Neurodiversity - Resources for Studying and Teaching : Artificial Intelligence Tools for Study and Research
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There are many new Artificial Intelligence tools that can help students search for, organize, summarize, and clarify their scholarly sources. Note that the products listed on this page were produced by various software developers and some are only at the "experimental" stage. As well, they are not among the databases purchased by the UW Library; they are linked here for convenience but the University of Winnipeg makes no claims as to their accuracy--use at your own discretion!
AI Literacy
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AI LiteracyOverview of the ethical concerns students should bear in mind while using AI, including concerns over potential plagiarism, inaccuracy, biases, and impacts on the environment. Includes guidance on citing AI tools.
AI Tools for Study
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ExplainpaperAssists in explaining complex academic papers. Upload a PDF, highlight passages that you find difficult or confusing, and the AI will rephrase these for you.
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Goblintools"A collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult." Tools include "The Judge" (helps assess the tone of writing); "The Estimator" estimates how long tasks will take; "The Formalizer" converts the tone into nearly 20 different options, including "easier to read" and "snarkier"; and "Magic ToDo" generates task lists.
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Notebook LMExperimental AI tool launched in July 2023 allows users to upload one or many PDFs of scholarly articles, and generate summaries, ask questions about the content, or generate ideas about taking the information further. Of particular value for accessibility purposes is the ability to generate a "podcast" discussion about the articles between two "speakers" who engage in a realistic, lifelike dialogue about the contents.
AI Tools for Research
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ElicitConducts search for inquiry (similar to a search engine), but also gathers, screens and assesses articles, then generates a report about the articles' findings.
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PerplexityIn response to queries, Perplexity generates responses and summaries, but also provides links to the scholarly and popular sources the answers came from.
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ScholarcyGenerates thorough point-by-point summaries (including research methods and key concepts) from uploaded PDFs, which can then be output to Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and other formats.
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UndermindSummarizing findings of scholarly articles in response to queries.
Fee-based plans available, but free version allows 5 searches per month.