Commercially available Artificial Intelligence tools can accomplish a wide variety of tasks and have different features to them. Depending on the business model of the tool, each service could cost a monthly subscription fee or charge based on interactions with the system using tokens or credits. Many of these AI tools have overlapping features, such as an 'assistant' or summarization as a service. Many of these tools will have .ai website addresses. Be careful of online AI scams which may have all the hallmarks of legitimate tools but exist to steal data. Always ask your instructor what their specific policy is for the use of these AI tools. This guide provides a small sample of those available online.
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Search engine for a wide variety of AI tools which has a customizable search option.
Long list of AI tools from an AI company.
Popular science Forbes article explaining the limitations of Generative AI.
Google based list of AI tools that they offer for free.
Generative AI are tools which are used to create some sort of content. These tools are usually utilized using some sort of prompt which it then incorporates into what it is generating. Video generation takes more resources compared to text or image generations. For a more in-depth look at how Generative AI works, check out this resource from IBM.
AI Research assistant tools are ones which assist in finding academic sources for projects. They come with a variety of features such as recommendation of articles, summarization, or visualization. Some possible use cases for these types of tools can include doing literature reviews, citation management, and more. Many of these tools will have Zotero integration. For AI citation creators double check to ensure that it is generating the citation correctly.
