massive amounts of text to allow them to learn patterns and relationships which allows them to generate new text. This training is completed before the LLM is released to the public.
Prompt
A prompt is the text that is provided to the system providing instructions on the desired output or the task being requested.
Examples of prompts:
For text-to-text:
- Write a detailed case study demonstrating environmental racism in a Canadian context for a class of first year university students at a Canadian university.
- Summarize the key themes of Orwell’s 1984 in a bulleted list and simple English.
For text-to-image
- Generate a photorealistic depiction of Six Grandfathers Mountain before it was carved into Mount Rushmore.
Scholastic Offenses
Scholastic Offenses are any forms of academic misconduct that undermine the evaluation process, and include, but are not limited to, plagiarism, cheating on an exam, submitting course work that has previously been submitted in other courses or programs without knowledge of the instructor, and other intentional actions of deception or fraud that impact evaluation and assessment. (https://www.uwo.ca/univsec/pdf/academic_policies/appeals/scholastic_discipline_undergrad.pdf 
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