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Artificial Intelligence Literacy

Guide to Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy and AI use in research.

AI and Research

AI can be used in the research process but should not be used to produce a final product. Below are some of the aspects of research that AI can help with:

  • Generate ideas and hypotheses
    • Create research questions based on a dataset or topic.
  • Literature review
    • Analyze and summarize literature on a given topic.
  • Data analysis
    • Process and analyze datasets.
  • Experiment design
    • Suggest variables and methods based on provided data.
  • Proof-reading
    • Review spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Source: Rutgers University AI Lib Guide

AI Research Tools

Perplexity

  • Interactive AI chatbot that asks clarifying questions to guide you to the best answer. Includes a list of related questions and references.

Consensus

  • AI-powered search engine that searches over 200 million scientific papers from Semantic Scholar and provides summaries of the top articles it analyzes.

Elicit

  • AI search assistant that helps conduct literature reviews.

Scite

  • AI platform that tells you how many times an article was cited and context of the citation.

Research Rabbit

  • Users can create collections of academic papers so that the algorithm can recommend other relevant articles, then visualizes scholarly networks in graphs.

Scholarcy

  • AI summarization tool that reads research articles, reports, and book chapters and extracts key information to create a summary flashcard identifying study participants, data analyses, main findings, and limitations.

ChatPDF

  • AI chatbot that reads, analyzes, and extracts answers from research papers.

Semantic Scholar

  • AI-powered research extracts meaning and identifys connections from within papers.

Iris.ai

  • AI tool that uses natural language processing and machine learning algorithms to comprehend the context of a research project and suggest pertinent literature.

Scispace

  • AI-driven platform for exploring, understanding, and publishing research papers. It also provides a variety of features such as a manuscript editor, citation generator, plagiarism checker, and an AI copilot to summarize any research paper.

Paper Digest

  • AI-based article summarization service.

You.com

  • A search engine built on artificial intelligence that provides users with a customized search experience while keeping their data 100% private.
Source: Rutgers University AI Lib Guide