Research & Reference Management Tools
ResearchRabbit: An AI tool for streamlining academic research, allowing users to create collections, visualize related papers, and stay updated with new research.
Elicit by Ought: Retrieves and organizes academic sources based on research questions, generating literature review matrices from provided resources.
Connected Papers: Facilitates the exploration of academic papers in specific fields using visual graphs to discover new research.
Semantic Scholar: A free AI tool for academic research in sciences, offering personalized profiles and article recommendations.
Scholarcy: An AI-driven online summarizer that rapidly reads research articles, reports, and book chapters, breaking them down into concise sections for quick assessment. It identifies key information, creates summary flashcards, and links to cited sources, streamlining the research process.
Writing Tools
Grammarly: A comprehensive writing tool offering grammar correction, clarity enhancement, and tone refinement. Available in free and premium versions.
WordTune: This AI tool improves sentence phrasing in real-time, enhancing the clarity and appeal of your writing.
QuillBot: Specializes in paraphrasing and rephrasing text, with adjustable modes for different writing styles.
Rytr: An AI writing assistant that helps in creating various content types quickly, offering customization options.
ProWritingAid: A paid service that combines AI analysis with human editing insights, offering real-time writing feedback and improvement suggestions.
Image Generation Tools
Stable Diffusion Online: a latent text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo-realistic images given any text input,.
Midjourney: Midjourney is an AI-based platform that generates images from text descriptions. It is known for its ability to create a wide range of visual content, from realistic images to abstract art, based on user prompts.
ProWritingAid: an AI web application utilizing natural language to generate images
Video Generation Tools
InVideo: The text-to-video feature enables AI-powered text-to-speech and video creation from text files like blogs. The free version includes video templates, a basic media library, and AI script generation, but does not allow video export.
Synthesia: This AI video creation tool offers a variety of video templates, diverse stock avatars, text-to-voice in 120+ languages, and customization with external content. Only one free video can be made before a paid subscription is needed.
Canva: Canva's Magic Design, part of its Magic tools, lets users easily create videos from text descriptions and uploaded images. The university offers campus-wide access to Canva.
Voice and Audio Generation Tools
OtterAI: An AI assistant for meetings that records audio, takes notes, captures slides automatically, and produces summaries.
PlayHT: An AI text-to-speech and voice generator tool requiring account setup for free usage, which includes cloud storage and download of files. The free version allows 5,000 words monthly and offers voice cloning trials, but is limited to non-commercial use and mandates crediting PlayHT. Discounts for students and educators are available for the paid subscription.
MurfAI: This tool converts text into audio speech and creates voice-overs from user-uploaded recordings. The free Open Studio version requires login (no credit card needed) and offers limited features: 10 minutes each for voice generation and audio transcription, with content sharing via links but no download option.
Multi-purpose Chat Tools
ChatGPT: A language-based AI tool, ChatGPT uses a comprehensive dataset and training to respond to user prompts, functioning like a chatbot in interactive dialogues. Beyond generating paragraphs, lists, tables, graphs, and code, it serves as a learning aid by providing explanations, answering questions, and offering educational support. The free version requires account registration, saves projects, allows downloads, and gets regular updates. ChatGPT Plus, the premium version, enhances these capabilities with a more advanced language model for subscribed users.
Poe: Poe.com is a platform similar to ChatGPT, but with a unique feature: it allows users to interact with AI models from various vendors. This provides a diverse range of conversational AI experiences, as users can choose from different AI models based on their preferences or specific needs, each potentially offering different styles, expertise, or functionalities. Poe.com thus serves as a hub for accessing a variety of AI-driven interactions in one place.
PerplexityAI: Perplexity.ai provides a free variant functioning akin to a search engine, yet it delivers comprehensive answers with source references. The coPilot feature, when added, shows the search process steps. A premium version with extra features is also available, and users have the ability to save their responses.
Bing: Microsoft has upgraded its Bing search engine with AI technology, specifically GPT-4, the same system that drives ChatGPT Plus. Users can input text prompts and receive various outputs like paragraphs, code, tables, and graphs. Bing is mostly free to use, but it necessitates a login and the use of the Microsoft Edge browser.
Microsoft Copilot: Microsoft Copilot, integrated with Microsoft 365, is an AI tool that enhances workplace productivity and creativity. It aids in tasks across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, leveraging large language models like GPT-4 for content generation, data analysis, and email summarization.
