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AI for Aalto students

A collection of AI tips, tools and advice for Aalto students

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Aalto AI Assistant, for students - at ai.aalto.fi

Now: A secure ChatGPT clone that protects your data. Used by thousands of personnel members and students. The Aalto AI Assistant is protected by multi‑factor authentication (MFA).

Soon: A tool to interact with Aalto data and student services, including the Student Guide, MyCourses, and teacher-assigned tasks

How to use Aalto AI Assistant

How Aalto protects its AI data

Aalto AI Assistant interface with conversation list on the left and welcome message on the right.

Open Aalto AI Assistant 

The ways of us using AI

Discover how fellow Aalto students are using AI to level up real‑world skills and why mastering AI is fast becoming a core competence for your future career. In these bite‑size videos, they share practical tips and ethical best practices with Aalto’s AI Assistant to help you build confidence and use AI responsibly. Press play and get inspired.

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Tips for Aalto AI Assistant

Prompt Book webpage displaying categories like System prompts, AI Use Cases, Brainstorming, By prompt tech, Creating Content, Data Processing.
Get to know the Prompt Book: a) Under System Prompts, you’ll find ready‑made prompts that change how the AI responds. b) AI Use Cases are AI‑related stories from Aalto. c) Prompts are a collection of ready‑to‑use prompts for different purposes.
Text box reads 'Answer always in Swedish, as a person who...'. Below it are 'System prompt' and a button 'Advanced settings'.
With the System Prompt under Advanced settings, you can freely change how the AI respond: its role, output format, whether it asks you follow‑up questions, and more.
Language models listed: GPT 5.1, GPT 5, and GPT-OSS-120B, with descriptions for each.
The current language models in the Aalto AI Assistant are GPT‑based, the same as those in ChatGPT. We also offer a local GPT‑OSS model in which data remains entirely on Aalto’s servers. Google Gemini is on its way as well.
A dialogue box with 'Upload a File' and a 'Choose File' button. Below, a text states 'Read the PDF and …'.
Add PDF, TXT, and CSV files and copy-pasted images, then chat with and process the content.
Aalto University Schools and Departments: Arts, Business, Chemical Engineering.
Ask Aalto AI to turn your thoughts into mind maps. Not so fancy, but easy to edit and process.

Why to use Aalto AI Assistant

The main reasons are safety and privacy. Both user agreements and digital firewalls protect your data when using the Aalto AI Assistant, compared with services like ChatGPT. The Aalto AI Assistant does not use your data to train language models. 

In addition, we can incorporate more of our own data into the assistant. We started with content from Aalto.fi and are moving on to academic sources such as MyCourses.
 

Comparison of key features between ChatGPT and Aalto AI Assistant
Feature ChatGPT Aalto AI Assistant
Protects your data (does not train LLMs) ❌ ✅
Reads uploaded files (PDF) ✅ ✅
Analyses images, converts to text ✅ ✅
Possibility to discuss Aalto's content and
data		 ❌
Never		 ✅
Chat with Aalto.fi (now for staff)
Chat with Student Guide (coming up)
MyCourses AI Assistant (coming up)
The tool can be used by including Aalto's...    
... public content ✅ ✅
... internal content ❌ ✅
... confidential content ❌ ✅
... secret content ❌ ❌


 

Tips for studying with AI 

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Translate Office Documents

  • Word documents can be translated in their entirety at once.
  • PowerPoint presentations can be translated by paragraph or word.
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Let Teams follow your work meetings, and let the Aalto AI Assistant take the notes

  • A series of group projects is coming up and no one is taking notes?  Tip: Write down a few basics by hand, then a) let Teams or Zoom capture your study group meetings as a transcript. One phone is enough; not everyone needs to join the meeting.
     
  • First, get everyone’s consent and, for example in Teams, enable transcription only. After the meeting - no matter how messy – b) copy the transcription and c) ask the AI Assistant to generate notes from the discussion; you can also provide a brief prompt with key terms to guide it. 

    Important: Do not share Aalto-internal or confidential conversations with ChatGPT.

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Chat with aalto.fi feature now available in a chat window

The conversational chatbot, Chat with aalto.fi, which replies to questions based on the content of aalto.fi, is now accessible to logged-in users via a chat window.
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Aalto, Sitra and Lovable launch AI Summer Program

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Creative Teaching in the Age of AI: What Changes – and What Stays the Same?

Nearly a hundred Aalto teachers and education professionals gathered at Marsio Presents: Creative Teaching in the Age of AI to explore how rapidly evolving AI tools are changing teaching practices, while core goals like critical thinking, motivation, real-world problem solving and human interaction remain essential. Keynotes, teacher examples, and thematic dialogue sessions highlighted concrete ways to use AI as a responsible partner in teaching, and showed a strong appetite for ongoing, peer-based pedagogical dialogue and sharing of good practices.
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Aalto Inventors marks its first anniversary, having engaged 190 researchers across six cohorts in fields including AI, quantum, and biomaterials. New cohorts are planned for the next academic year, stay tuned and join the waitlist.
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AI events

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AI Hour for Teachers, 18 May

Monthly, drop‑in AI Hour for Teachers: two one‑hour windows with no registration or fixed agenda—ask anything about AI, try tools, and swap ideas.
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For Aalto community IT & digital tools, Support for digital teaching –

AI Hour for Teachers, 20 May

Monthly, drop‑in AI Hour for Teachers: two one‑hour windows with no registration or fixed agenda—ask anything about AI, try tools, and swap ideas.
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