There's a wide range of generative AI tools, which you can use for a variety of purposes and tasks, such as writing, finding sources, summarizing sources, and more.
The Generative AI Product Tracker is a comprehensive list of generative AI tools used by students and faculty for learning, research, and teaching. The document is separated by type of tool, which you can see definitions and examples of in the table below. Use the type of tool links to go directly to that section in the Generative AI Product Tracker, or view the entire document embedded below.
Type of Tool | Purpose | Examples |
General purpose | Use these tools for all of the purposes listed below, to varying degree | OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, Anthropic's Claude |
Discovery | Find and evaluate academic sources | Consensus, Elicit, ResearchRabbit, Inciteful |
Teaching & learning | For teachers and students to use for teaching and learning activities | Clarivate's Alethea, Wolfram Problem Generator |
Workflow | Improve academic workflows, such as summarizing academic articles or note-taking | DocAnalysis, Google's NotebookLM |
Writing |
Generate text and edit your writing |
Springer Nature's Curie (MS Word extension), Digital Science's Writefull, Grammerly |
Coding | Generate code and edit your code | Meta's Code Llama, GitHub's Copilot |
Image generation |
Generate and modify images |
OpenAI’s DALL-E, Midjourney, Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, and Adobe Firefly |
Acknowledgements: the Generative AI Product Tracker is provided by ITHAKA S+R, available here.