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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Ethics, readings, help, and tools for AI in an academic and research setting. Includes a comparative table (AI matrix) of various AI tools/platforms.

AI Tool Matrix: Comparison Table of Generative AI Platforms/Tools

This matrix compares AI tools/platforms and their various costs, purpose, and risks to consider for academic writing and research. Matrix will be updated before each semester, or more. Information from the AI Matrix Table is available below. Last updated on May 24, 2024.

Full AI Matrix Table (online Word document, link available via Ohio University's OneDrive)

Also check out ITHAKA-SR's Generative AI Product Tracker, a living document that lists generative AI products that are marketed to higher education and research activities.

AI Tools by Use

Microsoft Copilot (https://copilot.microsoft.com). Free.

The protected version is free to the Ohio University community. To access this version you will need to login to the platform utilizing your university credentials (username and password combination). To confirm successful login, you will see a green “protected” icon on the top right hand corner of the screen.

  • Good for: human-computer interaction, answering quick questions, streamlining work, tutoring, creating images/content
  • Be mindful of: the open version of Microsoft Copilot uses data entry as part of training its algorithm
  • This version of Copilot provides enterprise-grade security, privacy, and compliance in which Microsoft labels “commercial data protection” when eligible users sign in with their OHIO account. Commercial data protection means user and organizational data are protected, prompts and responses are not saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on access, and chat data isn't used to train the underlying large language models. Upon logging in with your OHIO credentials you should see a green shield indicating protected in the top right corner of the screen. 
  • Ohio University OIT as reviewed this software. CTLA recommended.

ChatGPT Plus+ (https://chat.openai.com) Upgrade plan to $20/month

  • Good for: human-computer interaction, brainstorming, creative writing, content creation, data analysis, chat with your document
  • Be mindful of: bias and discrimination, data privacy, ChatGPT can create incorrect information, misuse and copyright issues
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request. CTLA recommended.

ChatGPT 4.0 (https://chat.openai.com) Free

  • Good for: human-computer interaction, brainstorming, creative writing, content creation
  • Be mindful of: bias and discrimination, data privacy, ChatGPT can create incorrect information, misuse and copyright issues; does not include data/content after early 2024
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request

Gemini via Google (https://gemini.google.com/app) $20/month

  • Good for: personalized learning, summarize content, brainstorm, grade papers, offers more of a conversation, ESL
  • Be mindful of: bias and discrimination, data privacy, can create incorrect information, misuse and copyright issues
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request

There is an AI for that - discovery tool

Discovery different AI platforms by use, when it was launched, cost, etc. Be aware that the Libraries' and Ohio University has not vetted this discovery tool and all of the AI platforms included.

ResearchRabbit (https://www.researchrabbit.ai) Free+

Jenni (https://jenni.ai/) $20/month

  • Good for: suggesting citations, discovering literature, paraphrasing, text generation
  • Be mindful of: checking the citations generated to ensure relevance, it's not clear how/where the citations are being generated from (bias potential)
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request

Semantic Scholar (https://www.semanticscholar.org/) Free

  • Good for: suggesting citations, discovering literature, "Research Feed" feature to get updated research on your topic, helps assess credibility of papers
  • Be mindful of: not clear how/where the citations are being generated from (bias potential); scholarly privilege and access; utilizes OA journals
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request

Scite.ai (https://scite.ai/) $20/month

  • Good for: quantitative assessment of literature's impact; citation analysis; compare conflicting/contradicting citations and identify discrepancies in the literature; categorizes citations into mentioning, contradicting, and supporting, aiding scientists in better interpreting citation counts
  • Be mindful of: user data privacy
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request

Elicit (https://elicit.com) Free or $10+/month (credits for additional features)

  • Good for: streamline literature review process; find research papers; extract key findings; paper analysis for themes; brainstorming; able to limit by methodology, interventions, funding source, datasets available, etc.; grid-like comparison across papers;
  • GAIL Conference 2024 presentation slides on the tool Elicit
  • Be mindful of: bias in scholarly literature; lack of critical thinking; unsure of where tool retrieves literature; uploading articles that are not yours is against copyright
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request

LitMaps (https://www.litmaps.com) Free basic search for up to 20 inputs, Pro $10/month unlimited inputs.

  • Good for: streamline literature review process; visualize relationships between research papers; identify research gaps;
  • Be mindful of: uploading articles that are not yours is against copyright; bias in scholarly literature; lack of critical thinking; unsure of where tool retrieves literature
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request

Inciteful (https://inciteful.xyz) Free

  • Good for: streamline literature review process; relationships between research papers; identify research gaps;
  • Be mindful of: uploading articles that are not yours is against copyright; bias in scholarly literature; lack of critical thinking; unsure of where tool retrieves literature
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request

Perplexity.AI (https://www.perplexity.ai) Free

Scholarcy (https://www.scholarcy.com) $10/month

Consensus (https://consensus.app) Free or $9+/month

  • Good for: streamline literature review process; find research papers; extract key findings; paper analysis for themes; brainstorm
  • GAIL Conference 2024 presentation slides on the tool Consensus
  • Be mindful of: bias in scholarly literature; lack of critical thinking; unsure of where tool retrieves literature; uploading articles that are not yours is against copyright
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request

Scite.ai (https://scite.ai/) $20/month

  • Good for: employs a Bayesian method to search for a cell phylogeny, facilitating the inference of tumor evolution from single-cell sequences; SCITE, a stochastic search algorithm, is effective in identifying the evolutionary history of tumors from noisy and incomplete mutation profiles of single cells.
  • Be mindful of: user data privacy
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request
  •  Scite | AI for Researchers (video)

ChatGPT Plus+ (https://chat.openai.com) Upgrade plan to $20/month

  • Good for: human-computer interaction, brainstorming, creative writing, content creation, data analysis, chat with your document
  • Be mindful of: bias and discrimination, data privacy, ChatGPT can create incorrect information, misuse and copyright issues
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request. CTLA recommended.

Sharly ai (https://sharly.ai) $10/month

  • Good for: chat with your document; analyzing documents (PDFs and text files);
  • Be mindful of: bias and discrimination; data privacy; misuse and copyright issues
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request. CTLA recommended.

ChatGPT Plus+ (https://chat.openai.com) Upgrade plan to $20/month

  • Good for: human-computer interaction, brainstorming, creative writing, content creation, data analysis, chat with your document
  • Be mindful of: bias and discrimination, data privacy, ChatGPT can create incorrect information, misuse and copyright issues
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request. CTLA recommended.

Adobe Firefly (Photoshop) (https://firefly.adobe.com) Free

  • Good for: Art & Design; offers layout, color, typography suggestions to streamline design process. A generative machine learning model to create, ideate, and edit images through text prompts. Firefly is best used for generating graphics.
  • Be mindful of: According to Adobes's published Privacy Notice and security standards, data entered into Firefly will cross national borders where privacy protections may be different; be mindful of copyright - not yet ready for commercial use; trained on Midjourney images (see below)
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request.

DALL-E (OpenAI, ChatGPT) (https://openai.com) $20/month

  • Good for: Art & Design; takes prompts (both written and from existing images) to create new art, logos, images, etc.. It uses a modified variation of ChatGPT.
  • Be mindful of: copyright; bias in image creation; data privacy
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request. CTLA recommended.

Midjourney (https://www.midjourney.com/home) Basic Plan: $10; Standard Plan: $30; Pro Plan: $60; Mega Plan $120

  • Good for: Art & Design: Much like Adobe Firefly, image generator. A generative AI program to create images based on text prompts.
  • Be mindful of: copyright; bias in image creation; data privacy
  • Ohio University OIT has not reviewed this software. Submit an OHIO Technology Review Request.
Subjects: Interdisciplinary