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Artificial Intelligence : AI Tools

AI Research Tools

Name What It Does Is it Free?
Connected Papers Connected Papers focuses on the relationships between research papers to find similar research. You can also use Connected Papers to get a visual overview of an academic field. Free with Paid Subscriptions Available
Consensus Consensus uses large language models (LLMs) to help researchers find and synthesize answers to research questions, focusing on the scholarly authors' findings and claims in each paper. Free with Paid Subscriptions Available
Elicit Elicit uses LLMs to find papers relevant to your topic by searching through papers and citations and extracting and synthesizing key information. Free with Paid Subscriptions Available
Keenious Keenious is a recommendation tool for academic articles and topics based on papers you upload Free with Paid Subscriptions Available
Research Rabbit Research Rabbit is a citation-based mapping tool that focuses on the relationships between research works. It uses visualizations to help researchers find similar papers and other researchers in their field. Currently Free
scite scite has a suite of products that help researchers develop their topics, find papers, and search citations in context (describing whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence) No
Scholarcy Scholarcy summarizes key points and claims of articles into 'summary cards' that researchers can read, share, and annotate when compiling research on a given topic. Free with Paid Subscriptions Available
Semantic Scholar Semantic Scholar (which supplies underlying data for many of the other tools on this list) provides brief summaries ('TLDR's) of the main objectives and results of papers. Currently Free
Undermind An AI research assistant that works with you to refine your research question and find relevant papers. Free with Paid Subscriptions Available

AI Large Language Models (LLMs)

Name What It Does Is it Free?
ChatGPT While the AI chatbot ChatGPT is typically thought of as a writing tool, it can be used in the initial idea development phase of research. (Remember to always look up claims and sources to verify their credibility). Free Version Available 
Claude An AI-powered chatbot trained by Anthropic using Constitutional AI to be safe, accurate, and secure. It can be used in developmental stages of research for brainstorming and data analysis. Free with Paid Subscriptions Available
Gemini Designed by Google, Gemini is an AI-powered chatbot that responds to natural language queries with relevant information. As with ChatGPT, researchers can use Gemini to aid in topic development and initial source discovery. Free with Paid Subscriptions Available
Perplexity Using LLMs, Perplexity is a search engine that provides AI-generated answers, including citations which are linked above the summaries. Free with Paid Subscriptions Available