Archer Library: Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Tools

AI uses in academia

Opportunities of GenAI

As a student you may* have the opportunity to use GenAI to assist you:

Brainstorm	Research	Explain
ask GenAI about a topic to brainstorm explore pieces of an idea find inspiration about a topic break a big topic into smaller parts find related topics of interest	develop and refine keywords for searching ask for background information ask for academic database recommendations ask for research similar to good articles you've found	ask AI to explain a tough topic ask AI to summarize a topic ask questions to help understand a topic use AI to generate terms and definitions to easily create flash cards

*You should always refer to your program, course, and assignment instructions to determine when and how you are able to use GenAI without impacting the academic integrity of your work.

-from UofM Artificial Intelligence LibGuide

GenAI Tools

Here are a few Gen AI tools that can help assist in research, compiling, brainstorming, writing, and more.

Type of Tool	Purpose	Examples
General purpose	Use these tools for all of the purposes listed below, to varying degree	OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, Anthropic's Claude
Discovery	Find and evaluate academic sources	Consensus, Elicit, ResearchRabbit, Inciteful
Teaching & learning	For teachers and students to use for teaching and learning activities	Clarivate's Alethea, Wolfram Problem Generator
Workflow	Improve academic workflows, such as summarizing academic articles or note-taking	DocAnalysis, Google's NotebookLM
Writing	Generate text and edit your writing	Springer Nature's Curie (MS Word extension), Digital Science's Writefull, Grammarly
Coding	Generate code and edit your code	Meta's Code Llama, GitHub's Copilot
Image generation	Generate and modify images	OpenAI’s DALL-E, Midjourney, Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, and Adobe Firefly

The Generative AI Product Tracker is a comprehensive list of generative AI tools used by students and faculty for learning, research, and teaching.

-from UofM Artificial Intelligence LibGuide