Library Guides: AI and Academic Research: A Guide: AI Tools

AI Conversational Models

GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) models that are trained on large amounts of text data to learn language patterns, facts, and various types of knowledge. These tools are designed to "generate" content or output; they are not research databases.

ChatGPT (OpenAI) OpenAI's disclaimer: "ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info."
Claude (Anthrop/c) Anthropic's disclaimers: "Claude may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information, or produce offensive or biased content. Claude is not intended to give advice, including legal, financial, & medical advice. Don’t rely on our conversation alone without doing your own independent research."
Copilot (Microsoft) Microsoft's Disclaimer: "Copilot uses AI. Check for mistakes."
Gemini (Google) Gemini's Disclaimer: "Gemini can make mistakes, so double-check it"

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Perplexity AI (Perplexity)
Perplexity AI functions as an advanced search engine, combining AI language models with real-time web crawling capabilities. Unlike traditional search engines that provide a list of links, Perplexity delivers concise, summarized answers to queries by synthesizing information from multiple authoritative sources across the internet. Answers include inline citations and footnotes linking to original sources, allowing users to verify information and explore topics further. Ask Perplexity about its disclaimers.

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DebunkBot: Conspiratorial Conversations
A chatbot designed by researchers to "very effectively persuade” users to stop believing unfounded conspiracy theories.

AI Tools for Academic Research

A selective list of free, freemium, and premium Ai-based research tools that you may consider using to support your work at specific moments in the research process, each tool approaches one or more aspect of research uniquely.

Assistant (by Scite_) Ask simple questions and get reliable answers from the full-texts of millions of research articles
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Consensus An academic search engine, powered by AI, but grounded in scientific research. Goal: to surface the most relevant papers using topic-level and paper-level insights. Everything is connected to real research papers.
Elicit Automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings.

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Boodlebox GenAI that helps faculty and students prepare for class efficiently, teach & learn responsible AI collaboratively, and assess assignments accurately to enhance learning outcomes.
ChatPDF An AI for analyzing PDFs that you upload to their server. Summarize and answer questions for free, up to two PDFs per day.
Connected Papers Explore academic papers in a visual graph
Docalysis AI-powered answers for your PDF documents
Explainpaper Upload a paper, highlight confusing text, get an explanation.
genei Automatically summarize background reading and produce blogs, articles, and reports.
Grammarly Responsible AI that ensures your writing and reputation shine
Humata AI Chat your way through long documents. Command our PDF AI to summarize for you.
Inciteful Build a network of academic papers and we'll analyze the network to help you discover the most relevant literature.
Iris.ai A researcher workspace: a comprehensive platform for all your research processing: Smart search and a wide range of smart filters, reading list analysis, auto-generated summaries, autonomous extraction and systematizing of data.
Litero.ai AI co-writer that helps students research, write, paraphrase and cite.
Litmaps Find relevant papers. Organize your research. Stay up-to-date
NotebookLM (Google) Collaborate with a virtual research assistant. When you upload the documents that are central to your projects, NotebookLM instantly becomes an expert in the information that matters most to you.
Numerous.AI An AI tool designed to work with spreadsheets.
Open Knowledge Maps Map a research topic using AI.
R Discovery R Discovery hosts content from top aggregators like PubMed, PubMed Central, CrossRef, Unpaywall, Open Alex and top academic research publications, including Wiley, Elsevier, Springer Nature, IOP, SAGE, Taylor & Francis, NEJM, Emerald Publishing, BMJ, Karger, Underline.io and more.
ResearchRabbit A discovery app to search for papers and authors, monitor new literature, visualize research landscapes, and collaborate with colleagues.
Semantic Scholar A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature
Scholarcy An AI-powered article summarizer
Scispace AI Chat for scientific PDFs
Visus Train your own ChatGPT AI to provide quick and accurate responses to any question you may have about your uploaded documents.

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Text AI Tools

Otter.ai Get transcripts, automated summaries, action items, and chat with Otter to get answers from your meetings.
Quillbot A suite of AI tools to paraphrase, check grammar, summarize, cite, and translate.

Accessibility: Translations and Transcriptions

Google Translate
Translate text, images, documents, and websites.
Whisper (OpenAI)
A a neural net that "approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition"
ChatGPT (OpenAI)
Use a prompt such as "Translate [text to translate] to [target language]."

Browser-Based Tools

Arc (A browser with AI built-in)
Edge Browser (Microsoft) Users of this browser, when paired with Copilot, can summarize YouTube videos within the browser)

Comparative Tools

Chatbot Arena Compare and rate chatbots. Who has the better LLM?
Poe Talk to ChatGPT, GPT-4o, Claude 3 Opus, DALLE 3, and millions of others - all on Poe.

Coding and Developer Tools

AgentGPT
Allows users to configure and deploy Autonomous AI agents.
Auto-GPT
Our platform empowers you to create intelligent assistants that streamline your digital workflow, enabling you to dedicate more time to innovative and impactful pursuits.
Blackbox.AI
Each time you have a coding question, send it to blackbox and you can judge the quality for the answer.
Code Llama
Generate and optimize code.
GitHub Copilot
Generate and optimize code.
Hugging Face
The platform where the machine learning community collaborates on models, datasets, and applications.
Phind
Phind is an AI-powered search engine designed specifically for developers and professionals in the tech field.