Artificial Intelligence Tools

FredGPT is Fairleigh Dickinson University’s artificial intelligence chatbot designed to assist faculty and staff with a range of tasks, providing information and support tailored to the university’s community and resources.

Copilot is a suite of Microsoft’s AI-powered assistants that help with tasks like writing, summarizing, data analysis, and coding across various Microsoft products and platforms. It functions as a productivity tool integrated into applications like Word, Excel, and Teams, and also exists as a standalone chat interface for general queries and image creation.

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI that uses natural language processing to generate human-like text in a conversational way. It is a form of generative AI that can respond to a wide range of questions, write various types of content like articles, code, and emails, summarize long documents, and assist with tasks such as planning vacations or building resumes.

Gemini is a family of multimodal large language models developed by Google that powers various AI tools, including the Gemini conversational AI assistant and integrations across Google’s product suite like Google Workspace and Google Home.

Claude AI is a conversational AI assistant developed by the company Anthropic, which uses a large language model to generate human-like text. It can be used for a wide range of tasks, such as answering questions, summarizing documents, writing code, brainstorming ideas, and analyzing information. A key feature is its focus on safety and ethics, using a “Constitutional AI” approach to be helpful, honest, and harmless.

Perplexity AI is an “answer engine” that combines a search engine with conversational AI to provide direct, detailed answers to questions, complete with citations from online sources. Unlike a traditional search engine that lists links, Perplexity generates a single, coherent response using real-time web searches and can perform tasks like summarizing text or comparing viewpoints. It offers different “modes” for varied needs, from quick searches to in-depth research.

Gemini Image Generator is a Google AI tool that creates and edits images from text or image prompts. Users can describe a scene to generate a new image, or upload an existing image to modify, with the ability to refine the results through natural language commands. This tool can also generate interleaved text-image content and offers various capabilities through platforms like Gemini Apps and the Google AI Studio.

Copilot Image Generator is an AI-powered tool integrated within Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 applications that creates custom visuals from natural language text prompts. It uses advanced generative AI models, primarily OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and GPT-4o, to turn users' descriptive ideas into images. The functionality is largely provided by the existing Microsoft Designer service.

Adobe Firefly is a family of generative AI tools that create content from text prompts or existing images. It's designed for creative tasks and is integrated into Adobe's Creative Cloud apps like Photoshop and Illustrator, as well as a standalone web application. Firefly can generate a wide range of content, including images, video clips, and vectors, and also features tools for editing, brainstorming, and applying effects to text.

Suno is an AI-powered music creation platform that generates original songs, including vocals and instrumentals, from text prompts. Users can describe a genre, mood, or topic, and Suno will create a complete song with lyrics and music in seconds.

ElevenLabs is an AI company specializing in generating realistic audio, including advanced text-to-speech (TTS), voice cloning, and dubbing. It provides tools for creators and businesses to convert scripts into speech with various voices and languages, clone existing voices, and translate video content automatically.

Veo3 is Google’s advanced text-to-video AI model that generates high-quality video clips from text prompts, complete with realistic audio. It can create cinematic and realistic videos that incorporate soundscapes, realistic physics, and natural movement. Veo3 is integrated into Google’s ecosystem, including Vertex AI and the Gemini app, and is also used in applications like Canva.

Sora is a text-to-video AI model and social media application developed by OpenAI that generates realistic, high-quality video clips from text prompts or still images. It has gained attention for its ability to create complex scenes and simulate lifelike motion and physics, challenging traditional methods of video production.

Magic School AI is an AI platform designed to help educators save time and energy by generating educational content and streamlining tasks. It offers over 60 AI-powered tools for teachers to use for things like creating lesson plans, writing IEPs (Individualized Education Programs), differentiating instruction, and generating assessments. The platform also includes tools for students, such as writing feedback and character chatbots, and features to help districts implement AI confidently, with a focus on safety and privacy.

Khanmigo is an AI-powered assistant from Khan Academy that functions as a personal tutor for students and a teaching assistant for educators. It provides personalized tutoring, helps with homework by guiding students to answers instead of just giving them, and assists teachers with tasks like creating lesson plans, discussion prompts, and rubrics. The tool is built with a focus on safety and learning, and it integrates with Khan Academy’s existing content.

NotebookLM is a Google AI research and note-taking assistant that acts as a personalized research partner, grounding its responses in documents, articles, and other sources that you provide. It helps you understand complex material by summarizing information, answering questions based on your sources, and generating new ideas. Unlike general chatbots, NotebookLM is “source-grounded,” meaning its AI is limited to the information you upload, which includes text, Google Docs, PDFs, and YouTube videos.

ResearchRabbit is a free online tool that helps researchers conduct literature reviews by using algorithms to suggest relevant academic papers and authors. It allows users to create collections of papers and then visualizes citation networks to help them discover related research and leading contributors in a field. The platform can also import existing collections from other tools like Zotero and offers features like alerts for new publications.

Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant that helps users find, analyze, and summarize academic papers and literature. It can find relevant papers, extract key data from PDFs, generate lists of concepts, and even help with the entire systematic review process, from screening to report generation. It uses language models to go beyond simple keyword searches and grasps the meaning behind a research question, making it useful for tasks like literature reviews and brainstorming.