Engineering Education Research: AI and Your Research
Using Artificial Intelligence in Your Research
Whether you are a general user of this Guide or part of the UB Community, please practice the policies your institution has set to maintain academic integrity when using Artificial Tools.
If you are affiliated with the University at Buffalo, please familiarize yourself with the policies set in place as to how to use the tool appropriately as a student and as an instructor. More information for instructors can be found on Artificial Intelligence Guidance, or for students at Artificial Intelligence from the Office of Academic Integrity.
AI Tools & Resources at UB
Microsoft Copilot, an AI-powered chatbot grounded in up-to-date information, can help you find answers and create content. Copilot features the power of ChatGPT-5 with commercial data protection from Microsoft.
Limitations to Keep in Mind
- Generative AI chatbots are designed to be plausible rather than credible. They often hallucinate, which means they make up information, including citations to non-existent scholarly sources.
- Generative AI chatbots do not have access to and have not been trained on the vast majority of scholarly materials which are behind a paywall (available via the Libraries subscription databases). Although this is beginning to change with some scholarly publishers selling access to journal contents to train large language models, the majority of scholarly information is not available to train models.
- Because generative AI chatbots create original responses to prompts, the information they provide is not reproducible. In addition, you may find that multiple users supplying the same prompt to a chatbot at the same time will produce different responses.