FAQs
What is Aggie AI?
Aggie AI is the new generative artificial intelligence (genAI) chat tool from UC Davis, a collaboration between the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences and Information and Educational Technology (IET). It’s here to answer questions related to UC Davis. Whether you’re a student, faculty, or staff member, Aggie AI is here to provide helpful information and guidance.
How is Aggie AI different from ChatGPT?
Aggie AI runs on a large language model (LLM) derived from OpenAI (the makers of ChatGPT) but was especially trained on data sources specific to UC Davis. Moreover, it is continuously updated with new information, providing you with the latest updates from UC Davis.
Is Aggie AI available to everyone on campus?
In fall 2024, Aggie AI is in closed beta: members of the campus community (students, faculty, staff) interested in providing feedback on the tool and its features and functions have been invited to participate in the pilot. If you’d also like to join the pilot, please reach out to [email protected] and let us know!
Is it ok to put my personal information into Aggie AI?
Aggie AI is not yet connected to personalized results and providing personal information won’t help it give better answers at this time. While it’s OK to provide Aggie AI with information you’d normally share with a classmate or general administrator at the University, putting anything more sensitive than that isn’t covered by the Aggie AI Terms and Conditions.
What kind of information is not allowed on Aggie AI?
Information that can be classified as P4is not allowed in Aggie AI. Other information that is not allowed includes:
- Social security numbers
- Health information
- Other highly sensitive personal information
Please refer to the Aggie AI Terms for additional details, as well as the data protection levels (P1-P4) as outlined in IS-3.
Does Aggie AI hallucinate or provide inaccurate answers?
As with all generative AI and large language models, Aggie AI could get things wrong. It’s been trained on University information and as a result, tends to be more right than other sources, but you cannot expect it to be always accurate. Aggie AI does provide you with links and sources to verify its information. Please double check any important information.
How do I log into Aggie AI?
You can get to Aggie AI by going to https://chat.ucdavis.edu/. You’ll need a UC Davis computing account to log in.
- Go to https://chat.ucdavis.edu/
- On the resulting window, hit the button that says UC Login.
- On the next screen, log into your UC Davis computing account. You will be redirected to the chat window.
How do I log out of Aggie AI?
Since Aggie AI uses single sign-on to authenticate, you’ll have to log out of your computing account to log out of Aggie AI. A logout button is on our roadmap, but we’re still in beta!
How do I provide feedback?
Aggie AI currently is in closed beta. We have a slack channel (#aggie-ai-user-community) for asking the development team questions, and will be sending out a survey for gathering more focused feedback once the closed beta period is over.
Who’s that cute mascot?
That’s Rocky. He’s new here but learns quickly and would love to help the UC Davis community with any info they might need.