TerpAI
TerpAI is a powerful GenAI tool designed to simplify your interactions with technology and enhance your daily tasks. Acting as your digital assistant, thought partner, and educational resource, TerpAI helps you manage projects and research topics and get quick answers with ease. It's invaluable for students and educators, providing clarity on complex concepts and assisting with study guides and lesson plans. As a thought partner, TerpAI offers insights that improve decision-making, whether you're brainstorming ideas or analyzing data. Seamlessly integrating into your existing digital environment, TerpAI is secure and reliable, ensuring your data is handled with the highest privacy standards. With TerpAI, you can work smarter, learn more effectively, and make confident decisions.
What can it do?
- Assist users using question and answer format - Provides detailed and accurate answers to a wide range of questions
- Answer questions about images and files - Including charts and graphs (PDFs up to 50 pages, Word, Excel, and CSV)
- Chat with voice - Engages in voice-based interactions for a more natural user experience
- Generate content - Creates blog posts, articles, and other forms of written content
- Edit content - Improves the tone, style, and grammar of existing text
- Summarize text - Condenses long passages of text into concise summaries
- Translate text - Converts text into different languages
- Brainstorm ideas - Helps users generate and develop new ideas
- Assist with code - Helps users understand a code block and write code based on design mockups
What can't it do?
- TerpAI is not trained on UMD-specific data, so it does not have special insight when answering UMD-related questions. It responds with public information from its training data, like ChatGPT.
- It is not a search engine--it does not include the full scope of public web-based information in its responses.
- It cannot currently generate images or video.
Is my data safe with TerpAI?
TerpAI is approved for up to Level 1, "Low Risk" data, based on the University of Maryland Data Classification Standard.
Any data you put into TerpAI will not be shared with other users or used to train the AI.
Usage Limits
An individual's usage limit is about 40,000 words per day. The number of interactions per day will vary depending on the length and complexity of the questions and answers. Below are some details related to varied types of interactions:
| Type | Expected limits per day |
|---|---|
| Interactions | Expect 50 interactions per day (an interaction is one question and a TerpAI response) assuming 800 words per interaction |
| PDF pages | Expect 150 pages uploaded |
| Word Doc pages | Expect 150 pages uploaded |
| Excel spreadsheets | Expect 7,500 Excel rows uploaded |
When you near your usage limit for the day, an alert will appear at the bottom of your TerpAI window.
The individual usage limit resets at 7 a.m. ET daily.
These usage limits are necessary to ensure that TerpAI is available as a shared resource for all university community members. If you are a power user, reach out to DIT's AI team at dit-ais@umd.edu, and they can help you find other available solutions.
Feature Roadmap
TerpAI will be enhanced over time. Below is an expected timeline for some new features and capabilities.
Late 2024
- Internet Web Results
- Chat Feedback
Early 2025
- Image Generation with DALL-E
- Additional AI Models
- Web Indexing
Late 2025
- Canvas Integration
- Grading Assistant
- Whisper Speech
Additional Information
Learn more about how to use TerpAI and what makes it run by reading the TerpAI support article.
You can also watch this Getting Started video: