KI 2256 UiBchat

UiBchat is a service available from chat.uib.no similar to ChatGPT that is made available to UiB's students and employees. It provides an interface where you can have a conversation with a robot assistant powered by the generative AI model GPT-4o from OpenAI.

The current service is a pilot which means that it still might have issues like bugs and limited capacity, and that we will evaluate to determine how (or even if) this service will continue after 2024-12-31. If you have questions or want to provide feedback consider joining our Teams channel.

You will initially be asked to sign in with your UiB account. If you have access to the service, you will be redirected to UiBchat.

Be aware that the language models that are available today often “hallucinate” and should not be considered reliable. You can read more information about this here:

In the main view in the middle, you can adjust a couple of settings:

System Prompt: The “instructions” the language model follow when answering.
Temperature: How random the model’s answers should be.
- Temperatures closer to 0 give more deterministic answers, while temperatures closer to 1 give more random answers.

You enter a message by typing into the box at the bottom of the main view. If you do not already have an active conversation, this will start a new one.

If you already have an active conversation with the chat bot, you can start a new conversation by clicking New chat in the top left corner. The main view will then look like it did initially, with settings for the system prompt and the temperature.

It is possible to have several conversations at the same time, which are then possible to choose between in the left sidebar. If you have many conversations stored, you can use the search bar in the top left to search for specific conversations. If a conversation is not given a name manually, it will automatically be named after its first message.

You can also create folders to sort your conversations by clicking the folder button next to the New chat button. To put a conversation into a folder, simply drag and drop the conversation into the desired folder.

In the right sidebar you can create prompts, which are essentially message macros. This can be useful if you often follow a certain template for messages. To create a prompt, click the New prompt button at the top of the sidebar. Then, click on the newly created prompt and fill in the Name, Description, and Prompt fields. The Prompt field is used as the template, where {{name}} is used to denote variables.
Example:

Name: whatis
Description: Macro to ask what something is.
Prompt: What is {{thing}}?

This allows you to enter /whatis into the message field to open a window where you fill in the variable thing.

In the bottom left, you can click Clear conversation to delete all conversations (and folders) you have stored, Export data to export all conversations, folders, and prompts to a .json file, and Settings to switch between Dark mode and Light mode.