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COM 355: Global Health Communication

This guide was created to assist students in COM 355: Global Health Communication.

Generative AI

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, artificial intelligence can be defined as the capacity of computers or other machines to exhibit or simulate intelligent behaviour. Also, the field of study concerned with this. Abbreviated AI. It was coined in 1955. 

Generative AI is a form of artificial intelligence in which models are trained to generate new content based on natural language input. In other words, you can describe a desired output in normal everyday language, and the model can respond by creating text, image, or even code output.

There are currently two leaders in the generative AI text field, with ChatGPT from OpenAI being the most popular. Links to their products can be found below. 

Questions to Consider

Topics to explore in ChatGPT or Bard:

  1. What is "Global Health Communication"?
  2. What is "Internet-Based Intervention"?
  3. Why is peer reviewed research important?
  4. What are qualitative methods?

Using ChatGPT as a catchall for generative AI, please consider the following questions:

  1. What does ChatGPT get right?
  2. What does it get wrong?
  3. Using the example topics that we explored, what is missing from ChatGPT's perspective on this topic?
  4. When would ChatGPT be helpful? 
  5. When would it not be helpful?
  6. Who benefits from using ChatGPT?
  7. Who is harmed by it?

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