Commonly Used Tools
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Commonly Used Tools
| Tool Name and Description | Best Used For |
|---|---|
| ChatGPT 3.5 ChatGPT is an AI language model, designed to process and generate human-like text, assisting with diverse academic tasks and communication. | Creating human-sounding text such as for lesson plans and example questions |
| Stability AI (Stable Diffusion) Stable Diffusion is a deep learning, text-to-image model released in 2022 based on diffusion techniques. It is primarily used to generate detailed images conditioned on text descriptions, though it can also be applied to other tasks such as inpainting, outpainting, and generating image-to-image translations guided by a text prompt. | Creating images from text prompts. |
| Llama Chat Created by Meta (Facebook’s parent company) Llama is an open source Large Language Model. | An open source alternative to ChatGPT best used for lessons plans and example questions. |
AI Tools Archive
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- Chatbots and LLMs
- Images
- Writing
- Presentation
- Video editing
- Neurodivergence/Learning differences
- Programming
- Research
Chatbots and LLMs
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Anything LLM offers an AI tool that ensures privacy and flexibility, enabling users to deploy any large language model (LLM) with any document locally on their device, without needing internet connectivity - ### Backyard AI
Backyard AI offers immersive text adventures and AI-powered chat with customizable characters, enabling interactive stories through a desktop app that supports offline use - ### GPT4ALL
GPT4ALL provides accessible, open-source language models for local deployment, allowing users to leverage advanced AI capabilities without the need for extensive resources or cloud services. - ### LM Studio
LM Studio offers tools and solutions for developing and deploying large language models locally, providing a graphical user interface (GUI) - ### Ollama
Ollama provides advanced AI models for local usage on your device, allowing users to run AI applications without needing cloud or internet access. - ### Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot is an AI-powered assistant that integrates with Microsoft 365 applications using a version of ChatGPT-4, offering an alternative to needing to sign in to chat.openai.com. - ### Google’s NotebookLM
An LLM that lets you choose specific sources from which to draw. - ### poe.com – Create your own chatbot
Create your own chatbot that will only answer questions framed by the initial prompt you give it. - ### ChatGPT
Good for: generating content, translating text, and answering and asking questions.
Images
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OpenAI’s image text to image bot; free for those who registered before April 6, 2023, otherwise paid - ### Stability AI releases SDXL 1.0. Create images from text.
StabilityAI has released their SDXL 1.0 model which can generate images based on text descriptions.
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- Nightcafe: free for lower-resolution images; otherwise requires credits (some are provided free)
- Craiyon: free tier that takes longer to generate images; paid tier produces them faster
- Scribble Diffusion: generates images based on a user-inputted sketch plus text
- Stable Diffusion: free image generator through a web interface that generates multiple images based on a single prompt
Writing
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Chat your way through long documents, including PDFs and other research or writing material. Summarize long documents.
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- Moonbeam: supports writing longer texts such as blog posts, articles, essays, and more.
- Sudowrite: creates first drafts based on concepts, users can ask it to describe, expand, rewrite, provide feedback, and more.
- Quillbot: provides a way to paraphrase and summarize inputted text, among other functions.
- Rytr: generates text according to templates such as blog posts, stories, emails; rewords, expands, shortens text
- Wordtune: generates text, rewords, paraphrases, expands text; also has a function that summarizes videos in YouTube
- Writesonic: generates text, summarizes articles, paraphrases, and more
- Search engines with chat functions, such as Bing AI Search Engine, perplexity.ai, and you.com.
Presentation
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- Tome: generates presentations based on text or even a short prompt, complete with AI-generated images
- Beautiful.ai: has a “designer bot” that can generate images or text or revise text for slides
Video editing
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- Descript: edit videos by editing text transcripts, including cutting, removing filler words, changing words, and more
- Kaiber.ai: AI-generated videos using AI-generated art, based on uploaded images or video, and music added by the user.
Neurodivergence/Learning differences
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A collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult
Programming
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- Github Copilot: suggests code and functions in real time based on context in comments and previous code.
- Tabnine: similar to Copilot, with a few differences including the claim to only train the models on open source code with licenses that permit such use.
Research
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Search Citation Statements directly for relevant facts and insights. Track trends and get insights from groups of papers. Screen manuscripts as you write to ensure you’re using high quality references. - ### PhotoSolve
OCR and AI combined to help read and analyze questions with the potential to show answers to those questions based on images. - ### Jenni.ai
Research paper writing helper with inline citations, AI Text auto complete, research library, and more - ### Research Rabbit
Literature search, new research alerts, research collections, and digests
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- Elicit: can find relevant papers without perfect keyword match, summarize takeaways from the paper specific to a question, and extract key information from the papers
- NaimAI: helps with literature reviews by searching for articles according to keywords. Can also generate a literature review.
- Semantic Scholar: searches several publishers and preprint servers to provide academic papers relevant to a query, along with short TLDR summaries, abstracts, citations; also has a reader that provides tables of contents, highlights key points, and more
- Humata.ai: can summarize long documents such as PDFs, answer questions about them, and also support writing based on the content of those documents