Get Started with Clarity’s AI Chatbot 

The AI chatbot on the Clarity platform is like Microsoft Copilot with data protection or OpenAI’s ChatGPT but housed within Yale’s secure infrastructure to allow use with sensitive/confidential/proprietary data. The Clarity AI chatbot is a generative AI tool that can help you generate content, write code, describe and analyze uploaded images and summarize uploaded documents. 

Features

  • Chat Limit: There is no limit to how many chat sessions you can have. If you don’t want to keep a chat, you can delete it from the chat history. 
  • File Upload: There is no limit to how many files you can upload, however, there is an individual file size limit of 512MB per file. 
  • File Formats: More than 20 different file formats can be uploaded and analyzed by the AI chatbot. For a complete list, please refer to the FAQ page for the Clarity platform.  
  • Chat History: Your chat history and responses are stored in the left-hand chat history panel of the AI chatbot interface. You also have the option to copy the generated response into another document manually. 
  • Updates: Please refer to the Clarity platform page for updates to the Clarity AI chatbot.  

Limitations

  • API Access: Currently, the Clarity platform cannot be interacted with through an API. 
  • Web Browsing: The AI chatbot has no internet browsing. It has a knowledge base it falls back on, which was updated in October 2023. 
  • Speech Capabilities: Currently, the AI chatbot does not support voice communication; it only accepts and outputs text. 
  • Image Generation: The AI chatbot cannot currently create images from text input. However, it can analyze and describe images that you upload. 

Privacy and Protections 

  • Data Security: All your chat data is securely encrypted.
  • Data Usage: Your chat data is not used to train the underlying AI models.
  • Data Classification: You can include up to high-risk data in the chatbot. Please refer to Yale’s data classification guide for more details on data classifications.

Accessing the Chatbot 

  1. Go to the Clarity Platform on any browser. 
  2. Current Yale staff, students, and faculty with a Yale email can access and use the AI chatbot at no cost.
  3. Once logged in, you can begin interacting with the AI chatbot by entering your message into the chat window at the bottom of the screen.
  4. For an introduction to the Clarity platform, please refer to our training video that guides you through the AI chatbot.