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Tunxis Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)

An evolving guide about Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impacts on higher education, teaching, research, and assignments.

AI Tools for Research

Types of Generative AI


Text Content Creation:

Image Content Creation:

Sound Content Creation:

Coding Creation:

Video Creation:

(List organization sourced from Austin Community Colleges Guide)

 

Research & Academic Focused AI Tools


  • Consensus 
    • Search engine that uses AI to find insights in Research Papers.
  • Avidnote
    • Utilizes AI to facilitate reading research papers, writing, data analysis, and transcription. 
  • Elicit 
    • Searches a database of 200 million academic papers to speed up literature review and analysis. 
  • Iris.ai
    • Focuses on speeding up literature reviews for scientific disciplines. 
  • Kahubi
    • Another tool that assists with summarizing, proofreading, writing, and data analysis. 
  • Perplexity
    • Chatbot-style search engine enhanced with AI. 
  • Research Rabbit
    • "Spotify for papers" with interactive visualization and collaboration. 
  • SciSpace
    • Literature review and AI Copilot that assists with reading and interpreting PDFs the user uploads. 
  • Semantic Scholar 
    • Free, AI-powered research tool focused on scientific literature. 
  • Sourcely
    • Users can paste their essays and AI will help find, summarize, and add credible sources.