Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Guide

• A selective list of generative AI tools for text & images. Most of these tools require one to create a user account and some require a paid subscription.

Large Language Models: built on a massive amount of text. These tools can generative, summarize, predict and translate almost any kind of text.

• Copilot (Microsoft)

• ChatGPT

• Bard (Google's chat based AI tool) & Bing AI Chat bot

• Elicit: The AI Research Assistant 

• Perplexity AI

• Futurepedia: directory of AI tools; updated daily

• There's an AI for That: an aggregator of AI tools 

Text to Image tools:

• DALLE-2

• MidJourney

Known issues with these tools to consider:

• built-in bias

• sources are not cited or are inaccurately cited

• fabricated information

• cannot retrieve the same text or information again

• security and privacy: all search prompts are added to the massive text stored in AI tools