Purdue University faculty, staff and students have access to GPT-4 through Microsoft Copilot with Data Protection. Previously branded Bing Chat Enterprise (BCE), Copilot with Data Protection ensures that user and organizational data is protected.
“While it is built on the same foundational GPT-4 model and initial data as ChatGPT, Copilot with Data Protection also has access to Internet data from 2022 to present,” said Preston Smith, executive director for the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing at Purdue.
Unlike Copilot for Microsoft 365, Copilot with Data Protection does not access M365 files and data. Chat data is not saved, and chat data will not be available in any capacity to Microsoft or other large language models to train their AI tools against.
"Microsoft Copilot provides generative support for the entire Purdue community, in research, in outreach and in education,” said Eugenio Culurciello, professor of bioengineering and director of the Institute for Physical Artificial Intelligence (IPAI) at Purdue University. “We are excited about the prospects of accelerating the development of AI science assistants."
To access Copilot with Data Protection, users will need to sign in with their campus-specific Purdue account.