Introduction to the Library for International Students and New Immigrants

Overview 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.

Assists in explaining complex academic papers. Upload a PDF, highlight passages that you find difficult or confusing, and the AI will rephrase these for you.

"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.

Experimental 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.

Conducts search for inquiry (similar to a search engine), but also gathers, screens and assesses articles, then generates a report about the articles' findings.

In response to queries, Perplexity generates responses and summaries, but also provides links to the scholarly and popular sources the answers came from.

Generates 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.

Summarizing findings of scholarly articles in response to queries.
Fee-based plans available, but free version allows 5 searches per month.