5 Mind blowing AI tools every researcher should know about *but doesn't*

the first tool you should know about is sourcely sourcely is an AI power tool for finding summarizing and formatting sources for your academic papers and the great thing is you can check out its power for free so click on free and you get sent down to this box here and you can type in your essay or essay title but they have given me sourcefully Pro so let's go check it out here let's just give it like the minimum amount of information to see how well this really does let's say that I want to find out about new materials for transparent electrode materials that is two materials anyway let's go for it let's say fine sources so here it says please uh wait this may take a minute so we're just going to wait and that was surprisingly quick I didn't have to wait very long at all then down here you can see that we've got a load of Publications you can download the publication if it's got a PDF you can get a summary which is really great getting a summary just means that you can cite this um and know what the main points are but obviously this is no sub attitude for actually going and reading the paper you've been warned so here you can see it gives a nice summary all on the app now let's just see what's special about this because there are other things that you can use to find uh references but if we go to pricing this is where you kind of really find out what you're getting the first thing I like is that it's not very expensive only seven dollars a month you can see here that you get pasting of your entire essay so if you've got an essay and you want to find sources to increase its credibility you can put that in there brilliant and you've got assured credibility of sources now I'm not quite sure what that means but I'm pleased that there's some level of quality control going on behind the scenes before they give you the sources the one thing I love about the sources that it brings up is that they are from very reputable sources they are things that I would have used in the past and you can go visit the paper just to make sure you can download it to your device or put it in your reference manager this is a really great tool that I think every single researchers should know about because finding reliable sources is one of the hardest things about doing any sort of early stage research now of course any AI tool like this needs to be used in collaboration with your own knowledge you can't just follow these blindly but the fact that you've got another way to find sources and you can do it largely for free or a very low cost means that it just makes it so much easier this in combination with something like illicit.org I think would be incredibly powerful for really making sure that you've got everything you need to know about a particular subject the second tool that I think you need to know about is mirror thing now here we are this says general AI for science that is a big claim and so here you can see welcome to mirror think and it's got loads of very sort of like sciency based suggestions which is not something that chat GPT has now this is a very similar layout to chat EBT so it should be easy for anyone that's come coming from that service to this one you can see you've got literature reviews facts checking Wolfram Alpha for mathematical accuracy technology scouting science funding and experimental protocols let's just click on some of these to see what's happening oh and also down here you've got find papers find patents and then ask Wolfram so if by clicking on find papers you can see that it puts this little dialog box and now let's find papers again for transparent electrodes oh we are afraid you're no longer eligible to use mirror thing for free well that's a shame all right let's upgrade pay what you want all right pay what you want that's not so bad let's say covers costs all right let's go that so now that I've actually paid what I wanted you can see that I've got a few more options down here I've got web research and literature reviews so with the extra bit of money I've invested this is really appealing to the scientists and research here in me because this is all of the language that I want all of the information that I would use AI for in one place so it gives me a lot of confidence I'm asking it to write a literature review on organic photovoltaic devices and here it's coming up with a plan so this is more like an agent rather than something like uh chat GPT strictly because it seems to be knowing what it wants to come up with so there's multiple AI agents working together to produce a literature review the one thing I love about this is It's grabbing loads of different types of papers in different sort of like um sub sections of that field so here it's reading paper one of five you can see that it's going through and it's actually reading the paper and producing a little summary which is great I wonder what it's going to do at the end is it going to combine it all or is it just going to give me these kind of like paper summaries this is actually quite exciting to me um I've never seen anything like this before I actually really like it and here it's composing an answer for me let's see what it's like all right so it does that same thing where it's sort of like just run out of memory I think and so it just stops and I've just said continue and it is continuing the one thing I love about this is it's giving me long form content it's giving me references where it's referenced in the paragraph and also it just keeps on giving an awesome amount of information I think that this is actually one of the best AI tools I've seen specifically made for science and research they said General AI for Science and they're starting to deliver on it no doubt every part of science is covered from literature review to finding findings to looking for new technology finding experimental protocols it just all seems to be there and it seems to be doing a pretty good job at it so mirrorthink is certainly something you should be checking out if you like that tour remember to stay around because there's tools that really surprise me coming up from companies that haven't even released their main product yet and that gets me excited the third tool you should know about is Julius this is an AI power data analysis tool here you can see you've got chat you've got your own personal AI data analyst and you can upload your files now I get asked a lot on this channel about like the security of your data once you upload it to servers here they say all of these files are for your current session they will remain available for an hour after your last use after which all the files will be permanently removed from our servers I hope that's enough to convince people that this is a safe service for them use cases for Julius you can is marketing Healthcare Academia yeah that's what I want to know about so let's have a look at the full Julius conversation you can do this go to Julius and check out this conversation to see what can really be done with this tool so here you can see that he they just inspected the file the data has been successfully loaded here's a snapshot so then you can prompt it by saying stuff like this data is from the 2022 General Social Survey we are going to try to analyze which features contribute most to happiness now you can do something like this in chat GPT code interpreter only if you're paying for it I've done all this for free at the moment go check it out for yourself the fourth tool that I think you should know about is hey science hey science is your personal AI research assistant that can read millions of scientific papers for you now here's the thing is that it's not currently available I've asked for Early Access but I've not got it yet but one thing that excited me and the one thing I want to report on to you today is this AI reviewer this AI Reviewer is essentially a review from your supervisor or peers without the out of office responses which we love so this is a way of getting your paper checked before it even touches your supervisor's desk I think this could be an absolute game changer for those with their supervisors who are less than enthusiastic about reading your work so let's upload one of my old papers and see what it does here you can see it's analyzing my manuscript so on the next page you can actually enter your Journal where you want it to go if you need a journal recommendation they'll also give it to you and that's great if you're an early stage research you're not sure where different papers go and so you can see here that it says polymers solar energy materials and solar cells is actually where it ended up and nature Communications oh I wish so it's giving me actually pretty good information it's got title suggestions it's got abstracting keywords I've got knees revision oh no you should have those keywords in your abstract and other important parts of your paper so it's done a pretty good job at sort of like finding those it gives me information about why it's not novel and why it's 77 or maybe 77 something similar to another paper and so once it's all finished we've got a review of the paper strengths and weaknesses so this is just like a reviewer would give you after peer review these are all things that you can at least to be aware of that may be brought up by other potential researchers and peer reviewers in the future once you submit it so being on the front foot with these may be a really fantastic way to ensuring that you can answer those questions when they pop up and you can even do this for something like just before a talk so you know where the strengths and weaknesses are of your talk so that then you can sort of like prepare slides to answer those weaknesses directly a really great tool and something that makes me pretty excited for what Hay science has in store and the fifth tool that I want you to know about is versaill.ai essentially this is a way to compare multiple language models with each other in real time so you can see here we've got open AI which is there and then over here we've got meta llama and we can type in the same prompt to each chat so here I want to say give me a summary of organic photovolte the device is so it goes off it puts it in two different large language models and it essentially allows you to compare them directly why would you want to do this well it's because different language models give you different strengths with different questions and it can be a little bit tricky to work out which one you should use this gives you a perfect comparison of different types of large language models and you may find one that's better for your research and your use case than chat GPT so give it a go and let me know what you think if you like this video remember to go check out this one where I talk about the six academic AI tools that you need to know about so there we have it there's everything you need to know about the AI tools that you need to know about for research let me know in the comments what you would add and also there are more ways that you can engage with me first of all go check out my newsletter at andrewsaveton.com.au forward slash newsletter the link is in the description and when you sign up you'll get five emails over about two weeks everything from the tools I've used the podcast I've been on how to write the perfect abstract and more it's exclusive content available for free so go check it out now also go check out academiainsider.com that's my project where I've got my ebooks I've got my resource packs I've got a Blog I've got a forum and everything's over there to make sure that Academia works for you all right then I'll see you in the next video

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Published: Thu Aug 17 2023