Research Guides
Copilot is an LLM developed by Microsoft that responds to user prompts and works seamlessly with Microsoft products such as Word and Excel. Copilot is based on OpenAI's GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 (image generation) models and integrated with the Bing search index, and it has an option to try OpenAI's GPT-5. Copilot is available through Microsoft/Microsoft 365, Bing, and the Microsoft Edge web browser. Logging into Copilot chat through Microsoft 365 with OU credentials will provide enhanced privacy and data protection for OU institutional data. For more information, visit the OU IT link below.
ChatGPT is developed by OpenAI and started as a text-based LLM, or "chatbot." This model uses GPTs (e.g. GPT-4, GPT-4o) to generate content such as text, speech, and media content (images, video, audio) in response to user prompts. The most common version of ChatGPT is multi-modal and can respond to voice, image, and video prompts. ChatGPT can be used as a writing tool and for brainstorming research ideas with prompt engineering and responsible credibility/source verification.
Gemini is an LLM model developed by Google and functions with Google Search to ask questions, generate media, assist with learning tasks, and brainstorm ideas with a "live" feature that responds to voice prompts. Gemini also houses Deep Research, a deep learning feature that can help users plan, search, reason, and report on research topics.
Goblin Tools is a platform with a simple user-friendly dashboard of genAI tools that can assist neurodivergent individuals with everyday tasks that might be challenging or overwhelming.
Firefly is a GenAI tool that generates creative content such as images and videos in response to text or reference media. Firefly can be used as a standalone application or within the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, and can be found as a feature on several Adobe applications to manipulate and enhance image content. Firefly is trained on Adobe stock images and licensed content, so it is intended to be safe for commercial use.
Hugging Face is a collaborative platform focused on ML and NLP. Hugging Face serves as a repository for pre-trained models, datasets, and offers users the capability to build their own models and interactive applications. Hugging Face is an open-source platform that is publicly accessible, allowing for greater transparency and customization.
LLM-powered "answer engine" that can retrieve citations, up-to-date literature, generate answers, and explore research questions interactively with real-time web access.
Gemini powers Google’s NotebookLM, a powerful research tool that offers transparent citations, helps users with writing assistance, summarizes documents and notes, creates study guides, and can generate podcasts that "talk" about the prompt material.
Open-source framework that builds local AI researchers using specific applications that can run LLMs directly to a personal machine. Data that is processed locally on a personal computer, rather than a server, minimizes the risk of data breaches and gives more control to users to protect their data and privacy.
Citation analysis powered by deep learning AI. Scite is used for literature review and offers features such as dashboards to track trends, reference checks to ensure citation quality, browser extensions, and compatibility with Zotero. Scite will analyze citations and provide insight on whether they support, contrast, or mention other works as well as citation context (how a part of an article is cited by other works).
AI tool for in-depth literature review. Elicit only focuses on academic literature to reduce hallucinations and provides a systematic literature review by automating tasks such as data extraction and screening. Features include in-depth paper summarization, exportation to citation managers, and text classification.
Consensus focuses on academic literature but excels at synthesizing a common theme across research papers and providing quick, straightforward summaries.