AI Tools & Prompting

Tools

A chatbot's knowledge base is huge with many different sources of information on a topic. It will give you the most likely answer to the question for the average person from a massive database, which is why specificity is important. Lastly, it wants to make you happy, so it will make up facts rather than disappoint you. 

Select Generative AI Tools

View these Generative AI tool descriptions by Yost, L. (2024). An Instructor's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Handbook. Kirkwood Community College. 

• ChatGPT (OpenAI)

• Claude.ai (Anthropic)

• Copilot (Microsoft)

• Gemini (Google)

• POE (Quora) - a site with access to multiple AI systems

The AI Guide from the AI Pedagogy Project at Harvard University allows you to play with ChatGPT and Claude without logging in or creating an account.

Select AI Research Tools

Read more about specific tools in Chapter 5. AI Tools from Charles Sturt University Library. (2024). Digital Skills: Artificial Intelligence. Charles Sturt University. This chapter introduces a selection of AI tools that can be used in academic study, including Generative AI (GenAI) tools, AI research tools, and AI tools for teaching and learning.

• Elicit is a research assistant that automates parts of your workflow. When you ask it a research question, Elicit will show relevant papers and summaries of key information. Users can read abstracts, filter based on study type, and save and export their work. It is good for evaluating and refining research questions.

• Perplexity is a search engine that summarizes the information available with hyperlinked references (most of which are reputable sources).

• Semantic Scholar provides free, AI-driven search and discovery tools, and open resources with over 200 million academic papers sourced from publisher partnerships, data providers, and web crawls.

• Consensus is an academic research tool that limits its data search to the 200M published papers in Semantic Scholar and uses AI (ChatGPT) claims, methodology, sample size, and more, like a “consensus meter” that estimates the consensus in the published literature.

• Copilot is Microsoft’s version of Perplexity and ChatGPT in one. It can summarize information, brainstorm options, answer questions, provide links to sources, and give feedback on your work.

Image Generators

• Image Creator from Microsoft Designer (free access to Dalle3)

• DALL-E by OpenAI (but not free for the best model)

• Adobe Firefly especially for integrating images into photos

• Stable Diffusion good, cheap and open source

• Midjourney is one of the best but can only be used through Discord.

• ImageFX by Google

• Generative AI by Getty Images creates stock images

• SLIDES: Canva.com, Beautiful, Plus AI and here is a review of seven more.

• VIDEO: Sora (from OpenAI), Flux, and lots of APIs (that use ChatGPT but with layers of tools): here is a review of 14 of them.

• AVATAR CREATOR: HeyGen