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Research Support Guide: Artificial Intelligence Tools

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Chat GPT

What is CHAT GPT

Chatbot GPT (Chat GPT) is a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) language model developed by OpenAI. GPT stands for "Generative Pre-trained Transformer." It is based on the transformer architecture, which is a deep learning model designed for natural language processing tasks.

The "Generative" aspect means that Chat GPT is capable of generating human-like text based on the patterns and knowledge it has learned during training. It can produce coherent responses to user input and hold conversations on a wide range of topics.

"Pre-trained" indicates that Chat GPT has been trained on a massive amount of diverse text data from the internet, allowing it to learn grammar, syntax, and semantic relationships. This pre-training helps it gain a general understanding of language before fine-tuning on specific tasks or domains.

"Transformer" refers to the architecture that underlies the model, which is highly effective at capturing long-range dependencies in text and has been instrumental in improving the performance of language models.

Overall, Chat GPT is designed to engage in natural and dynamic conversations with users, making it useful for a variety of applications such as customer support, chat services, language translation, and more.

Uses:-

  • Provide insight to a topic.
  • Generate ideas
  • Design a game. 
  • Create a virtual assistant. 
  • Host a debate.
  • Easy Recipe Ideas. 
  • Write a song or poem.
  • Write code
  • Translation

and more.


Elicit

What is Elicit?

Elicit is a research assistant using language models like GPT-3 to automate parts of researchers’ workflows. Currently, the main workflow in Elicit is Literature Review. If you ask a question, Elicit will show relevant papers and summaries of key information about those papers in an easy-to-use table.

How do people use Elicit?

As of early 2022, Elicit’s users are primarily researchers (students and researchers in academia, at independent organizations, or operating independently). They find Elicit most valuable for finding papers to cite and defining research directions.

Some of our most engaged researchers report using Elicit to find initial leads for papers, answer questions, and get perfect scores on exams. One researcher used a combination of Elicit Literature Review, Rephrase, and Summarization tasks to compile a literature review for publication.

With the Elicit Literature Review workflow, you can:

  • Find relevant papers 
  • Filter papers according to topic
  • Explore paper contents
  • Organise literature
  • Upload papers to Elicit.
  • Save & export your work.

Your “Starred” page houses queries with starred results so you can review them later. You can also download a CSV or .bib file to import into reference managers like Zotero.

The other “Tasks” in Elicit include Elicit & user-created research tasks that don't exist anywhere else. These tasks can help you brainstorm research questions, summarize paragraphs, and rephrase snippets of text.


Google Bard

Bard can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. It is still under development, but it has learned to perform many kinds of tasks, including:

  • Brainstorming ideas, developing a plan, or finding different ways to get things done.
  • Getting a quick, easy to understand summary of more complex topics.
  • Creating first drafts of outlines, emails, blog posts, poems, and much more.
  • Translating between 46 languages.
  • Answering your questions in an informative way, even if they are open ended, challenging, or strange.

Bard is still under development, so it may not always be accurate or appropriate. However, it is a powerful tool that can help you with a wide range of tasks.

 


Research Rabbit

  • Upload papers to Research Rabbit
  • Searcheable database
  • Summarises papers
  • Show connections of papers through visualization map
  • Reference generator.
  • Export citations 

 


Scispace Copilot

  • Upload your papers to Scispace.
  • Summarises texts and papers
  • Explains diagrams 
  • Explains equations
  • Searchable database
  • Paraphrases 
  • Generates references

 


Quillbot

  • Paraphrases
  • Summarize
  • Citation generator

 


Rayyan

  • Specifically purposed for systematic reviews
  • Collaborate in systematic reviews
  • Upload references
  • Deletes duplicates
  • Summarises

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