Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: For Faculty

Note: These tools are experimental and under development and have not been evaluated by Iona University Libraries. Functionality, fee for use, and access may change at any time. Please review tool documentation for privacy and data security. 

• Perplexity.ai - A chatbot with the ability to display the source of the information it provides. 
• Consensus - AI-powered academic search engine.
• Elicit.com -  Main workflow is Literature Reviews by asking a research question or use tasks to brainstorm. Open Access content only.
• Socratic - AI-powered app comes directly from Google, focusing on math and science.
• Connected Papers  - A visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.
• Inciteful - Consists of two tools. The Paper Discovery tool builds a network of papers from citations. The Literature Connector allows you to enter two papers, and it results in an interactive visualization showing you how the literature connects them.
• LitMaps - Creates interactive literature maps. 
• Research Rabbit - A tool for exploring new areas and writing literature reviews. Allows you to uncover papers related to your area of research easily and shows links between authors. Currently free. 
• Keenious - A tool that uses AI to search for literature by analyzing your writing. Keenious offers add-ons for both Microsoft Word and Google Docs.
• scite - A platform for discovering and evaluating scientific articles via Smart Citations. Smart Citations allow users to see how a publication has been cited by providing the context of the citation and a classification describing whether it provides supporting or contrasting evidence for the cited claim.
• Semantic Scholar - AI-powered research tool for scientific literature.  
• Scholarcy - Summarizes articles. 
• Glasp - A social web highlighter to use to highlight and organize quotes and ideas from the web without switching back and forth, and access other people’s learning. 
• SciSpace - Research and document analysis. Uses GPT-3 to explain papers from a repository of 270 million + papers.  You can also upload a PDF and have it summarize the paper’s contents and search for topics. Allows you to limit by year of publication, type of publication, and other parameters.
• Wolfram Alpha - Answer engine that uses its algorithms and knowledge base in tandem with AI technology to provide information on math, science, technology, society, culture, and everyday life. 
• Open Knowledge Maps - Enhances the discovery and visibility of scientific research by providing a visual interface for exploring research topics, making it easier to identify relevant studies and key concepts.

Note: These tools are experimental and under development and have not been evaluated by Iona University Libraries. Functionality, fee for use, and access may change at any time. Please review tool documentation for privacy and data security. 

• Adobe Firefly - Text-to-image generator and generative fill editor.
• Google Gemini - Text-to-image generator 
• ImageFX - Google labs AI image generator. 
• Copilot - Chatbot from Microsoft with image creation available in the Designer GPT. 
• StarryAI - Text-to-image generator
• Craiyon - Online image creator from text. Formerly DALL-E Mini.
• Stable Diffusion - Text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo-realistic images from text input.
• Midjourney - Text-to-image creator using LLM and diffusion models.
• Photoleap - AI photo editing app. 
• Clipdrop - From Stability. Creates and edits images.
• Runway ML - A variety of text-to-image, text-to-video, image-to-image, video-to-video, and other tools. 
• Meta AI - Text-to-image generator, also known as "Imagine"
• Pika Labs - Text-to-video generator
• Canva, Adobe Photoshop, and the Windows 11 version of Microsoft Paint all have AI image generation features

Note: These tools are experimental and under development and have not been evaluated by Iona University Libraries. Functionality, fee for use, and access may change at any time. Please review tool documentation for privacy and data security. 

• Beatoven.ai - Create music for your video using royalty free content.
• Suno - Text-to-music generation.
• Udio - Text-to-music generation.

Note: These tools are experimental and under development and have not been evaluated by Iona University Libraries. Functionality, fee for use, and access may change at any time. Please review tool documentation for privacy and data security. 

• Elsa - An AI-powered language-learning application that analyzes speech and then creates a set of user assignments. Elsa is available for iOS and Android devices.