Libraries: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools and Resources: Tools

Disclaimer

Generative AI use may not be permitted in every course or assignment. If AI use is not otherwise specified as acceptable by the course instructor or in the assignment instructions or syllabus, students should consult their instructor before using AI generated text or media of any amount in their work. If in doubt, students should always ask the instructor.

If AI use is authorized by your instructor, then when using AI, you must always cite it according to current APA Style.

For more information, please refer to the Saybrook University Guidelines and Procedures on Academic Integrity Relating to Artificial Intelligence (AI).

NOTE: The AI Tools and Resources guide is compiled from a variety of sources and should be used for informational purposes only. While we have diligently chosen content from reputable sources, we cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information provided. Inclusion of a resource in this guide does not constitute an endorsement.

Text and Content Generation

ChatGPT (Open AI)
An artificial intelligence chatbot that uses natural language processing to create humanlike conversational dialogue. Responds to questions and composes written content.
Gemini (Google)
AI model from Google for writing, productivity and creativity. It's a multimodal model in that it can complete complex tasks and operate across and combine different types of information including text, code, audio, image, and video.
Claude (Anthropic)
It is both an AI chatbot and the name for the underlying Large Language Models (LLMs) that power it. Claude is trained to have natural, text-based conversations, and it excels in tasks like summarization, editing, Q&A, decision-making, code-writing, and more.
Copilot (Microsoft)
Copilot is a conversational chat interface that supports Microsoft 365 users. It lets you search for specific information, generate text such as emails and summaries, and create images based on text prompts you write.
Perplexity AI (Perplexity)
An AI chatbot-powered research and conversational search engine that answers queries using natural language predictive text rather than keyword-based search engines. It provides citations for all its results, allowing you to verify the source and credibility of the information you're consuming.
Meta AI (Meta Platforms)
The Meta AI chatbot functions as a versatile AI virtual assistant. Students or researchers needing quick information retrieval can use the Meta AI chatbot to gather data, summarize resources, and act as a study aid to help clarify concepts, solve problems, and provide digestible summaries of complicated topics.

Literature Review and Discovery (Research)

Consensus
Consensus is an academic search engine, powered by AI, but grounded in scientific research. We use language models (LLMs) and purpose-built search technology (Vector search) to surface the most relevant papers. We synthesize both topic-level and paper-level insights. Everything is connected to real research papers.
Elicit
Ask a research question and get back a list of relevant papers from our database of 125 million papers. Researchers use Elicit to speed up a literature review, find papers they cannot find elsewhere, automate systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and learn about a new domain.
Research Rabbit
A free online “citation-based literature mapping tool." It is a visual literature review software mapping tool similar to Spotify. The tool connects your research interests to related articles and authors.
scite.ai
A platform that allows users to see how a publication has been cited, providing the citation context and classification. Researchers can better discover and evaluate scientific articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence.
Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar provides free, AI-driven search and discovery tools, and open resources for the global research community.
We index over 200 million academic papers sourced from publisher partnerships, data providers, and web crawls.
TLDR This
Helps you summarize any piece of text into concise, easy to digest content so you can free yourself from information overload.

Video

Fliki
Fliki is a Text to Speech & Text to Video converter that helps you create audio and video content using AI voices in less than a minute. With Fliki you can convert your blog articles or any text-based content into video, podcasts or audiobooks with voiceovers in a few clicks.
invideoAI
Publish-ready videos with zero video creation skills. Type any topic and invideo AI creates a video with script, visuals, subtitles, voiceover & music.
Lumen5
Lumen5 combines powerful AI with a simple drag-and-drop interface to help you create professional video content in minutes.
Pictory
Pictory AI is a revolutionary artificial intelligence program that allows you to create videos from text. There are several ways to use Pictory, including uploading a video script, blog post, URL, or using a text prompt.

Art and Music

DALL-E 3
DALL-E 3 is a text-to-image model which is built upon DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT. It excels in understanding and translating textual descriptions into highly detailed and accurate images.
NighCafe AI
NightCafe AI is an advanced AI digital art generator, combining artificial intelligence with art to create unique images based on text prompts.
Suno
Suno is a web and app-based, text-to-music generator that can generate full songs in seconds from simple text prompts.
Wonder
Wonder AI Art Generator is a platform that uses AI to create beautiful art in various styles. Users can choose a style, upload their photos or use AI-generated images, and the platform will turn them into art in that chosen style.