Research Guides: Artificial Intelligence: ChatGPT and Beyond: AI to Try

Try out some AI tools

AI for writing

Claude.ai - can perform complex cognitive tasks, transcribe and analyze images, generate code, and translate between languages.

ChatGPT You can try ChatGPT for free as of the writing of this piece. https://chat.openai.com/ Look for the “Try me” button. Sign up. You can put in a prompt and then ask for changes in “conversation” with the AI. This is the AI that has been getting a lot of recent attention.

Website So Simple. (2022, December 22). How to use Chat GPT for writing: In-depth tutorial with examples. [Video]. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFHojcVaV9c

Llama 2 - https://www.llama2.ai/ - Meta's Chat service

Gemini - "a conversational Ai tool by Google. Formerly Google Bard. Advanced version free for 2 months

MoonBeam. “Never write from scratch again” https://www.gomoonbeam.com/ Create a paper step-by-step using MoonBeam by starting a topic, providing keywords, creating an outline, etc. Currently, the price is $249/year - (January 2024]

Rewind - - a dedicated AI writing Assistant. Free version and a Pro version ($228/yr; $29/mo) Currently only available for Apple products "Rewind works by capturing what you read in Safari and importing your screenshots. This lets you leverage the power of AI to ask Rewind any question about anything you've seen, including summarizing for you."

AI for search – and for research suggestions

Bing's CoPilot - Microsoft's version of an AI assistant

ChatGPT for Google A Google browser extension that provides search results from ChatGPT along with search results from Google. chatgpt4google.com [Keep in mind that ChatGPT can produce errors of fact!]

Elicit.org – Sign up for a free account. You can “ask a research question” or go to “tasks” – and in “tasks” you can brainstorm a research question. Elicit will give you research questions based on your input. Pick a question – and go back to the Elicit search page and type in the question you selected. You will get a list of papers related to your topic – and you can export the list – and more! https://elicit.org (Also listed below)

Source: Bilal, M. twitter thread at https://twitter.com/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/1607347761594175490

Tutorial for Elicit by Mustaq Bilal https://twitter.com/mushtaqbilalphd/status/1608375550304976899?s=66&t=EPChogjYAMjuOcNR-C7QtQ

Perplexity. https://perplexity.ai (Beta) Ask anything. Perplexity AI is "an answer engine that aims to deliver accurate answers to questions using large language models" using OpenAI GPT 3.5 and Microsoft Bing. (The librarian in me suggests that you double-check results) https://perplexity.ai

SciSpace. (Typeset.io) Introducing Copilot: Your AI assistant that helps explain papers. Uses GPT-3 to explain papers from a repository of 270 million + papers. You can also upload a PDF and have it summarize the paper’s contents. Also, try searching for a topic such as (online learning copyright) and check out the results. You can limit by year of publication, type of publication, and other parameters. https://typeset.io/

AI for image creation

Craiyon: Craiyon is ad-supported https://www.craiyon.com/ and the ads are numerous. Formerly DALL-E Mini

DALL-E: You can try DALL-E2 for free https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ (You get 50 free credits during your first month, and 15 free credits will refill every month after that.) Ars Technica article explains the credits, etc. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/openai-image-generator-dall-e-now-available-without-waitlist/ )

Image Creator (Microsoft Bing). You'll need to create an account.

MidJourney - "Easily turn your ideas into stunning visuals using the Imagine AI art generator. Just enter your text, pick a style, and see your imagination come alive!"