AI TOOLS

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a widely discussed topic in recent years—and for good reason. AI tools are now used across many industries, including education. These tools are computer programs designed to learn from data, identify patterns, and make decisions or predictions in ways that resemble human thinking. They often use algorithms and machine learning techniques to analyse large amounts of data more quickly and accurately than people can.

One reason AI tools are becoming more useful is the massive volume of data generated in our digital world. Businesses, organisations, and individuals create huge datasets every day, and AI can help make sense of this information by revealing trends or insights that may not be obvious to humans.

Overall, AI tools have the potential to change how we work and live by helping us understand complex information and solve problems in new ways. As the technology continues to evolve, we’re likely to see even more advanced tools that can support a wider range of tasks.

If you are currently studying with us, remember that the most up-to-date list of recommended Literature Search AI Tools can be found from our academyEX eLibrary site.

Using AI Tools as an aEX Student

Please read the academyEX AI Statement & Guide in here or view the video version below:

Our 'Using APA Referencing in Your Assessments' document you can find from academyEX LMS explains also how to cite AI tools.

CHATGPT

ChatGPT, launched in 2022, is an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI that can generate human-like text, answer questions, summarise information, and assist with tasks like writing and translating. It uses patterns learned from a large dataset of books, websites, and other digital content to support conversation and problem-solving across various topics.

Go to Chat-GPT

GOOGLE GEMINI

Google Gemini, launched in 2023, is a family of multimodal AI models developed by Google. It's designed to process and generate various types of data like text, images, audio, and video. Gemini powers Google's AI chatbot (formerly Bard) and is being integrated into various Google services like Search, Workspace, and Android to enhance conversational AI and task completion.

Go to Google Gemini

COPILOT

Microsoft Copilot, launched in 2023, is an AI tool that assists with tasks like summarizing emails, drafting text, and animating slides in PowerPoint. It’s designed to boost productivity and creativity by providing suggestions and a starting point for projects, as well as supporting advanced tasks like document analysis and real-time guidance.

Read about Copilot

Claude

Claude is an AI assistant created by Anthropic, designed to help with a wide range of tasks including writing, analysis, coding, math, and problem-solving. Claude aims to be helpful, honest, and ethical while providing intelligent and comprehensive responses to user queries.

Go to Claude

Canva AI tools

Canva AI iMAgic Studio s a creative tool that uses artificial intelligence to help users quickly generate and design professional visual content. It offers smart design suggestions, image generation, and automated editing across various media types.

Go to Canva AI

Gamma

Gamma is an AI tool that transforms text prompts into professionally designed presentations, websites, and documents with automated design and content generation. It enables users to quickly create and customize visual content using intelligent design assistance.

Go to Gamma

Connected Papers

Connected Papers is a visualisation tool for showing the relationships between articles, similar to Research Rabbit, but it is specifically based on similarity rather than citations (it is not a citation tree).

Go to Connected Papers

Consensus

Consensus is a literature search tool that also generates some text summaries of the material.

Go to Consensus

Elicit

Elicit uses your literature search prompt to identify relevant articles and enables you to view summarised data from each article based on your choice of filters, such as summary, main findings, methodology, etc.

Go to Elicit

Keenious

Keenious lets you start with a document, or even just a piece of writing, and then suggests related literature, but also related concepts, which are each linked to other sets of literature. It is used by many universities.

Go to Keenious

Lateral

Lateral lets you search for and upload papers into projects and then query them for text that relates to your chosen concepts. You can then choose which of these to bring into a table of sources.

Go to Lateral

LITMAPS

Litmaps is a literature search tool created in collaboration with the University of Auckland

Go to Litmaps

NotebookLM

NotebookLM is an AI research assistant from Google. You can upload a set of documents for it to work from and it can generate several different artefacts. Note that even though it is based on the uploaded documents it will still generate additional information from the model.

Go to NotebookLM

Open Knowledge Maps

This is a visualised literature searching tool. Just enter your research topic into Open Knowledge Maps and it will generate a clickable map of the literature. More information can be found on the FAQ page

Go to Open Knowledge Maps

Perplexity

Perplexity starts with a search prompt and then finds related resources that you can interact with further using its built-in AI co-pilot. By default it does a full web search (which can be useful) but can also be filtered to find only academic articles.

Go to Perplexity

Petal

Petal lets you upload documents and then chat with them using an AI interface

Go to Petal

Research Rabbit

Research Rabbit lets you start with one article, then find related articles by creating a graph of citations and similar articles. It also integrates with Zotero

Go to Research Rabbit

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