Generative AI

Microsoft Copilot

AI-powered chatbot built on GPT-4 from Microsoft; also creates high quality images from text prompts.

Step 1: Navigate to copilot.microsoft.com

Step 2: Sign in with your UW-Parkside credentials.

Step 3: Choose Copilot for Work

Step 4: Begin prompting!

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• ChatGPT - Chatbot developed by OpenAI, based on an LLM. Enables users to refine and steer a conversation toward a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language. Currently one of the most popular AI tool being used in the general public.
• Gemini - Conversational chatbot developed by Google, based on LaMDA family of LLMs.
• Grammarly - Ukraine-founded cloud-based writing assistant used to review grammar, spelling, punctuation, clarity, engagement and delivery mistakes in English texts. Can also detect plagiarism and suggest replacements for errors.
• Perplexity AI - Conversation search engine that answers questions using natural language predictive text.

Scholarly AI Tools

• ASReview - Helps scholars and practitioners get an overview of the most relevant records for their work as efficiently as possible while maintaining transparency in the process.
• Semantic Scholar - AI-driven search and discovery tools; indexes over 200 million academic papers sourced from publisher partnerships, data providers, and web crawls.
• Elicit - Can be used to summarize papers, extract data, and synthesize findings.
• Explainpaper - Intended to make reading research papers easier. Allows users to upload a paper, highlight confusing text, and receive an explanation.
• ResearchRabbit - Scholarly publication discovery tool. Offers visual maps and publications lists to guide users through interconnected research trails (i.e. going down the rabbit hole).
• SciSpace - Designed to help users understand research papers better by explaining and elaborating most academic texts in simple words.