AI Resources Beneficial for Teachers' Academic Exploration

In the realm of artificial intelligence, ChatGPT has been making waves in the education sector. However, there are three other AI-based research tools that have proven to be just as useful, albeit less known. Let's delve into Bohrium, Consensus, and Perplexity.

First up is Perplexity, a user-friendly AI interface backed by Jeff Bezos. Unlike ChatGPT, Perplexity provides sources for the information it gathers, ensuring academic integrity. The free version of Perplexity includes the ability to create saved collections of research, making it easy to organise and revisit your findings. Perplexity can sustain an ongoing conversation to refine search results and weed out unnecessary or less desirable information. It also offers a mobile app version and a Chrome extension for easy access.

Next, we have Consensus. This AI interface is designed to analyse results from scholarly journals, ensuring all findings are tied to actual studies and sources are cited. Consensus prioritises search results with an index of options from most likely to least. It also allows filtering of time-range for more recent or specific results. One of Consensus's standout features is the generation of a unique link to your specific research query for later access, and it provides APA, MLA, and other format citation references. Consensus also offers a paragraph response to your prompt, footnoting the supporting research, and generates a one-sentence overview of the research evidence.

Last but not least, we have Bohrium, an academic resource search tool that offers paper analysis, real-time research tracking, and collaborative knowledge graphs. Bohrium streamlines literature review and analysis, making it an invaluable tool for students and researchers alike.

While Perplexity operates like other chatbots, it is less well-known compared to ChatGPT. Elicit, another lesser-known tool, provides a paragraph response to your prompt and footnotes the supporting research. However, it does not have a simple mechanism to grab an APA- or MLA-cited reference. Upgraded options for Elicit are available, but the free model offers what is needed for research.

These three AI research tools are shaking up the education sector, providing valuable resources for students and researchers. While ChatGPT may still be the most recognisable name, it's worth exploring these lesser-known tools to streamline your research process and ensure academic integrity.