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ChatGPT & Generative AI Tools Collaborative Guide: AI Tools for Research

ABOUT THIS GUIDE

This collaborative guide offers an overview of artificial intelligence, including its history, key concepts, and terminology, with a focus on generative AI, its ethical considerations, and its applications in academics.

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Deric Hardy
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AI Tools Used for Academic Research

Generative AI Research Tools and Chatbots

  • Enhance academic discovery by automating literature reviews, summarizing papers, and extracting key insights as large language models (LLMS) with semantic search to workflows for research. 

Benefits:

  • Reduces manual search and research time
  • Improves accessibility to academic knowledge
  • Enhances efficiency in literature analysis
Tool AI Classification Use Case

Elicit

 Generative Tool To extract key information from research papers and create structured summaries.
SciSpace Generative Tool Helps researchers understand complex papers with semantic search.
Consensus Generative Tool

Analyzes scientific papers and provides evidence-bases answers.
ChatGPT Generative Chatbot Enhances research through searching for and summarizing literature streamlining workflows.

Non-Generative AI Research Tools

  • Focus on citation-based discovery to help academic researchers find relevant studeis through network mapping and relationship analysis. These tools do not generate content (e.g. ChatGPT) but visualize connections between existing academic papers to enhance literature exploration.

Benefits:

  • Performs efficient literature discovery
  • Visualizes research connections to show trends and related studies
  • Utilizes structured and reliable studies focusing on peer-reviewed literature
Name AI Classification      Use Case
Litmaps Non-Generative Uses citation networks to visually map academic papers, helping researchers discover connections and accelerate literature reviews.
Connect Papers Non-Generative Generates visual graphs of related academic papers based on co-citation and bibliographic coupling, making literature exploration more intuitive.
ResearchRabbit Non-Generative

Provides AI-powered paper discovery, citation network visualization, and personalized recommendations to streamline literature reviews.
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