Artificial Intelligence Resources

Text Generation Tools

(Note - most text generators are now integrated with web searching.)

• ChatGPT - from OpenAI - GPT4o is generally considered most robust text generator. GPT4o mini is a free version.
• Gemini - from Google (Alphabet) - new, more powerful LLM that operates more like GPT.  Free, limited version available with Google account. 
• Co-Pilot - from Microsoft - uses GPT4 Turbo and in a limited form is free with Microsoft account.  
• Claude - from Anthropic - version 3.5 is a powerful tool focused on text and data.  It is considered "safer" than others and puts more guardrails up.  
• Meta.ai - from Meta - integrated into Meta apps, but also available as a standalone site. Fairly new and mixed reviews on text generation capabilities. 
• Perplexity - from PerplexityAI - designed for research and has a free version without having to sign up, which can make it easier to use in the classroom.

Image Generation Tools

• DALL-E - version 3 makes it easier to translate ideas into images. Integrated into ChatGPT.  
• Adobe Firefly - use text to generate images, upload images to remove objects or transform images.  Integrated into Photoshop and other Adobe products, but can also try it out with free standalone version.  Adobe does not train its AI on copyrighted images and marks all images as being AI generated.   
• Meta.ai - integrated in Meta apps and gets good reviews for image generation.
• Midjourney - use in Discord to generate images from text prompts.    
• NightCafe - AI art generator that emphasizes the art community.  Free and can earn credits for more powerful features.  
• Craiyon - turn text prompts to art - limited number of free images.  
• Hotpot - creates AI generated art and is particularly good at portraits, corporate headshots or avatars.  

Video Generation Tools

• DeepMotion - create animations through AI-powered motion capture and real-time 3D body tracking.  
• Fliki - turn text into videos with lifelike voiceovers, dynamic AI video clips and other AI-powered features.  
• Luman5 - turn text or blogs into video.  Creating a video is as easy as creating a presentation.  
• Synthesia - popular AI video generation platform.  Create professional videos without mics, cameras, actors or studios. 

Tools to Help With Research and Literature Reviews

• ChatPDF - upload a PDF article or other document and ChatPDF can read, summarize and answer questions about the article in any language. ChatPDF does not share your files, they are stored securely until you delete them.   
• Consensus - search engine that uses AI to extract key findings from scientific research. Consensus is searching all content in Semantic Scholar. 
• Elicit - The AI Research Assistant - uses AI to help automate research workflows.  Can help with literature reviews by finding and summarizing articles.  Can also help with brainstorming, summarization and text classification.  Searching all content in Semantic Scholar.  
• The Literature - Realtime PubMed Analysis - can analyze sources and create a literature review from open access sources in PubMed.
• Research Rabbit - this is a "citation-based literature mapping tool" that is able to find related articles from an article you provide or will monitor your interests and recommend related sources.  Has interactive visualizations of the scholarly research around a topic.
• Afforai - upload many documents and get a manageable amount of reliable information from those documents. Can create a chatbot to use with your data.  
• ScholarAI - a ChatGPT plugin that allows you to access open access research articles.  
• Unriddle.ai - a research and writing tool that finds information from documents, takes notes and helps you write.  As you type, content from your library will pop up to help create a document faster.  

Tools for Writing Help

• Grammarly - online grammar, spelling and punctuation checker. Also helps with generating ideas for writing and citations.  
• QuillBot - helps with paraphrasing, grammar and spelling, and tone detection.   
• Writesonic - a tool to help write articles with paraphrasing help, text expansion, and summarization.  

Tools to Help with Studying and Managing Workloads

• Tutor.ai - a customizable learning tool that includes interactive lessons, practice exercises, real-life feedback and progress tracking.
• TurboLearn AI - upload audio, video, website or PDF and using AI this tool will create flashcards, quizzes and more.  Students can record lectures and have AI produce notes, flashcards, etc. on the lecture.  
• Otter.ai - used for recording, transcribing and organizing recordings and conversations.  You can transcribe conversations (like meetings or lectures) in real-time or via a recording. Otter also provides automated summaries, action items and can search the transcripts.  
• Notion - a management platform with integrated AI assistance that helps you organize work, projects and life.  Helps build to-do lists, tables, databases and much more. Has AI help with translation, generate next steps, provide summaries, and gain insight from large amounts of notes.  
• Socratic - a free learning app from Google that has the tagline, "Get Unstuck. Learn Better."  It provides explanations and tutorials on subjects or questions students are having trouble with. Also has interactive tutorials, simulations, videos and visual aids.  Available on the Apple App Store or Google Play. 

• AIPRM's Ultimate Generative AI Glossary - helps clarify AI-related jargon and terms.  
• AI for Education - prompt library for educators.  Prompts and other ideas for using chatbots to help generate lesson plans, assessments, complete administrative tasks, etc.
• Futurepedia AI Tools Directory - this site has information about thousands of AI tools and is meant to help you find an AI tool to help you with any task.  
• One Useful Thing - blog about understanding the implications of AI for work, education, and life.  By Ethan Mollick a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  Often contains applications for teaching in higher ed.  
• Sentient Syllabus - newsletter for academics about navigating artificial intelligence in higher education.