Copilot (formerly known as Bing Chat Enterprise) is an everyday AI companion that provides AI-powered chat for the web. It's designed to assit users in various tasks, such as researching industry insights, analyzing data, and finding inspiration. When signed into UHD Microsoft Copilot, your conversations are commercially protected. This is the free educational institute version.
ChatGPT is a conversational AI developed by OpenAI, based on the GPT-3.5 (free) and GPT-4 models. It can generate human-like text and assist with a wide range of tasks, from writing to coding. Users interact with a chatbot in a conversational context, and the chatbot will compose text based upon the user's prompts. The bot is capable of generating text on a variety of topics and in a variety of styles.
Previously Bard, developed by Google, a large language model, a conversational chatbot trained to be informative and comprehensive. It is trained on a massive amount of text data and is able to communicate and generate human-like text in response to a wide range of prompts and questions. The free version provides basic access with limited features. The Advanced paid version has more advanced capabilities of interaction with other Google Apps and faster processing.
Perplexity AI is and AI-powered search engine and chatbot that is designed to provide accurate and comprehensive answers to user queries. By searching the web in real-time, it offers up-to-date information on a wide range of topics.
Firefly is an AI tool by Adobe that goes beyond text-to-image generation.
A conversational AI assistant by Anthropic, Claude is known for having a particularly large memory and can summarize large documents or multiple pdfs. Claude currently cannot search the internet or provide links to its sources. Its capabilities are less well documented.
Developed by Meta, LlaMa is a conversational AI model. LlaMa can be useful for natural language understanding and dialogue-based tasks. Faculty can experiment with it for research or teaching purposes.
Elicit is an AI-driven search and discovery toolset designed to streamline the research process, offering access to over 200 million academic papers. It integrates publisher partnerships, data providers, and web crawls, facilitating a comprehensive search platform. Initiated in 2015 by the Allen Institute for AI, Elicit is a "free to start", open project aimed at enhancing research quality and accessibility.
Operates as a chatbot-style search engine, allowing users to ask questions in natural language. It gathers information from various sources on the web, including academic databases, news outlets, YouTube, and Reddit, and provides users with a summary containing source citations, enabling them to verify the information and dive deeper into a particular subject. It cites the sources used to gather the information to ensure credibility in its responses, more research based.