Generative AI for researchers
I’ve been collecting some bits and pieces on the use of generative AI for researchers, and thought I’d share a few resources that you may find useful.
Blog posts about using AI for research
- Mehreen, K. (2023, July 4). Advanced Techniques for Research with ChatGPT.
- Schreiner, M. (2023, July 10). GPT-Researcher is an AI agent for autonomous research.
- Veletsianos, G. (2023, May 6). How ChatGPT helped me download 6,000 pdfs.
- Carrigan, M. (2023, June 27). The impending automation of grant writing.
- Carrigan, M. (2023, May 29). Talking to ChatGPT about my PhD.
AI tools for research (note that these are only the ones I’ve played around with a bit…there are many, many more that are being launched, almost on a daily basis).
- Research Rabbit. “our Discovery app which unlocks a completely novel way to search for papers and authors, monitor new literature, visualize research landscapes, and collaborate with colleagues”. For now, the focus is on literature reviews, and finding links between collections of work. I find the interface confusing and hard to track. It’s visually impressive, but for me, I haven’t found the use case that unlocks it’s potential.
- Elicit. Elicit is a research assistant using language models to automate parts of researchers’ workflows. Currently, the main workflow in Elicit is Literature Review.
- Explainpaper. “Upload a paper, highlight confusing text, get an explanation. We make research papers easy to read.” I’ve been impressed in my interactions with Explainpaper.
- Research Aide. Billed as a personal research assistant for students, researchers, and business professionals seeking to extract and synthesize relevant information from research papers. Basically, you upload PDFs and ask questions of the document. Helpful to understand complex papers. I haven’t used this tool.