AI TO TRY
ChatGPT 3.5 (Trained on data up to mid-2021.
ChatGPT Plus (monthly fee)
Bing Chat Free, built on GPT-4, Use the EDGE browser or Bing mobile app
Bard (Google). Free, connected to the Internet
Claude 2 Anthropic. Free
Perplexity AI Free, built on GPT 3.5 and GPT-4. Connected to the Internet. You can use without creating an account.
The above list adapted with permission from University of Arizona Libraries Beyond ChatGPT guide
Young, Alexander (2023, March 19). The 10 Best Free AI Writing Tools. A round-up of some free writing tools as of March 2023. Includes tools for writing blog posts, essays, books.
DeepL Write (Beta). Fix grammar, punctuation, rephrase entire sentences, choose tone of voice. Free for 30 days
Other DeepL products include DeepL Translator. Translate text in 31 languages. Translate files .pdf, docx. pptx. Free versopm" 3.000
characters, 3 documents a month, etc. check pricing for premium access
Google Labs. In beta.. Provides writing assistance in Google Docs and Gmail. Go to https://labs.withgoogle.com to sign up for access
Jasper "Improve your copy, read and write content in over 29 languages, write long content like blog posts, reports, emails, stories. Free to try.
MoonBeam. “Never write from scratch again” https://www.gomoonbeam.com/ [No longer has a free option] ]Create a paper step-by-step using MoonBeam by starting a topic, providing keywords, creating an outline, etc.. You can generate casual, professional or “different” styles. (Scroll down the main screen for examples).
QuillBot Use QuillBot to paraphrase your text using one of seven paraphrasing modes including standard, formal, creative, etc. See pricing at https://quillbot.com/premium along with the limitations of the free version.
WriteSonic /Chatsonic SIgn up and try it out with 2500 free words. Features: AI article writing; paraphrasing tool; text expander; article summarizer; AI article ideas, etc.
Consensus (Beta) Ask a question and get conclusions from research papers - with links to the papers. Ask about relationships between concepts. Ask a simple yes/no question. Ask about the effects of a concept. Topics range from biology to social sciences. More information about best practices.
CoPilot. (Typeset.io) Introducing Copilot: Your AI assistant that helps explain papers. Uses GPT-3 to explain papers from a repository of 270 million + papers. You can also upload a PDF and have it summarize the paper’s contents. Also, try searching for a topic such as (online learning copyright) and check out the results. You can limit by year of publication, type of publication, and other parameters. https://typeset.io/
ChatGPT for Google A Google browser extension that provides search results from ChatGPT along with search results from Google. chatgpt4google.com [Keep in mind that ChatGPT can produce errors of fact!]
ChatGPT for Search Engines: An browser extension that displays the ChatGPT response alongside Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo search results. Works with Chrome or FireFox or Edge. It's free.
Elicit.org – Sign up for a free account. You can “ask a research question” or go to “tasks” – and in “tasks” you can brainstorm a research question. Elicit will give you research questions based on your input. Pick a question – and go back to the Elicit search page and type in the question you selected. You will get a list of papers related to your topic – and you can export the list – and more! https://elicit.org (Also listed below). Elicit draws from the Semantic Scholar (https://www.semanticscholar.org/) database.
Source: Bilal, M. Twitter thread || Tutorial for Elicit by Mustaq Bilal on Twitter || Caveats from Anna Mills: Teaching AI Critical Literacy with Elicit.org (YouTube)
Perplexity. Ask anything. Perplexity AI is "an answer engine that aims to deliver accurate answers to questions using large language models" using OpenAI GPT 3.5 and Microsoft Bing. When asked "What is ChatGPT" perplexity provided an answer and listed five sources. (The librarian in me suggests that you double-check results!) Perplexity has an iPhone app that includes voice chat. https://www.perplexity.ai/
Talk to Books Browse passages from books using experimental AI. It "enables an AI to find statements that look like probable responses to your input" from among 100,000 books. An experiment from Google AI
Cariyon: Cariyon is ad-supported https://www.craiyon.com/ and the ads are numerous. Formerly DALL-E Mini
Critbot.AI; If you are willing to upload one of your works of art, you can get a critique. Read more.
DALL-E: You can try DALL-E 2 for free https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ | (You get 50 free credits during your first month, and 15 free credits will refill every month after that.) For the most up-to-date pricing information see https://openai.com/api/pricing/ || Ars Technica article explains the credits, etc.)
Playground AI "Make any image you can imagine with just text.
Connected Papers. Get a visual graph of the ways research papers are connected - Create a bibliography. | Tutorial by Mustaq Bilal
Elicit (also mentioned above) 👍 | Tutorial by Mustaq Bilal
Inciteful Built on open scholarly data. Build a network of papers. Includes a literature connector. | Tutorial by Mustaq Bilal
LitMaps | Tutorial by Mushtaq Bilal
Research Rabbit | Step by Step Guide by Mushtaq Bilal
MusicLM (AI text to music generator) Google's AI Test Kitchen.
Riffusion. (AI text to music generator). When you figure this one out, let me know!
SOUNDRAW. Create music for free - Monthly charge for music you'd like to monetize.
AI for PowerPoint
Go to https://app.educationcopilot.com and sign up with an email account. Then go to Workshop. Then pick PowerPoint Generator and put in your prompt. It will generate a PowerPoint for you.
Read Pilot "Read Pilot analyzes online articles and generates Q&A cards for you."
Humata.ai Sign up (for free for now), upload a PDF, and ask questions about the PDF. Humata will provide an answer and indicate which pages of the PDF were used for the answer.
AI for translation
You can demo Meta's AI powered multlingual speech and text translator - Here's how
Some more tools
Under development - An AI teaching Assistant - a project from Brandon Garcia for Miami Hack Week, Take a topic from the standard curriculum and let the AI create lesson plans, Google slides, quizzes and even an audio presentation. Example: Ancient Egypt.. See more at https://twitter.com/__BCG__/status/1623074131770998784 (February 2023).
Chat with a webpage https://b7labs.co/
Chat with a PDF https://www.chatpdf.com/
ChatPDF https://www.chatpdf.com/ Pathak, K. (2023, April 21). Chat with AI to summarize obnoxiously long PDFs. LifeHacker. (The article also describes some ways to use Bing to chat with your PDFs)
BROWSER EXTENSIONS FOR CHATGPT - FOR CHROME https://beebom.com/best-chatgpt-chrome-extensions/amp/
YouTube Summary: A Chrome extension
From Rowan Cheung on Twitter:. How I turn YouTube videos into short narrated summaries using AI. Tool: Video Highlight