Artificial Intelligence: Research, Writing, Teaching, & Ethics

Web-based and Word plug-in that analyzes the text in your document to recommend research for you to explore.

Free AI-driven search of over 200 million academic papers. Provides a TLDR summary of results.

Search, summarize, and extract data from results in a comparative chart. Also has a feature that lets you chat with articles.

Search, extract data in a comparative chart. Provides a literature review summary of first 5 papers.

Streamlines gathering and analyzing medical evidence. Allows for basic searching, category searches (ICD-11 and DSM-5), and MEDLINE searching with PubMed syntax. Extracts PICO and other data.

Free for researchers with an account sign-up. Research Rabbit is a literature mapping and discovery tool that visualizes papers, author networks, and more in a bubble map. It also can act like spotify and learn from your work to improve recommendations.

Free to download and use, machine-learning software to assist with systematically reviewing large amounts of articles/content. Coordinated by Utrecht University, the software is part of a non-profit initiative driven by multidisciplinary researchers and system engineers worldwide.

Enter a question and request an analysis in the form of a literature review, plain language, statistical analysis, comparative therapy analysis, curriculum study guide, or exam practice questions.

AI search engine designed to take your research question, find relevant answers in research papers, and synthesize the results.

Uses a visual graph or other visualization to sho relevant studies. Connected to the Semantic Scholar Paper Corpus.

Answers created from a combination of scientific evidence and genAI.

The main generative AI folks think of
Availability: Free version and paid UM System accounts are authorized through DoIT.

AI assistant that generates text, but can also create interactive applications with basic coding, such as practice quizzes and marketing models. Claude has capacity to do sentiment analysis, vision analysis, and problem solving.

AI research assistant for academic reading, writing, and organizing research.

Conversational LLM and search engine that has multiple modes (creative, balanced, precise) and image generation capabilities.
Availability: Freemium - some features may be used anonymously. A protected mode (chats are deleted when the browser/app is closed) is available through UM System accounts.

Creative writing assistant with features to rewrite phrases, describe scenes in more detail, give you feedback on your writing, and explore things like plot points, character arcs, and themes.

Writing support - an extension for rewriting, proofreading, rephrasing, and exploring ways to level up your writing.

Formerly Bard, Gemini is Google's chatbot, with image generation through Imagen 2.
Availability: Freemium - Paid accounts using personal Google accounts authorized through DoIT in a limited pilot.

Research tool that offers a summary of the first 5 results,defaults to providing main insights, and can include columns with TLDR, findings, etc.

Combine your schedule, notes, apps, documents, and more into a database that can answer questions based on content, create insights, and automate basic tasks.

Upload a PDF and ask questions to quickly understand the research and content.

OpenAI's text-to-image tool, accessed through MS Copilot (free but not anonymous), ChatGPT (paid version) and other accounts like Perplexity.

Powerpoint/slide generator based on your notes and scripts.

Text-to-image generator - freely available with account creation.

(No free version) End-to-end video creator and editor based on text and scripts.

Ithaka S+R’s Generative AI Product Tracker lists generative AI products that are either marketed specifically towards postsecondary faculty or students or appear to be actively in use by postsecondary faculty or students for teaching, learning, or research activities. It does not currently include discipline-specific or AI detection tools.