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While some AI-based tools might come to your mind right away, there are a lot of different tools out there with a lot of different uses. As you evaluate how to use these tools responsibly in your academic work, it is useful to keep the wide range of potential uses in mind. You or your instructor might want to use one kind of tool for a certain situation but not others. The sections below explore some potential applications of AI. Please note that this list is not comprehensive or an endorsement of any particular tool used in the examples.
Some tools, such as Grammarly and QuillBot, will give you writing or paraphrasing suggestions, and other tools including Bing AI, Claude, ChatGPT, and Google's Bard, will generate new text or code based on a prompt from you.
Quillbot
Grammarly
Bing Chat
Some tools will generate unique images for you based on a text prompt, such as DALL-E, Adobe Firefly, and Midjourney.
Prompt: "Testudo at University of Maryland" (Bing Image Creator)
Prompt: "Testudo at University of Maryland in the style of Wes Anderson" (Bing Image Creator)
Prompt: "Child's crayon drawing of Testudo at University of Maryland" (Bing Image Creator)
Some tools will use written text to generate spoken language or to create talking video avatars, including Synthesia and PlayHT.
Synthesia
PlayHT
Some tools, including Bing AI and Elicit, will help you find research articles or links.
Bing AI
Elicit
