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ChatGPT and AI Literacy

Large Language Models (LLMs)

ChatGPT logo ChatGPT

Open AI
Free
Trained on data only through October 2023.

As of April 2024, you can use it without creating an account.

Additional features (with usage rate limits)

  • Browse the web and obtain up-to-date information

  • Upload images in your prompts

  • Provide support files in your prompts

  • Discover and use GPTs

ChatGPT Plus logo ChatGPT Plus

Open AI
Has a monthly fee, built on GPT-4.

Includes:

  • web search
  • data analysis
  • coding
  • vision (upload images and ask questions about them)
  • Image generation

Build chatbots without using code. These are called "GPTs."

Enterprise edition for large businesses. Teams account for small business.


As of September 2024, there's a new model called o1-preview.

This model is useful for coding and specialized tasks in science, technology,
engineering, and math. 


It can spend time considering different solutions before it responds.

Microsoft Copilot logo Microsoft Copilot Microsoft
Free, built on GPT-4 (If you use Creative mode)
Generate images with DALL-E 3 using Bing Image Creator or Microsoft Designer.

Includes web search results.

Copilot Pro Plan with more features for individuals.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 with more features for institutions and businesses.
Google Bard logo Gemini
 
Google
Free, built on Gemini Pro.
Includes web search results from Google.

Gemini Advanced is built on Gemini Ultra (for a monthly fee)
Claude logo Claude

Anthropic
Free. 
Built on their own model: Claude 3.5 Sonnet which includes:

  • data analysis
  • coding
  • vision (upload images and ask questions about them)

Pro version ($20/mo) 

Focused on reliability and safety.
No web search results. Trained on data through April 2024.

Perplexity AI Perplexity
Free. Includes web search results, with citations.
Offers "Focus" choices such as
YouTube, Reddit, Semantic Scholar ,and Wolfram|Alpha.

You can use it without creating an account.

Pro account ($20/mo) allows a choice between several models:
GPT-4o, Claude, and others.

Other useful tools based on LLMs

These tools are based on language models like GPT-3 or GPT-4 (from Open AI).

Explainpaper
Upload a PDF, highlight confusing text, and get a simpler explanation. Useful for reading research papers outside your field. You can also get explanations in languages other than English. 

 

Elicit
Find answers from 175 million research papers. Elicit uses semantic similarity, which finds papers related to your question even if they don't use the same keywords. See How to use Elicit responsibly.

 

Keenious
Keenious is a resource recommender tool designed to aid in the identification and discovery of scholarly research.

It analyzes writing from text documents and PDFs to recommend the most relevant articles and topics to explore using artificial intelligence combined with conventional search algorithms. It seamlessly integrates with library resources to minimize paywalls and is freely available to all CEU affiliates. Our access to Keenious is IP-based and available in the Vienna campus or if you are off-campus, make sure you are connected to the CEU VPN.
 

Scite AI assistant
A conversational tool made by Scite that lets you ask questions in simple language and get answers backed by real, up to date references. Think of like ChatGPT with real, up to date references, tailor-made for anyone discovering, understanding, or writing research.

   
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