Research Guides: AI tools for Research: Assistants (chatbots, mutlipurpose/websearch)

ChatBots

Microsoft Copilot
Available as a part of the University's Microsoft contract.
Perplexity
Perplexity.ai is a conversational search engine designed to provide information through a Chatbot-style interface, Provides links to information.
ChatGPT
Claude
AI Chatbot from Anthropic designed to be ‘helpful, harmless and honest’. Can summarize long text (up to 15,000 words). Doesn't have a fixed dataset like ChatGPT but hasn't got a perfect knowledge of events after 2021.

The generative AI landscape is changing rapidly, and new AI products and tools are being developed and modified frequently. For an updated list of AI products currently being used in higher education, see the Generative AI Product Tracker from Ithaka S+R.