Subject & Research Guides: AI Developments and Resources for Library Staff: Tools

What we currently have access to through the College

Please see the Generative AI Tools available through Connecticut College guide for the most up to date information on what tools are available .

Since there are so many generative AI tools these days, it can be difficult to decide which one to use for a particular task.

A helpful way to think about this is to look at whether the tool is grounded in a source of facts.

Not grounded - these models rely only on their training data

Grounded - these models can also use web search results or other types of search results (see below)

Google Gemini (free & pro versions) - available in your Connecticut College Google apps; added data protection, so your data isn’t used to train or improve any generative AI models
ChatGPT Plus (GPT4), $20/mo
ChatGPT-4o (free & pro versions)
Perplexity AI (free & pro versions)
Microsoft Copilot (free & pro versions)

Adobe Firefly (free and $) - Use generative AI and simple text prompts to create images, text effects, and color palettes. Make all-new content from reference images and explore more possibilities.
Adobe Image Background Remover (free and $) - Pull in an image and download a version of it with a transparent background. Use other quick actions like GIF and MP4 converters, video trim and resize, and more.
Canva Magic Studio (free and $) - Combines AI image generation and editing in one tool, helping users create the perfect images for their specific use cases
Colormind IO (free) - Color scheme generator that uses deep learning. It can learn color styles from photographs, movies, and popular art.

Elicit: The AI Research Assistant (free and $) - Finds relevant papers without perfect keyword match, summarizes takeaways from the paper specific to your question, and extracts key information from the papers. While answering questions with research is the main focus of Elicit, there are also other research tasks that help with brainstorming, summarization, and text classification.
Inciteful.xyz (free) - Includes two tools. Paper Discovery builds a network of papers from citations and uses network analysis algorithms to analyze the network, allowing you to identify the most similar papers, important papers, prolific authors and institutions. Literature Connector allows you to enter two papers and provides an interactive visualization showing how they are connected by the literature.
Perplexity AI (free and $) - An AI powered search engine designed to provide more comprehensive and accurate answers than traditional search engines. It gives summaries of search results and also supplies the online sources it utilized in providing them, making it effortless for users to validate the information.
Research Rabbit (free) - An online “citation-based literature mapping tool." It is a visual literature review software mapping tool that is similar to Spotify. The tool connects your research interests to related articles and authors

ChatGPT (free and $) - An artificial intelligence large language model that can engage in conversational interactions and provide responses to a wide range of queries. Possible classroom uses include brainstorming, summarization, editing, coding.
Claude (free and $) - Anthropic's Claude can process large amounts of information, brainstorm ideas, generate text and code, help you understand subjects, coach you through difficult situations, help simplify your busywork so you can focus on what matters most, and so much more.
Google Gemini (free and $) - Collaborate with Gemini (formerly Bard) to brainstorm ideas, spark creativity, and accelerate productivity.
Perplexity AI (free and $) - An AI powered search engine designed to provide more comprehensive and accurate answers than traditional search engines. It gives summaries of search results and also supplies the online sources it utilized in providing them, making it effortless for users to validate the information.

Canva (free and $) - Design infographics, presentations, social media graphics, and more with thousands of beautiful layouts. Try their text to image AI tool
HeyGen (free and $) - A video creation tool that includes Text to Speech, AI Avatars, Custom Avatars, Generative Outfit and Voice Cloning features
kapwing (free and $) - A modern video creation platform that helps teams make great content faster.
Night Cafe (free) - Create amazing artworks in seconds using the power of Artificial Intelligence, participate in AI Art Challenges, chat with AI Art enthusiasts, and more. Try an art generator now! Join millions of other AI Art enthusiasts and explore, like and comment on the top AI generated images and AI styles.

Connected Papers (free and $) - A visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.
Litmaps (free and $) - Finds articles relevant to your search criteria and displays them in visual maps so you can see how the literature is connected.
Research Rabbit (free) - An online “citation-based literature mapping tool." It is a visual literature review software mapping tool that is similar to Spotify. The tool connects your research interests to related articles and authors

Canva Magic Presentation - (free and $) - Get a head start on your slides and let Magic Presentation create a professional presentation, tailored to your content.
SlidesAI.io (free and $) - SlidesAI.io is an add-on for Google Slides. With SlidesAI.io you can take any piece of text and transform it magically into visually appealing slides.
Slides to Go: AI Presentation Maker (free and $) - When lack of inspiration or time constraints are something you’re worried about, it’s a good idea to seek help. Slidesgo comes to the rescue with its latest functionality—the AI Presentation Maker! With a few clicks, you’ll have wonderful slideshows that suit your own needs.