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Generative AI

Learn about using Generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, effectively and ethically.

ChatGPT and Beyond

 ChatGPT

From Open AI. Free. Trained on data only through October 2023. 

Using ChatGPT's Free Tier - FAQ

  • Browse the web and obtain up-to-date information
  • Upload images in your prompts
  • Provide support files in your prompts
  • Discover and use GPTs

ChatGPT Plus

From Open AI. $20/month.

Includes:

  • Access to GPT-4o, GPT-40 mini, GPT-4
  • Faster response times
  • Priority access to new features and improvements
  • Access to data analysis, vision, and web browsing
  • DALL-E image generation
  • Create and use custom GPTs

 Microsoft Copilot

Free.

  •  Built on Open AI's GPT-4
  • Generate images with DALL-E 3 when using Bing Image Creator or Microsoft Designer (personal Microsoft account required)
  • Includes web search results
  • More features available with Copilot Pro - $20/month

   Gemini

Google. Free. Formerly "Bard."

  • Includes web search results from Google
  • Multimodal - trained on data beyond text, such as images, audio, video, and code

   Claude

From Anthropic. Free. Focused on reliability and safety. Trained on data through April 2024. 

Includes: 

  • data analysis
  • coding
  • vision (upload images and ask questions about them)
  • no web search results
  • More features available in Pro Version- $20/month

  Perplexity

From company of the same name. Free. 

  • Describes itself as an "AI-powered search engine." 
  • Includes sources used in generating answers
  • Free version built on ChatGPT and a standalone LLM
  • Multimodal--can understand and generate text, images, code
  • Paid Pro Version ($20/month) incorporates other LLM models, such as Claude and GPT-40. 

 Meta AI

From the company behind Facebook, Instagram, etc. Free. 

  • Built on Meta Llama 3.1
  • Includes web search results
  • Generates text, images, code

 ChatGPT

From Open AI. Free basic access. Additional functionality available for a paid subscription.

  • summarize academic articles, research papers, or reports. Ask questions (chat) about documents you upload. 
  • supports a growing range of document formats including PDF (.pdf), Word (.doc, .docx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx), Markdown (.md), and Text files (.txt).
  • accepts PDFs in any language

Consensus

Free basic access. Additional functionality available for monthly fees at Premium level. Students get 40% discount. 

  • describes itself as an "academic search engine powered by AI" 
  • uses Semantic Scholar corpus - heavily science-oriented
  • summarizes research and categorizes results around a "consensus meter," based on research questions
  • offers specific guidance for queries: How to Search

Elicit  Elicit

Free basic access (limited number of papers, etc.). Additional functionality for monthly fees at Plus and Pro levels. 

  • uses language models to extract data from and summarize research papers
  • uses Semantic Scholar corpus - heavily science-oriented
  • works best for empirical domains that involve experiments and concrete results. This type of research is common in biomedicine and machine learning.
  • submit a research question to search across the Semantic Corpus, or upload papers for summaries

 

  Research Rabbit

Free, though account required.

  • uses Semantic Scholar and PubMed corpus
  • search results relationships are represented visually
  • generates recommendations -- "Spotify for papers"

 

Semantic Scholar

Free. 

  • "A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature" 
  • can search without logging in, but free account provides more functionality, such as saving searches and "libraries" or collections of results
  • Semantic Reader tool provides summaries and highlights

 

Adobe Firefly Adobe Firefly

Text to image generator. Adobe Firefly is family of creative generative AI models. Features powered by Firefly are embedded in Adobe’s flagship apps and Adobe Stock.  (Company product description). May be accessed via the web or Adobe apps. 

 The current Firefly generative AI models were trained on a dataset of licensed content, such as Adobe Stock, and public domain content where copyright has expired. To ensure that creators can benefit from generative AI, we’ve developed a compensation model for Adobe Stock contributors whose content is used in the dataset to retrain Firefly models.

Free for a limited number of "credits" per month. Basic and Premium plans provide more credits and functionality. 

 

DALL-EDALL-E

Open AI's text to image generator. Previously available only through paid subscription, but DALL-E 3 is now freely accessibly via CHAT-GPT. Premium plans available for a monthly fee. 

 

  ImageFX

Google's text to image generator, available within Gemini, and also directly via Google Lab's ImageFX platform. Free, but a paid subscription is required for more advanced capabilities.