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Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be broadly defined as "the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems endowed with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience" (https://www.britannica.com/
technology/artificial-intelligence).
Currently Artificial intelligence is deployed in hundreds of applications among scores of industries, scientific pursuits, and academic endeavors. A few common applications include mapping, autonomous cars, facial recognition, online shopping, fintech, "liking," biotechnology, high-frequency trading. It won't be long before its impact will be felt in every corner and niche of our world.
A type of artificial intelligence, Generative AI "enables users to quickly engender new content based on a variety of inputs. Inputs and outputs...can include text, images, sounds, animation, 3D models, or other types of data," according to Nvidia, perhaps the premier supplier of processing infrastructure in and to the AI field. Furthermore, "Generative AI models use neural networks to identify the patterns and structures within existing data to generate new and original content. One of the breakthroughs with generative AI models is the ability to leverage different learning approaches, including unsupervised or semi-supervised learning for training.
Important Note: When using Generative AI, the quality of a given answer also depends on the quality of the question. Remember: Do Not ask any GenAI to write your paper!
Copilot (from Microsoft Bing) - Microsoft Copilot is a chatbot developed by Microsoft and launched on February 7, 2023. Based on a large language model, it is able to cite sources, create poems, and write songs.
ChatGPT - free-to-use AI system. Use it for engaging conversations, gain insights, and automate tasks.
Consensus - Research tool: Yes / No questions with scholarly resources, synthesis of overall findings of scholars in reply to question. Citations for all resources included in synthesis are provided. Free to try.
Focus on questions that researchers may have studied. Current source material used in Consensus comes from the Semantic Scholar database, which includes over 200M papers across all domains of science.
Elicit AI Research Assistant - Elicit is an AI assistant for researchers and academics, particularly geared toward literature reviews / systematic reviews. Extract information from PDFs you upload, synthesize information and find concepts, related materials. (Incubated at Ought and now running as an independent public benefit corporation.)