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Student Guide to Generative AI: GenAI Tools for Research and Learning

Writing Assistants

Paperpal

Paperpal is a writing assistant that specializes in academic writing and research. It includes a manuscript checker that reports on submission-readiness.

Grammarly

Grammarly is a grammar checking tool that also provides feedback on tone, voice and writing style.

QuillBot

Quillbot specializes in paraphrasing and condensing large quantities of text. It also includes a grammar checker, a citation generator and translator.

Research Assistants

Perplexity.ai

Perplexity is a conversational search engine that cites and links all of its sources. It indexes the web daily which allows its responses to be up-to-date.

Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar is an academic search engine that provides links to papers along with a summary of their content. The semantic scholar database includes over 200 million scholarly works and continues to grow.

Consensus

Consensus uses the Semantic Scholar dataset. When given a yes or no question, it can determine the answer based on consensus in the research.

Litmaps

When given a starting paper, Litmaps recommends more relevant articles by providing a network visualization of scholarly works that have been cited or referenced.

Study Assistants

Quizlet

Quizlet creates flash cards, notes and practice tests based on uploaded course materials.

Yippity

Yippity quickly generates quizzes based on pasted text.

Fireflies.ai

Often used for generating meeting or class notes, Fireflies transcribes and summarises recorded conversations.

Coding Assistants

GitHub Copilot

Copilot uses ChatGPT's code generation features but with additional functionality through GitHub. It can create and complete code as well as provide suggestions for improving it within the GitHub platform.

Amazon Q Developer

Q Developer can create and complete code. It is specialized to work with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Codeium

Codeium is a plug-in that can be added to many Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). Its features include autocompletion, natural language commands, and chatbot assistance.

Cody

Cody is an assistant that specializes in understanding the context of the code you are working on by accessing your entire codebase.