LibGuides: Artificial Intelligence and AI Writing: Tools and More

Tools and More

Bing Chat
Chatbot from Microsoft.
Byte
Chatbot from Code Breaker.
ChatGPT
Chatbot from OpenAI (note: requires phone number to set up account). Free version does not connect to Internet. Paid version scrapes live web.
ChatPDF
AI chatbot which can help to ask questions, summarize content, and chat directly with content specific to uploaded PDFs. Can translate or adjust reading level of content in PDF documents.
Chromebook Plus OS
AI integrated OS for Chromebook, comes preinstalled on new hardware.
Claude
Chatbot from Anthropic.
Copilot
Generative AI chatbot from Microsoft.
DALL-E 2
Image generator from OpenAI.
Eightify
Generate summaries of YouTube videos quickly and easily with Eightify AI ChatGPT.
Elicit
“Elicit can find relevant papers without perfect keyword match, summarize takeaways from the paper specific to your question, and extract key information from the papers.”
Futurepedia AI Tools Directory
Gamma AI
Slidedeck AI tool, used to create "Beautiful presentations, documents, and websites."
Gemini
Chatbot from Google (formerly known as Bard).
Jasper
Chatbot from Jasper AI.
Librari - "The AI-Powered Reference Assistant"
Llama
Open source AI model from Meta.
Meta AI
Generative AI chat tool from Facebook/Meta.
MidJourney
Image generator (note: requires Discord account).
Otter AI
AI Meeting Assistant.
Perplexity
"Perplexity AI is a research tool that utilizes LLM and generative AI technology to gather information from multiple sources on the web and provide responses to natural language questions. It features a user-friendly interface for smooth navigation and can assist with tasks such as content generation, research, and knowledge exploration. The platform combines AI with web search to produce ready-made answers, citing its sources, which are real but tend not to be scholarly. It is best suited for generating ideas and identifying sources." -- Description from Perplexity AI.
Pi
AI personal assistant tool.
Poe
Platform that allows you to stack AI tools to use simultaneously.
ResearchRabbit
AI research assist. Requires email to set up an account.
Scribble Diffusion
AI sketching assistant tool.
Speeko
AI coach for public speaking.

"In the News"
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"Student Use Cases for AI"
Article by Ethan Mollick and Lilach Mollick, September 25, 2023, from Harvard Business Publishing.
Center for Just Infrastructures: Publications
The Center for Just Infrastructures (formerly the Illinois Center for People and Intelligent Infrastructures) was created by researchers in the Computer Science Department, the School of Information Sciences and the College of Media at the University of Illinois to interrogate the complex interactions between people, data, systems, and algorithms. How people interact with people and the world around them is shaped by the systems they use and increasingly by the artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that drive these systems.
Chronicle of Higher Ed: "I'm a Student: You Have No Idea How Much We're Using ChatGPT"
The Conversation: ChatGPT Threatens Language Diversity
Eliot, Lance "Hard Evidence That Please And Thank You In Prompt Engineering Counts When Using Generative AI"
Inside Higher Ed: "A Message to Students About 'The Bot'"
Inside Higher Ed: "Teaching Actual Student Writing in an AI World"
Inside Higher Ed: "When AI Is Writing, Who Is the Author?"
Lex Fridman Podcast #390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies
Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Unstoppable Us.
Medium: Ethical Considerations In Machine Learning Projects
New Stack: "The Power and Ethical Dilemma of AI Image Generation Models"
New York Times: "The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About (Opinion)"
NPR: "'Everybody is cheating': Why this teacher has adopted an open ChatGPT policy"
Public Books: "Now the Humanities Can Disrupt 'AI'"
Wall Street Journal: "ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution"
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Google Quick Draw
Play the game to experience neural networking understanding your doodles.
Google Quick Draw Data
View the open source data from Google Quick Draw to see how it works on the back end.

Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Fairness Initiative
From US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Federal Trade Commission: Artificial Intelligence
List of regulation rulings regarding AI tagged by FTC.
US Department of State: Artificial Intelligence
List of AI Initiatives at the US Department of State.
Illinois Attorney General Newsletter on AI Policy
A June 13, 2023 newsletter from Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul calling for federal artificial intelligence policies that require transparency, consider potential risks.
Artificial Intelligence 2023 Legislation
Summary of legislation related to AI from the National Conference of State Legislatures. Searchable by individual state.
MIT AI Policy Forum
The AI Policy Forum (AIPF) is "a global effort convened by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing," and "will work towards formulating concrete guidance for governments and companies to address the emerging challenges."