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

Generative AI Chat Tools

AgentGPT Allows users to configure and deploy Autonomous AI agents.
Auto-GPT An open source AI project
Gemini (Google)
ChatGPT (OpenAI)
Claude (Anthrop/c)
Copilot (Microsoft)
Perplexity AI
Phind

Academic Research AI Tools

Assistant (by Scite) Ask simple questions and get reliable answers from the full-texts of millions of research articles
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
Consensus AI search engine for research
Docalysis AI-powered answers for your PDF documents
Elicit Automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings.
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.
Scispace AI Chat for scientific PDFs
Scholarcy An AI-powered article summarizer
Semantic Scholar A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature

Image Creation Tools

Adobe Firefly Use generative AI and simple text prompts to create the highest quality output — beautiful images, text effects, and fresh color palettes. Make all-new content from reference images and explore more possibilities, more quickly.
DALL·E 3 (OpenAI) An AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
DreamStudio (stability.ai)
Leonardo.ai
Midjourney Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species. We are a small self-funded team focused on design, human infrastructure, and AI.
Sora (Open AI) Sora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions. (Not yet public)

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

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.