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Hi I'm Susan from TechSoup. I was wondering when nonprofits should decide that they should opt for a paid version of a generative AI tool versus a free one? What are the differences and how do nonprofits make that decision? Also - how do you load a large doc into a generative AI tool and get a result? For ex, entering an article in and getting a presentation back from the tool?
- Regarding your question about handling a large document in the free version of Copilot with Bing, you can upload the file and then request a summary of the document.
- Its a great question Susan! Paid versions typically will have more features/functions/abilities then their respective free versions. At PJMF, we typically start by doing some simple prototyping with the free versions and move to the paid version as we incorporate the LLM in our products. Typically that will support faster response times, higher capacity (ie: token size, etc), etc. In regards to your second question, most of the newer versions of these LLM's now have mulimodal support (https://openai.com/research/gpt-4, https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs/models-overview). This allows you the ability to now feed in docs, and depending on the use case, generated appropriate responses. At PJMF, we utilize this feature in one of our latest products that's designed to allow funders to perform financial due diligence on nonprofit financial statements (as a part of their risk assessment). We feed the financial docs directly as context to the LLM, and is able to parse through and pull out the necessary financial data points, quite accurately I may add.
- Hello Susan, Depending on what the organization is trying to accomplish the free version is similar to the copilot in Bing where you get basics prompts and at no cost. However, if they are looking to get the integrations into Microsoft 365 applications they will need to convert to the paid option.
- thanks, this is helpful. If I were to put the content, like an outline, into a generative AI tool and ask it to make a presentation in power point from the outline, how would that work and would it be free or would it cost to do this?
- Courtney_Hodge
Microsoft
Hey Susan! Although you can't create a PowerPoint presentation from an outline without the paid version you can use this type of prompt to get a sample of slide topics and bullets: Can you create a slide presentation with topics and bullet points for each slide based on the outline below? [Post your outline here]
- Kim_Brooks_MSPHi Susan! I'm a big fan of free AI tools to gain confidence and familiarity with AI. I think one of the barriers to adoption is lack of understanding of AI's capabilities and free tools can be a great way to build comfort and comprehension. I think any nonprofit can start with free tools while they build skills and capabilities, then start investing in paid tools once they hit the limitations for free tools. Using Copilot in M365 as an example, the interoperability between Excel reports, Powerpoint, Word, Outlook, and Teams is an invaluable upgrade from free genAI content co-creation, to fully fluid workflows between tools. There's a quick guide here on free and low-cost ways to start using GenAI: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/nonprofit-community-blog/ai-for-nonprofits-taking-the-first-steps/ba-p/4064045
- mibradyI would also add that not just existing within the the applications natively but also being able to focus on your organizations resources helped inform and make the responses more focused on your organizations work.
- mibradyHi Susan! Check out the post above from Margaret Farmer. Looks like she is happy to chat.
- my questions are listed in my post. Can she start there with those plz?
