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Step-by-step guide for BYU-Idaho employees with a CES ChatGPT Edu license. Covers accepting the OpenAI email invitation the first time, then signing in thereafter: entering your User Principal Name (UPN) rather than your email address, selecting Church Educational System, choosing Use BYU-Idaho, completing MFA, and confirming you have landed in the CES ChatGPT workspace.
Learn the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and how modern AI systems are built, trained, and refined.
How AI systems are trained to behave helpfully, safely, and honestly in ways that match human values and intent.
Explains Agent Skills as reusable playbooks an AI agent loads on demand: how Skills differ from tools, how ChatGPT discovers and loads them through progressive disclosure, the open Agent Skills specification and SKILL.md format, and where Skills fit in an enterprise agent architecture.
How AI systems remember conversations, why they sometimes forget, and how to work within their working-memory limits.
Why AI tools sometimes generate confident-sounding information that is partially or completely fabricated — and how to catch it.
The three phases that turn massive text datasets into a usable AI assistant: dataset building, pretraining, and refinement.
A user-facing FAQ explaining ChatGPT Edu, its included features, model options, credit and usage limits, account guidance, appropriate use, privacy considerations, training, and steps for getting started. Most users do not need to understand credits or tokens to begin using ChatGPT Edu.
Definitions of the AI terms you'll encounter most often at BYU-Idaho — from alignment and tokens to context windows and RAG.
Why AI models tend to validate users instead of challenging flawed assumptions, and how to push back for more honest answers.
How to give AI tools the right information at the right time to produce accurate, useful responses.
The architectural tradeoffs of modern large language models and the core weaknesses that emerge from alignment training.
Free Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (aka Free Copilot), a powerful AI assistant available at copilot.cloud.microsoft.com. This tool is designed to enhance your productivity by assisting with a variety of tasks, from drafting emails to generating reports, and much more.