Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Tools
About the AI Research Tools Table
The resources described in the AI Research Tools Table represent an incomplete list of tools specifically geared towards exploring and synthesizing research. The AI Research Tools Table is designed to educate on AI tools and is not intended as an endorsement. Students should consult with their instructors regarding the use of AI tools in their coursework.
For more information on AI tools, please see Ithaka S+R's Generative AI Product Tracker which lists tools by their primary purposes and includes pricing information, as well as updates on the tools' features and limitations. Additionally, There's An AI For That is a free AI aggregator—search the database to find the best AI apps or tools for any use case.
UB AI Tools
The following are AI tools, or resources with an AI research component, that are available for UB faculty, staff, and student use.
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| An AI-powered chatbot grounded in up-to-date information, Copilot can help you find answers and create content. Copilot is the only AI chatbot approved by UBIT, and it runs off of CPT-4o. Be sure to log in with your UB credentials. Your queries will not train AI, and you can use Copilot to summarize web pages, PDFs, and other documents; craft and polish your writing; create images for articles, social media, and more. Be aware that you should never input Category 1 data. | Free through UB. | |
| Ovid is a medical research platform that provides access to biomedical databases. Ovid AI Summary Beta provides concise summaries of articles based on their HTML full text. The AI Article Summary is designed to highlight the key elements of each article, making it easier for users to quickly understand the main points and key takeaways. You will find these summaries on the HTML Article Full-text page. Initially, this beta feature will be available on proprietary Lippincott titles on the Ovid platform. You can find the list of these titles here. | Free through UB. | |
| Statista is a global business data platform providing insights and facts across industries and countries. The Research AI tool does not replace Statista's existing search and browse features but instead should be treated as an experimental new feature that you can use alongside Statista's established features. The tool operates only over Statista content, including descriptions and datasets from all available statistics; information from topic pages, report pages, industry pages, and infographics; and key findings from Market Insights. It also presents the top 10 most relevant charts or reports, helping users quickly find the most useful data. In addition, it suggests related questions to explore the topic further and offers links to deeper insights and reports. | Free through UB. | |
| VisualDx is a clinical decision support tool with images of medical conditions and a differential diagnosis builder. The DermExpert AI feature is available only in the app. Start by selecting “Analyze a photo.” Capture the image at point of care. The photo is not stored anywhere, on the local device or VisualDx drives. It is 100% HIIPA compliant. VisualDx then analyzes the photo. The most likely lesion types are suggested. To view results, choose one or select an alternate lesion type. Input patient demographics, how much of the body is affected, where the affected areas are, and details about the patient (fever, itch, appearance, onset). Then review results. | Free through UB. | |
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Covidence is a web-based platform that streamlines the process of conducting evidence synthesis projects. The Machine Learning feature streamlines the title and abstract screening process by analyzing past screening behavior to predict the relevancy of studies awaiting review. The relevance sort order will change after at least 25 studies are marked as included or excluded, with at least two of each. As more items are screened, the system’s ability to make predictions improves. Be sure to sort by Most relevant if you plan to take advantage of this feature. See the Systematic Reviews in the Health Sciences guide for more information on systematic and scoping reviews. |
Free through UB. |
General Use AI Tools
The following popular AI tools are available online to find answers and create content. They pull data from the internet and popular sources to generate responses.
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| ChatGPT is a multimodal generative artificial intelligence (genAI) chatbot developed by OpenAI. The tool is trainted with large amounts of data in order to estalish patterns which then allows it to generate responses based on prompts inputted by a user. Use ChatGPT to brainstorm a research topic, create a paper outline, correct spelling and grammatical errors, and identify keywords to search in library databases. | Free basic search access and monthly payment options for expanded access. | |
| Claude is an online genAI chatbot. Unlike other tools, Claude emphasizes its ethical prinicples to protect privacy and avoiding harmful behavoirs around AI bias. Claude includes a langauge translationtool and supports 24+ languages. Use Claude for coding, language translation, and document analysis. | Free basic search access and monthly payment options for expanded access. | |
| Gemini is a group of web-based AI-chatbots. Users can input text, audio, image, and video as prompts to help the tool create a response. The deep research feature can synthesize multiple sources from the internet into an in-depth report. Gemini currently draws from popular sources as well as open access scholarly websites. Use Gemini for multimodal communications, to brainstorm a research topic, and to search for popular sources. | Free basic search access and monthly payment options for expanded access. | |
| Perplexity is a web search engine powered by GPT-4 and pulls information from multiple sources on the internet to generate responses. It provides a short summary along with cited references from where it drew the information. Searching with Perplexity Academic will create a more focused search exploring academic literature. Use Perplexity to explore a topic and search for sources. | Free basic search access and monthly payment options for expanded access. |
Literature Discovery AI Tools
The following AI tools are available online to search and map the scientific literature.
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Consensus is an online academic-focused search engine that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to search for scientific articles indexed by Semantic Scholar. When prompted by a Yes/No query, Consensus features a "Consensus Meter" tool which uses a scale to analyze agreement or disagreement in the scientific literature. Search results in Consensus indicate study design and citation counts at a glance. For articles with a full text PDF available, Consensus has an "Ask this paper" tool to help summarize results. |
Free basic search access and monthly payment options for expanded access. | |
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Based off systematic review methodologies, Elicit is an online tool that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate researcher workflows and streamline literature review processes. When prompted by an empirical research question, Elicit pulls from publications indexed by Semantic Scholar to yield back search results with relevant papers, summaries, and information extraction. Once a result is selected, Elicit can extract additional information from the text, including summaries, citations, trustworthiness, and even possible critiques. See this PMC article for more information. See the Systematic Reviews in the Health Sciences guide for more information on systematic and scoping reviews. |
Free basic search access and monthly payment options for expanded access. | |
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Inciteful is an online citation-based literature mapping platform that indexes articles from OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef, and consists of two tools to help connect users to related works.
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ResearchRabbit is an online citation-based literature mapping tool that creates visualizations of related of scientific works and scholars. Users add "seed articles" (i.e., example papers) into a "Collection" and from that data, ResearchRabbit uses articles indexed from Semantic Scholar to create an interactive visualization of related works and authors. Users can save related works, follow to further discovery, or create an alert for updates. See this PMC article for more information. |
Free. |