Generative AI in Education: Generative AI Tools

There are many generative AI tools extant with many more in development. These tools generate text, image, audio or video, but there plenty of other things that these tools can do. Note that some of the tools are free and some of these will have paid versions. Most - free or not - require an account to be created before use.

This is a representative list of AI tools that are available at the time of writing and is not meant as a comprehensive listing, nor are any these tools endorsed by the Digital Library.

Note: all tools are capable of giving inaccurate and spurious responses, so it is a good idea to independently confirm tool outputs!

Text-Generating AI

Co-Pilot (formerly Bing Chat)

Microsoft's AI-powered chatbot ocused on searching for the web for information and images.

Byte

An AI chatbot for use in education. No sign-in required and no user data collected

Character.ai

Users can create "characters", craft their "personalities", set specific parameters, and then publish them to the community for others to chat with

ChatGPT

The best known and most commonly used generative AI tool

Claude

Created by Anthropic, a company backed by Google, this is billed "as easier to talk to" than ChatGPT

Gemini

Google's AI-powered chatbot tool that uses natural language processing and machine learning

Jasper

A popular AI writing tool

Perplexity AI

An "AI research assistant" for searching for information online. Has a Chrome extension

PI AI

Designed to function as an AI-based personal assistant. Apple and Android apps available

Poe

An AI chatbot aggregator - talk to and query a variety of different AI models

Scribe

Business process documentation: create e.g., guides, SOPs and training manuals

Twee

"A.I. Powered Tools for English Teachers" - Create questions for any YouTube video in just a few seconds Generate dialogues, stories, letters or articles on any topic. Note this poor review from March 2023

"ChatPDF" and Research Assistance

There are a variety of AI chatbot tool that promise analysis of PDFs. These may be useful; for interrogating scholarly/academic/research output such as books and articles. These tools use natural language processing to interpret text from PDFs, hence you can ask questions of the chatbot to summarise, analyse and interpret the contents of PDFs. Some are free but most operate on a freemium basis. Some examples (all require you to upload the PDF unless otherwise stated):

Ask Your PDF

Chat With PDF (paperguide.ai)

Chat With PDF (hipdf.com)

Chat with PDF (Smallpdf.com)

ChatPDF (OpenAI - the developers of ChatGPT)

ChatPDF (monica.im)

Consensus (ask a question and get conclusions from research papers)

docanalyzer.ai

Elicit (Ask a research question and get back a list of relevant papers and a one sentence summary)

Explainpaper

Notepad LM

A "Personalised AI research assistant" that will summarise PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, audio files, Google Docs, or Google Slides and make interesting connections between topics. It can also produce podcast style output. For example, here is a Notepad LM-generated discussion of the Potential Uses page in this section. This discussion of summarising errors is also worth reading.

PDF.ai

Research Rabbit

A “citation-based literature mapping tool” for finding articles when you're starting your research.

SciSpace

"Do hours' worth of reading in minutes" - ask research questions or upload PDFs for analysis

Education

Anywyse

Transform textbooks into educational audio-bites using AI

Bril AI

Generates personalised video courses on different topics and quizzes to test the user's knowledge

Brisk

An AI-powered teacher productivity tool that helps educators complete tasks more efficiently. Free Chrome extension

Eduaide.ai

Collaborate with Generative AI to create, refine, and personalise instructional materials (appears to be free)

Education CoPilot

Generate lesson plans & other educational materials in seconds. Free trial available

Fetchy

A virtual assistant for educators. Free for seven days

Feedback Fruits

An AI platform that aims to improve students’ academic writing by providing feedback on their writing style

Graide

AI-powered essay-grading tool

Jamworks

Note-taking app that can turn lectures into study materials - text notes, video chapters, interactive flashcards or personalised AI chatbots.

Keath

Provides feedback on learners assignments

MagicSchool.ai

A suite of AI-powered tools to boost learning design and delivery for educators. Sign up for free

Parlay Genie

A.I. Generated Discussion Prompts (appears to be free)

QuestionWell

Generate an endless supply of questions

Study Fetch

Upload course materials and create study sets

Teacherbot

Create activities and plans for any level and subject (paid only)

Teachermatic

Simply input your desired topic and the app will generate a variety of materials, including lesson plans, activities, worksheets, and more. Limited free option.

Images

Artbreeder

Create characters, artworks and more with multiple AI powered tools

Craiyon

Open-source version of DALL-E

DALL-E 2

Create realistic images and art from text prompts (payment required)

Imagine

Meta's entry into the image generation fray. Not currently available in Ireland

Nightcafe

Completely free text to image AI

Scribble Diffusion

Turn your sketch (or scribble) into a refined image using a text prompt and AI. Free

Stable Diffusion

Text to photorealistic image

Starryai

Generate art simply by describing what you want to see

AI Detection Tools

Note none of these tools will be 100% accurate and will be biased against non-native English speakers

Best AI Detector | Free & Premium Tools Compared

Reviews and comparison of 10 AI detection tools from Scribblr

Content at Scale AI Detector

See if your text reads as human or AI generated

Copyleaks AI Detector

AI detecting tool from a company previously working in plagiarism detection

GPTZero

AI-generated content detection system developed to identify and analyse artificially generated text, specifically focusing on text produced by AI language models

Maybe's AI Art Detector