LibGuides: Generative AI and Copilot: GenAI Sources

Generative AI Sources

AI Tool	Purpose	Benefits	Weaknesses
Elicit	Provides article suggestions and summaries for literature reviews though using Large Language Models	Good for Literature reviews Shows abstract summaries, and identifies interventions, outcomes and participants Highlights where these parts are found in the abstracts to make it easier to check accuracy Search within articles Upload your own articles / PDFs to analyse	Can miss the nuance of articles, sometimes gets information wrong, and cannot evaluate reliability Does not include all articles.
Consensus	Search engine using AI and Natural Language queries to find answers in Evidence-Based scientific research.	Includes information from only peer reviewed sources Summarises key findings Indicates the reputation of journals articles are published in.	Includes disputed and retracted articles in results, although they are flagged Does not evaluate the reliability of articles.

Note: All GenAI search engines tend to be more locked-down than GenAI systems tooled for "chatting" (like ChatGPT and GPT4All) not all the Prompt engineering strategies will work outside the more role play-capable chat systems.

AI Tool	Purpose	Benefits	Weaknesses
Google Bard	Not based on ChatGPT! Based on Google's PaLM 2 model	Good for news sources and popular culture Full chat features	Sources are not scholarly May misinterpret results (but provides links to original sources)
Microsoft Bing Chat	Based on ChatGPT	Good for news sources and popular culture	Sources are not scholarly May misinterpret results (but provides links to original sources) Only available with Microsoft Edge web browser
Perplexity AI	Based on ChatGPT	Good for news sources and popular culture	Sources are not scholarly May misinterpret results (but provides links to original sources)

AI Tool	Purpose	Benefits	Weaknesses
ChatGPT	OpenAI's GenAI LLM, basis for Microsoft Bing's AI search feature	Very Large Language Model and constantly improving Open API and store for plugins like Wolfram Alpha which helps verify factual information before retuning output	Privacy concerns when training is allowed Requires payment for full use
GPT4All	Based on Meta's Llama model and many different training sets on offer	Open source model Free to use (some training sets are not licensed for commercial use) Run offline with no privacy concerns	Less powerful than ChatGPT, but comparable in certain areas

AI Tool	Purpose	Benefits	Weaknesses
DALL.E 2	Created by OpenAI
Midjourney			Only available via Discord
Stable Diffusion		Open source model Can run natively on some mobile devices

Note: All GenAI sources are subject to "Hallucination" and Bias, when using an AI-powered search, be aware the GenAI component may still misrepresent otherwise credible sources.

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