Artificial Intelligence
Introduction
On this page we have collated examples of generative AI tools that have recently been developed with study and research in mind. When selecting AI tools, it is important to keep in mind whether they meet your needs and the purpose for which you want to use them. It is also important to check with your course coordinator, publisher and/or other partners whether they allow the use of AI tools when preparing material for research or study. Keep in mind the limitations of such tools and also be aware of the copyright, privacy and data retention issues they may cause. Do not proceed in using AI tools to prepare your assignments without doing the necessary research into these considerations first. Please also note the University Library does not currently provide support for the tools listed on this page.
For a comprehensive list of the variety of generative AI tools, services and resources for a wide variety of purposes, including to generate text, images, video, coding, presentations, research, analytics and business, check out All Things AI:
- All Things AIThe Complete Resource Of Artificial Intelligence Tools & Services. Discover the latest Artificial Intelligence tools, services and resources. Also includes a glossary of key terms and concepts related to AI and a guide of how AI can be used in different professions.
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AI tools for study
- ChatGPTChatGPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. It uses a language model to interact with users in a conversational style. The model is trained using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), which makes it possible for ChatGPT to provide detailed human-like, sophisticated text answers that are capable of a wide variety of complex applications, from writing poems to coding. Read the blog from OpenAI for more information and see the screenshot for an example of how ChatGPT generates an answer:
Source: Answer provided by OpenAI's-ChatGPT version 3 on 6 April 2023
- WriteGPTWriteGPT is a prompt assistant, multi-function web extension harnessing ChatGPT on any website. Provides assisted prompt writing and provides a response alongside Google searches. It is also available on mobile.
- ChatPDFChatPDF can summarise and answers questions about PDF documents users upload onto the site, for example, journal articles, presentations, reports, historical documents and research papers. It works by analysing the PDF file to create an index, then it presents relevant paragraphs to a text-generation AI. You can "chat" with the uploaded PDF to ask it to summarise certain paragraphs, clarify meaning or generate a set of study questions, plus more. It is especially helpful for extracting key information from large files.
- ScholarcySimilar to ChatPDF, Scholarcy assists with speeding up the reading and research process. Using deep learning technology, it reads articles, reports, book chapters and other resources, breaking them down into bite-sized sections and highlighting key information such as important findings, limitations, and comparisons with earlier studies. Scholarcy promotes itself primarily as a tool that lets you screen literature quickly and discover how relevant a document is to your research. Requires a paid subscription.
- ExplainpaperExplainpaper is another free, document-explaining AI tool that allows you to upload PDFs and highlight text to generate easy-to-read, jargon free explanations of dense or tricky-to-understand concepts. Its aim to is make academic research easier to understand and operates based on a series of AI algorithms.
Useful links:
- Scholarcy YouTube ChannelWatch tutorial videos of how to use the different features of Scholarly and to get an idea of how AI can be utilised in the research and literature screening process.
- TomeTome promotes itself as an AI storytelling tool, but it is the most effective when used to generate PowerPoint presentations. Simply enter a prompt, and Tome will generate presentation slides on your chosen topic, including text and images. Slides are editable and can be shared.
- Beautiful.AIAnother subscription AI presentation tool, uses a back-end system called DesignerBot to create AI generated presentations that can include figures, tables, infographics, charts and other data. Mostly aimed at businesses, but can create professional looking slides for a variety of contexts. Also includes a separate prompter to created AI generated images.
- DALL-E2DALL-E 2 is an AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language, created by OpenAI who are also responsible for ChatGPT. DALL-E2 can auto-generate images in a variety of styles (e.g. pencil drawing, acrylic painting, photographic), combining concepts, attitudes and styles. Check out the video below for more information and an example of an image generated by DALL-E2.
- CraiyonCraiyon, formerly DALL·E mini, is an AI model that can draw images from any text prompt. Similar in purpose and function as DALL-E2.
Image generated in DALL-E2 on 11 April 2023.
- Image Prompt: "An acrylic oil painting of the Barr Smith Library from the outside".
AI Tools for Research
- Research RabbitResearch Rabbit is a literature review mapping tool and discovery platform for researchers, with the aim of making it easier to discover relevant papers to your research. Essentially, Research Rabbit is like AI-generated citation chaining. It uses AI to recommend similar articles based on an article you initially provide or find, building a collection for you. It also creates a visualisation map of the articles it finds, which mostly come from open sources.
- ElicitElicit uses language models to help automate research workflows, especially literature reviews. Elicit can find relevant papers without a perfect keyword match, summarise takeaways from papers specific to your research question, and extract key information from these papers. While answering questions with research is the main focus of Elicit, there are also other research tasks that help with brainstorming, summarisation, and text classification. Read Elicit's FAQ page for a detailed explanation of how it works and the AI programming behind its operation.
- Semantic ScholarA free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature. Created the the Allen Institute for AI, Semantic Scholar's focus is on "building a better way" to search and discover scientific knowledge. They also support open AI research, distributing open code and datasets and publishing results of their research in natural language processing, machine learning, human computer interaction, and information retrieval.
- Semantic Scholar BlogResearch, news, and announcements from the Semantic Scholar team at AI2
R Discovery is an AI-powered tool that simplifies your literature search. Its advanced algorithms browse through papers from Microsoft Academic, PubMed, PubMed Central, and Crossref to recommend the top scholarly articles in your field of research. Designed to save time and effort, R Discovery lets you keep up with the latest, most relevant research with access to:
- 80mn+ scholarly articles
- 14mn+ authors
- 9mn+ topics
- 32,000+ journals
- 25,000+ institutions
(Source: R Discovery FAQs)
- Iris.AIIris.ai is an AI-powered science assistant that includes a combination of process tools aimed specifically at researchers in the early phase of a new project. Iris.ai helps you to map out an overall landscape around your research challenge (the Explore tool) as well as build a specific reading list covering the papers that you should actually spend time on reading (the Focus tool). Iris.AI is especially helpful for sourcing open access publications.
(Source: Iris.AI FAQs).
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