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AI in Academia: AI Tools in Academia

💡 Keep in Mind 💡

There is a wide range of AI tools with unique strengths and uses. It's advised to try out several of them and choose which suits your particular field and research needs.

Given the rapid expanse of AI agents, our lists do not cover all existing tools, but do offer those that we found to be most contributive to research in personal use.

Most of the tools on the market work on a Freemium model - certain usage is free, while additional features are only available to paid subscribers.

In any case, feel free to consult with the library staff for additional information.

AI Tools



A popular language model developed by OpenAI. Allows dialogue with artificial intelligence for information mining, answering questions, writing code and text, performing text analysis tasks such as summarization and data extraction, and more.

 

A language model from Google. Allows human-like responses in chat and real-time access to the internet, information mining, high-level text analysis and generation, image search, and more. Has good support for the Hebrew language.

 

A language model from Anthropic that allows chat conversation with artificial intelligence, performing text-based operations, managing and analyzing information, uploading and working with text files, and more. Excellent support for the Hebrew language.

 

An AI-based language model from Microsoft. Allows chat dialogue and receiving information mined from the Bing search engine. Incorporates the use of highly-recommended DALL-E image generator.

 

DictaLM 2.0 is an Israeli-made LM developed by the Dicta NPO. It's currently running as a demo and is open for all. Needless to say its Hebrew capabilities are its major selling point, but being in development, its LLM capabilities might still be a work-in-progress. Let us know what you think!

 

 

An internet-connected language model that allows work in a model adapted for academic work. In addition to the usual LLM capabilities, this model also provides direct links to information sources it relies on.

 

An AI-powered search engine for academic articles available online. This engine works with research questions, presents informative snapshots with references directly from the used sources in response to queries, and provides links to relevant articles.

 

An AI-powered search engine for academic articles available online. This engine works with research questions, topics, or keywords, displays summary information about all suggested articles in a table format, and provides links to the articles themselves when possible.

 

An AI-powered search engine for academic articles available online. This engine works with research questions, topics, or keywords, displays information about relevant articles in a table format, provides links to the articles themselves when possible, and allows working with and analyzing specific files.

 

An AI-based bibliographic mapping tool. This tool bases off a main article uploaded by the user and uses it to create a visual map of bibliographic items in the field researched in the article. The tool provides links when possible, bibliographic details, citation information, and references to additional sources. It also can create bibliographic lists.

 

An AI-based bibliographic mapping tool. This tool bases off a main article uploaded by the user and uses it to create a visual map of bibliographic items in the field researched in the article. The tool provides links when possible, bibliographic details, citation information, and references to additional sources.

 

An AI-based bibliographic mapping tool. This tool bases off a main article uploaded by the user and uses it to create a visual map of bibliographic items in the field researched in the article. The tool provides links when possible, bibliographic details, citation information, and references to additional sources. It also can connect to Zotero.

An AI-based tool for searching academic sources available online. This tool can analyze input text and suggest articles that support the claims found in the text.

An AI-based ibliographic mapping tool. It works with keywords and creates a visual map of secondary sources while grouping findings by related topics. Provides links to articles, bibliographic details, and research contexts.


An AI-based research tool that performs thorough literature survey based on a research query posed in natural language. Purported to specialize in complex queries and deep searches.

 

A browser add-on from SciSpace. Enables chatting with webpages, summarizing and translating content, searching for relevant articles, and more from the browser itself.

 

A browser add-on that detects institutional affiliation on external websites and allows quick and easy download of PDF files of articles or website content displayed.

 

 

 

An in-browser PDF reader add-on from Google. Capable to creating outlines of the content and provide direct links to specific paragraphs.

A powerful tool for creating presentations using AI technology. The tool works based on prompts, creates design, text, and images, suggests changes upon request, and allows you to "ask" the tool for necessary changes.



A dedicated add-on for Google Slides that creates presentations from text. The add-on will suggest design, provide images, edit text, and split the content according to the required number of slides.


A new AI-based feature on the well-known Slidesgo (presentation templates website). This add-on can create a presentation of up to 8 slides with a simple prompt, and provides an excellent basis for starting work.

An AI-based tool for creating graphs based on data files. You can "chat" with the file, design graphs, draw conclusions from the data, and more.

A ChatGPT-based graph building tool. It allows the use of data copied from spreadsheets in various formats, designing and editing graphs using prompts. Working with the tool is free, but publishing the results requires purchasing a license.

An AI-based tool that enables the creation of visual aids such as flowcharts, graphs, timelines, and more.

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A dedicated tool for study assistance that can record, transcribe, and summarize live lessons. Organizes notes, generates insights, and allows creating proficiency tests.

 

A virtual notebook from Google that allows organizing and managing information, summaries, notes, file uploads, and more. One of the tool's standout features is podcast creation.

 

A time management and meeting transcription tool that can connect to Zoom meetings (or lessons), transcribe them, summarize, and extract tasks from the content.

An AI-based transcription tool. Israeli development. Works excellently in Hebrew, allows downloading of text files in various formats.

An AI-based transcription tool. Supports Hebrew and Arabic. Allows editing of transcriptions and exporting text files.

 

An AI-based transcription tool. Provides transcription of video and audio files, allows summarization of the text and asking questions about the transcription content.

 


An AI-based transcription tool that allows transcription of text and video files.

 



An AI-based transcription and translation tool (also supports Hebrew). There's a free option, but the paid subscription works without audio time limits.

 


An AI-based transcription tool. Can also provide translation and subtitles. Reasonable support for Hebrew. Limited free use.

Last Updated

This guide was last updated on 01.12.2024

The field of Generative AI constantly evolves and so are its resources.
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