The AI Playground is built on four core pillars, creating a secure, dynamic, and purposeful environment for the College of Arts & Sciences community to explore, test, and master the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence.
Innovate: A versatile sandbox to prototype Al applications and develop novel solutions to complex problems.
Educate: Hands-on learning to enhance Al literacy across all academic disciplines.
Collaborate: A central hub to share ideas, code, and best practices, breaking down disciplinary silos.
Secure: A trusted, enterprise-grade environment that protects university data, privacy, and intellectual property.
Innovate: A versatile sandbox to prototype Al applications and develop novel solutions to complex problems.
Educate: Hands-on learning to enhance Al literacy across all academic disciplines.
Collaborate: A central hub to share ideas, code, and best practices, breaking down disciplinary silos.
Secure: A trusted, enterprise-grade environment that protects university data, privacy, and intellectual property.
Student Engagements
Student-led initiatives are at the forefront of exploring and shaping the role of Artificial Intelligence in society.
Research & Scholarly Initiatives
These initiatives focus on using AI to enhance learning and explore new frontiers.
- AI Fluency Workshops: Workshops for students on the fundamentals of AI.
- Topics: What is Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Large Language Models (LLM)? How to write effective prompts (prompt engineering). How to use AI for research and brainstorming. How to properly cite AI-generated content. Recognizing AI bias and hallucinations.
Project-Based & Entrepreneurial Initiatives
These initiatives collectively cultivate a campus environment that prioritizes innovation, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and entrepreneurial thinking around artificial intelligence.
- AI Prototyping: Empower students to learn hands-on skills that support their inquiry and fluency with AI tools.
- Themes: "AI for Campus Life," "AI for Sustainability," "AI for Mental Health."
- Goals: Encourage students to work with APIs from companies like AWS, OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic to create functional prototypes.
- AI Startup Incubator: Empower student organizations to develop AI based startup ideas.
- Services: Provide mentorship from alumni in tech, host pitch competitions, and share resources on business model creation and funding in conjunction with other services within the College of Arts & Sciences.
- Creative AI Studio: Support and empower students in the arts and humanities to explore generative AI.
- Projects: Create an AI art exhibition, produce a short film with AI-generated visuals or scripts, compose music with AI tools (like Amper Music), or publish a zine of AI-assisted poetry and short stories.
Faculty Engagements
Faculty engagements for the AI Playground in the College of Arts & Sciences typically focus on experimentation, integration, and ethical consideration of Artificial Intelligence tools in research and scholarship.
Research & Scholarly Initiatives
Proof of Concept Workshops/Prototypes: Sessions dedicated to exploring various Generative AI tools (like large language models, image generators, data visualization tools) and their potential applications. Examples include:
- AI-Assisted Content Creation: Using AI to generate content/data simulations & immersive content.
- Image, Video & Visual Content Creation: Experimenting with AI for artistic inquiry and project development.
- Data Analysis and Visualization: Utilizing AI to quickly analyze large datasets or handwritten journals in research, develop connectors in qualitative/quantitative data research.
- Agentic AI Tools for Prototyping: Autonomous AI systems that can independently plan and execute multi-step tasks to achieve a goal, rather than just responding to prompts. These systems use large language models to reason and can interact with other tools and environments to complete complex workflows, making them proactive and capable of working without constant human oversight.
Advance Faculty Research and Scholarly Output
- Research Tools: Demonstrations on how AI can act as an "agentic research assistant" to perform tasks like summarizing academic papers, analyzing large text corpora, or drafting non-critical sections of documents.
- Faculty Engagement Support: Provide Proof of Concept Tools and support to select faculty to design and implement a Generative AI proof of concept and project plan to enhance their research and scholarly outcomes, followed by opportunities to share their experiences.
- Peer Panel Discussions: Forums where faculty from diverse disciplines share their experiences, insights, and challenges regarding the successful use of AI in their specific research areas.
Student Engagements
Student-led initiatives are at the forefront of exploring and shaping the role of Artificial Intelligence in society.
Research & Scholarly Initiatives
These initiatives focus on using AI to enhance learning and explore new frontiers.
- AI Fluency Workshops: Workshops for students on the fundamentals of AI.
- Topics: What is Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Large Language Models (LLM)? How to write effective prompts (prompt engineering). How to use AI for research and brainstorming. How to properly cite AI-generated content. Recognizing AI bias and hallucinations.
Project-Based & Entrepreneurial Initiatives
These initiatives collectively cultivate a campus environment that prioritizes innovation, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and entrepreneurial thinking around artificial intelligence.
- AI Prototyping: Empower students to learn hands-on skills that support their inquiry and fluency with AI tools.
- Themes: "AI for Campus Life," "AI for Sustainability," "AI for Mental Health."
- Goals: Encourage students to work with APIs from companies like AWS, OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic to create functional prototypes.
- AI Startup Incubator: Empower student organizations to develop AI based startup ideas.
- Services: Provide mentorship from alumni in tech, host pitch competitions, and share resources on business model creation and funding in conjunction with other services within the College of Arts & Sciences.
- Creative AI Studio: Support and empower students in the arts and humanities to explore generative AI.
- Projects: Create an AI art exhibition, produce a short film with AI-generated visuals or scripts, compose music with AI tools (like Amper Music), or publish a zine of AI-assisted poetry and short stories.
Faculty Engagements
Faculty engagements for the AI Playground in the College of Arts & Sciences typically focus on experimentation, integration, and ethical consideration of Artificial Intelligence tools in research and scholarship.
Research & Scholarly Initiatives
Proof of Concept Workshops/Prototypes: Sessions dedicated to exploring various Generative AI tools (like large language models, image generators, data visualization tools) and their potential applications. Examples include:
- AI-Assisted Content Creation: Using AI to generate content/data simulations & immersive content.
- Image, Video & Visual Content Creation: Experimenting with AI for artistic inquiry and project development.
- Data Analysis and Visualization: Utilizing AI to quickly analyze large datasets or handwritten journals in research, develop connectors in qualitative/quantitative data research.
- Agentic AI Tools for Prototyping: Autonomous AI systems that can independently plan and execute multi-step tasks to achieve a goal, rather than just responding to prompts. These systems use large language models to reason and can interact with other tools and environments to complete complex workflows, making them proactive and capable of working without constant human oversight.
Advance Faculty Research and Scholarly Output
- Research Tools: Demonstrations on how AI can act as an "agentic research assistant" to perform tasks like summarizing academic papers, analyzing large text corpora, or drafting non-critical sections of documents.
- Faculty Engagement Support: Provide Proof of Concept Tools and support to select faculty to design and implement a Generative AI proof of concept and project plan to enhance their research and scholarly outcomes, followed by opportunities to share their experiences.
- Peer Panel Discussions: Forums where faculty from diverse disciplines share their experiences, insights, and challenges regarding the successful use of AI in their specific research areas.