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CIS-385 (Dr. Jia Shen)

Some examples of AI tools

Andi 
 AI-powered search assistant that helps users find information quickly by providing direct answers and summarizing relevant content from various sources, making online research more efficient.

Brave

A privacy-focused web browser that blocks ads and trackers, using AI to enhance ad-blocking efficiency and personalize content recommendations while maintaining user privacy.

ChatGPT

An AI language model by OpenAI that generates human-like text for conversation, answering questions, and assisting with various tasks.

Google Gemini

An AI model from Google designed to improve search interactions with more contextual and human-like responses.

Elicit

AI search assistant for researchers and academics that helps conduct literature reviews by identifying relevant research papers on a topic and summarizing key points.

Keenious

An AI research tool that helps users discover relevant academic papers and resources based on their research interests, streamlining the literature review process.

Komo

An AI-driven knowledge management platform designed to help teams organize, share, and collaborate on information and insights, enhancing productivity and communication. 

Microsoft Copilot

An AI assistant integrated into Microsoft 365 applications that helps users by generating content, automating tasks, and providing intelligent suggestions, improving workflow efficiency.

Perplexity

AI chatbot designed to deliver concise, reliable, up-to-date answers drawing on a variety of high quality sources, including scholarly sources. Includes an interactive search mode that asks you clarifying questions to guide the AI search process and find the best answer for you. Also offers a list of related questions and references.

Research Rabbit

Described as “Spotify of research”, users can create collections of academic papers that the software can learn from to give them relevant recommendations. It also visualizes scholarly networks in graphs, so it’s possible follow the work of specific authors or topics.

Scholar AI

An AI tool that assists researchers by finding relevant academic papers, summarizing findings, and suggesting citations, streamlining the research process and enhancing literature reviews.

Semantic Scholar

Free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature. Semantic Scholar helps researchers understand a paper at a glance by extracting meaning and identifying connections from within papers. Indexes over 200 million academic papers sourced from publisher partnerships, data providers, and web crawls.

YOU.com

A search engine built on artificial intelligence that provides users with a customized search experience while keeping their data 100% private.

2dsearch.com

AI-powered search engine that allows users to find and visualize academic papers, research articles, and datasets in a two-dimensional format. It leverages AI to analyze and present relationships between concepts, helping researchers explore relevant literature more intuitively.