Last edited on October 4, 2024
Introduction
This comprehensive list of AI tools is categorized by functionality and application. These tools are available on either a free or premium basis. This list is regularly reviewed and updated to reflect the latest advancements in AI technology relevant to medical education, research, and clinical practice.
Disclaimer: Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University does not endorse any specific tool listed here. Users are responsible for adhering to institutional guidelines and considering ethical implications when using these tools.
AI-powered health-related tools
- Medical Chat: An advanced AI chatbot powered by GPT technology, designed for health professionals. It provides precise answers to complex medical questions, assists doctors in daily work, and educates patients on important medication considerations.
- Woebot: An AI-powered Relational Agent for Mental Health, aiding individuals in improving their mental well-being through cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques.
- Glass AI: A powerful AI-driven knowledge management system developed by Glass Health, focusing on organizing and retrieving health-related information efficiently.
AI-powered personal assistants
These versatile tools allow users to input queries and receive AI-generated responses. Users should verify the accuracy of the information provided. Many of these assistants support follow-up questions for more refined responses.
- ChatGPT: OpenAI's large language model capable of engaging in human-like conversations and assisting with various tasks.
- Claude: Anthropic's AI assistant, known for its strong reasoning capabilities and ethical considerations.
- Bing Chat: Microsoft's AI-powered chat interface integrated with its search engine, offering up-to-date information and multi-modal interactions.
- Google Bard: Google's conversational AI model, designed to assist with a wide range of tasks and queries.
AI-powered image generators
These tools create images based on text descriptions, offering various options for customization and editing.
- Adobe Firefly: Adobe's AI image generation tool, integrated with its Creative Cloud suite.
- Stable Diffusion: An open-source AI model for generating high-quality images from text descriptions.
- Canva Generator: AI-powered design tool integrated into Canva's platform for easy creation of visual content.
- Dream Studio: A user-friendly interface for the Stable Diffusion model, allowing for fine-tuned image generation.
- Google Imagen: Google's text-to-image diffusion model (Note: Limited availability as of 2023).
AI for research assistance
These tools help researchers explore published data, summarize content, and answer questions based on uploaded documents.
- Consensus: An AI-powered search engine for academic research, providing summaries and key findings from scientific papers.
- Assistant by Scite: An AI tool that helps researchers find, understand, and evaluate scientific claims using a large database of scientific articles
- Perplexity: An AI research assistant that provides answers with citations to reliable sources
- Scispace: A platform offering AI-powered literature search, PDF reading, and writing assistance for researchers.
- Elicit: An AI research assistant that helps researchers find relevant papers, extract key information, and answer research questions.
For ChatGPT4 users with plugin access, the Scholar.AI plugin can be installed to enhance research capabilities.
AI-powered presentation creators
These tools generate presentations based on user inputs, allowing for customization of content, layout, and multimedia elements.
- Tome: An AI-powered storytelling and presentation tool that generates visually appealing slides with minimal input.
- Wepik: An AI-driven design platform for creating presentations, social media graphics, and other visual content.
- Beautiful.ai: An intelligent presentation software that uses AI to assist in creating professional-looking slides.
Productivity tools
These tools offer specific functionalities to enhance productivity in various tasks.
- Any Summary A tool that generates summaries from uploaded files of various formats, including documents, images, and videos.
- TutorAI An AI-powered platform that aggregates content on a given topic and presents it as an online course.
Translation AI
These tools provide AI-powered language translation services:
- Google Translate: Google's widely-used translation service supporting numerous languages.
- Bing Microsoft Translator: Microsoft's translation tool integrated with its Bing search engine.
- DeepL Translate: A neural machine translation service known for its high-quality translations, particularly for European languages.