Mikkelsen Library: AI @ AU: Tools

Information for students, faculty, and staff on the use and understanding of Artificial Intelligence at Augustana University

Popular Generative Tools

Canva Magic Studio Create custom, on-brand, and attention-grabbing content in seconds. Describe what you'd like to see – or upload your media – and Magic Design uses AI to craft professional presentations, videos or social posts.
ChatGPT 3.5 ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is a generative AI tool that specializes in creating human-like text for conversational AI. Its capabilities extend to answering questions, simulating detailed conversations, writing diverse forms of content, and even coding. The tool finds applications in customer service, virtual assistance, content creation, and educational fields.
Claude Claude is a next-generation AI assistant based on Anthropic’s research into training helpful, honest, and harmless AI systems. Accessible through chat interface and API in our developer console, Claude can help with use cases including summarization, search, creative and collaborative writing, Q&A, coding, and more. Claude can also take direction on personality, tone, and behavior.
Craiyon Previously known as DALL·E mini, Craiyon is the new kid on the tech block and the best AI art generator (in our community’s words!). The brainchild of our CEO, lead researcher, and AI hero, Boris Dayma, Craiyon is a free AI image generator that’s painting a new generation for the AI art revolution through our own model.
DALL-E 3 DALL-E 3, another innovative offering from OpenAI, is an AI model adept at generating images from textual descriptions. This tool excels in creating high-resolution, artistic, and often surreal images, catering to needs in art, design, and visual content generation. DALL-E 3's uniqueness comes from its remarkable resolution, creative versatility, and ability to edit existing images or generate variations, setting new standards in AI-driven creativity and image generation.
Google Gemini Gemini, created by Google, has replaced the company's initial generative AI program, Bard. Gemini interacts and is supported by Google's range of productivity apps. As such, it's labeled as a multimodal AI tool.
Grammarly Grammarly is a Ukraine-founded cloud-based typing assistant, headquartered in San Francisco. It reviews spelling, grammar, punctuation, clarity, engagement, and delivery mistakes in English texts, detects plagiarism, and suggests replacements for the identified errors. It also allows users to customize their style, tone, and context-specific language.
Microsoft Copilot Microsoft's integration of AI signifies an advancement in combining traditional web search and productivity tasks with AI-driven capabilities. This integration enhances the work experience by providing more conversational, context-aware responses and creative content generation. The special aspect of Copilot's AI lies in its unique position of merging the Office 365 package with the dynamic functionalities of AI, offering users a more intuitive and enriched work experience.
Midjourney Midjourney stands as a generative AI tool focused on image generation, distinguished by its specialized algorithms and output quality. It is designed to create compelling visual content based on various inputs, finding its use in art, design, and content creation. What sets Midjourney apart is the distinct quality and creativity of its visual outputs, showcasing the tool's capabilities in harnessing AI for innovative visual storytelling and design.

Research Tools

ASReview Lab A free-to-use, open-source systematic review assistant that leverages state-of-the-art active learning techniques in order to help review large amounts of articles/content for specific key words and qualifiers. Originally developed by a team of researchers from Utrecht University, the software is now part of a non-profit initiative driven by multidisciplinary researchers and system engineers from across the country. Free to download and use.
Connected Papers Connected Papers is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.
Consensus Plug In Consensus GPT allows users to find answers, search for papers, and draft content grounded in scientific research by searching our database of 200M+ papers directly within the ChatGPT interface.
Elicit Elicit is an AI tool to find 'seed articles' to mine for keywords/subject headings. When you enter a question, it returns alternate questions that can lead to further "seed" articles.
Litmaps Litmaps creates interactive literature maps: collections of articles that make up your different research topics. Create maps for your research by searching our literature database; linking your reference manager; or through automatic generation from seed articles.
Open Knowlege Maps Open Knowledge Maps openknowledgemaps.org Start your literature search here: get a visual overview of a research topic, find relevant papers, and identify important concepts. Open Knowledge Maps is a free online tool that can generate a knowledge map of a research topic. It shows the main areas in a field with relevant papers and concepts. By running a keyword search query, Open Knowledge Maps pulls out 100 most relevant documents from a specific search engine (BASE or PubMed) and will generate a knowledge map with a number of main areas and relevant papers attached to each area. By design, this tool aims to keep cognitive load to a manageable amount, and therefore the total number of documents included for a knowledge map is kept at 100.
Perpexity.ai Perplexity was founded on the belief that searching for information should be a straightforward, efficient experience, free from the influence of advertising-driven models. We exist because there’s a clear demand for a platform that cuts through the noise of information overload, delivering precise, user-focused answers in an era where time is a premium.
ResearchRabbit Using a complex AI-backed methodology, this platform is a literature mapping tool. Using a “seed” article, the platform finds relevant articles and content to link. Visualized by a bubble map of connected topics, this toolset can be invaluable for finding additional connections across a variety of disciplines as well as staying up to date with up and coming publications. This initiative is supported by a development collective, which has pledged to keep the core discovery functionalities open for all to use. Sign up required to access at researchrabbit.ai. Free to use.
Scite.ai Scite.ai is an AI-powered research platform that analyzes and provides citation context for scientific papers, helping researchers evaluate the credibility and impact of scholarly articles. The scite database contains over 1.2 billion citations and 185 million full-text articles.
Semantic Scholar Pulling from publisher partnerships, data providers, and web crawls, this AI-driven search and discovery toolset provides a streamlined search platform for over 200 million academic papers. Developed within the Allen Institute for AI, this open project has been worked on since 2015 with the goal of supporting high-quality research. Free to use.
typeset.io/SCISPACE Typeset.io, now known as SciSpace, is a comprehensive academic platform providing access to over 200 million research papers. It assists researchers in discovering, understanding, writing, formatting, and publishing their research. The platform, equipped with AI tools, simplifies academic texts and ensures compliance with journal guidelines. It's a valuable resource for the research community, offering both a vast paper repository and a user-friendly SaaS environment for research authoring.

Professional Tools

aiXcoder AiXcoder is a powerful code completer & code search engine based on state-of-the-art deep learning technology. It has the potential of recommending you a full line of code, which will help you code faster. AiXcoder also provides a code search engine to help you search for API use cases on GitHub.
Bit.ai Built for teams and individuals to create, collaborate, and organize all your knowledge in one place from anywhere in the world. Create fast dynamic notes, documents, wikis, knowledge bases, projects, client deliverables, technical docs, training guides and client portals, while integrating across the apps you work with. Bit is designed to run your entire research and development process, so your team has more room to innovate.
ChatDOC Chat with documents. Get instant answers with cited sources. Let AI summarize long documents, explain complex concepts, and find key information in seconds.
ChatPDF Upload a PDF, summarize it and/or ask it questions for free.
Descript Descript is an all-inclusive AI-powered video editing tool that enables you to swiftly produce polished videos. It offers the capability to incorporate diverse visual elements, titles, captions, and even animate layers. With Descript, you can seamlessly include voiceovers in your video, providing a selection of stock voices or the option to replicate your own. There’s also a restricted free plan accessible to users.
Goblin.tools goblin.tools is a collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult. Most tools will use AI technologies in the back-end to achieve their goals. Currently this includes OpenAI's models. As the tools and backend improve, the intent is to move to an open source alternative.
GPTZero The GPTZero detection model contains 7 components that process text to determine if it was written by AI. We utilize a multi-step approach that aims to produce predictions that reach maximum accuracy, with the least false positives. Our model specializes in detecting content from Chat GPT, GPT 3, GPT 4, Bard, and LLaMa models.
Grantable Grantable is the leading AI-assisted grant writing solution that helps grant-seekers win more funding with less effort. In a clean and familiar writing space, it uses content from your previous proposals to draft responses to new application questions, which you can revise and approve. The platform stores all of your work automatically as a smart content library, and continues to improve as you use it.
Magic School AI for educators: lesson plans, assessments, IEPs. Interoperable with LMS.
Podcastle AI podcast recording and editing software.
SlidesAI SlidesAI.io is an add-on for Google Slides. With SlidesAI.io you can take any piece of text and transform it magically into visually appealing slides.
SMARTIE SMARTIE is a sophisticated suite of web-based applications, utilizing the power of the ChatGPT API and Claude API. It's specially developed to assist university-level educators in creating comprehensive and inclusive course outlines. This flexible tool allows educators to generate various course components such as descriptions, learning outcomes, corresponding EDIA-aware (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility) learning activities, and even procure recommendations for rubric redesigns.
Sora ora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.
Soundraw AI-generated music.

A note on above linked AI tools:

AI tools listed on this page are not necessarily free to use. Most require signing up for an account. AI Tools that were once free to access often move to a paid subscription model.