Academic AI
More than 20 Austrian universities are participating in the Academic AI project under the technical and organisational leadership of ACOmarket. Academic AI makes ChatGPT accessible on a isolated instance of Microsoft Azure. This allows ChatGPT to be used without the data entered and documents uploaded leaving the ‘Azure Secure Landing Zone’.
The aim is to allow university members to use ChatGPT without security concerns and to give them an insight into the functionality of modern AI systems.
Academic AI offers users the opportunity to
- chat with the AI
- use the AI to analyse documents
- assign specific parameters in the AI lab
Use
To use it, you must complete the EU AI Act training on Moodle.
Afterwards, Academic AI can be accessed at: https://mul.academic-ai.at/
When selecting the organisation, choose ‘Montanuniversität Leoben’.
You can then authenticate yourself with your MUOnline access data.
Use is limited by a token limit. This is 20 euros per person and is renewed at the beginning of each month. Old credit cannot be carried over.
A token is the smallest unit of data processed by an AI. Uploading and analysing a document consumes more tokens than processing a typed language input. Using GPT 4o to process a language input consumes more tokens than using GPT 4o Mini.
Tailored AI
With our platform, users can create customised chatbots that can access up to 150 uploaded documents (formats: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, TXT, PPTX). The maximum file size is 150 MB, and the documents may comprise up to 3,000 pages or cells in total.
In addition, you can invite other users with specific permissions to use the chatbot or the associated data source:
- User: Get access to the chatbot and can use it.
- Contributor: May edit properties such as title, description and uploaded documents.
- Admin: Have full access, including the ability to delete the chatbot and perform user management.
Please note that admins have access to the title, description and last use of the chatbots.
Data protection
The service runs on a separate instance of Microsoft Azure, which means that data is not shared with ChatGPT's manufacturer, Open AI, or third parties. Your data will be automatically deleted from the system 90 days after your last login, but your chat history can also be deleted manually.
Please note that although user data relating to Tailored AI is also subject to this deletion period, the deletion period for such user data only begins once the user actively logs out of the respective Tailored AI chatbot.
For more detailed information, please refer to the MUL's data protection documents:
https://confluence.unileoben.ac.at/spaces/muldatenschutz/pages/153354317/Schulungsunterlagen+und+Video (accessible via intranet or VPN)