Frequently Asked Questions
Aggie AI is UC Davis’s growing ecosystem of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and services, designed especially for our students, faculty, and staff. An AI service hub in the making, Aggie AI empowers students, faculty, and staff to explore, learn, use, and even develop AI tools that will have a lasting impact.
Rocky is your AI assistant for everything Aggie - your personal, interactive guide to navigating all the ins and outs of UC Davis. For more information, see: https://iet.ucdavis.edu/aggie-ai/rocky.
You will need a UC Davis computing account and be part of the beta pilot to access the platform. Don't worry, we are expanding access to Rocky every month! Go to https://chat.ucdavis.edu. On the resulting window, click UC Login. On the next screen, log into your UC Davis computing account. You will be redirected to the chat window. Use the chat throughout your day.
Aggie AI is UC Davis’s growing ecosystem of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and services, designed especially for our students, faculty, and staff. An AI service hub in the making, Aggie AI empowers students, faculty, and staff to explore, learn, use, and even develop AI tools that will have a lasting impact. Rocky is one of the services available from Aggie AI.
Aggie AI runs on a large language model (LLM) derived from OpenAI (the makers of ChatGPT) but was especially trained on data sources specific to UC Davis. Moreover, it is continuously updated with new information, providing you with the latest updates from UC Davis (unlike other AI chat tools which may reference older information). When you use Rocky, your questions and your data will not be used to train other AI models.
Rocky is intended for the entire UC Davis community. Our teams are constantly optimizing its features and growing its user base. In winter 2025, Rocky is available to all faculty and staff. If you are a student who would like to use Rocky, please reach out to iet-cloud-services@ucdavis.edu and let us know!
Rocky is not yet connected to personalized results and providing personal information won’t help it give better answers at this time. While it’s OK to provide Rocky with information you’d normally share with a classmate or general administrator at the University, putting anything more sensitive than that isn’t covered by the Rocky Terms and Conditions.
The term "in beta" typically refers to a stage in software development where a product is still being tested and refined before its final release. During the beta phase, the software is usually made available to a limited audience outside the development team to identify any bugs, gather user feedback, and make improvements. This phase is crucial for ensuring the product is stable, user-friendly, and meets the needs of its intended audience.
Information that can be classified as P4 is not allowed when using Rocky. Other information that is not allowed includes:
- Social security numbers
- Health information
- Other highly sensitive personal information
Please refer to the Aggie AI Terms for additional details, as well as the data protection levels (P1-P4) as outlined in IS-3.
As with all generative AI and large language models, Rocky could get things wrong. It’s been trained on University information and as a result, tends to be more accurate than other sources, but you cannot expect 100% accuracy. Rocky provides you with links and sources to verify its information. Please double check any important information.
You can get to Rocky by going to https://chat.ucdavis.edu/. You’ll need a UC Davis computing account to log in.
- Go to https://chat.ucdavis.edu/
- On the resulting window, hit the button that says UC Login.
- On the next screen, log into your UC Davis computing account. You will be redirected to the chat window.
Since Rocky uses single sign-on to authenticate, you’ll have to log out of your computing account to log out of Rocky. A logout button is on our roadmap, but we’re still in beta!
Rocky is in closed beta. We have a Slack channel (#aggie-ai-user-community) for asking the development team questions, and collect feedback at regular intervals.
That’s Rocky. He’s new here but learns quickly and would love to help the UC Davis community with any info they might need.