Generative AI is very versatile and can create many types of content based on user prompts:
Text: GenAI can write different types of text, like essays, articles, summaries, emails, poetry, song lyrics, and stories.
Images: It can create a wide range of visuals, from realistic photos to artistic images in different styles (like abstract or surreal). It can also design logos and illustrations.
Audio and Music: GenAI can turn text into human-like speech, copy voices (with ethical considerations), and create original music in various styles.
Video: GenAI can make short videos, animations, and assist with tasks like creating storyboards or visual sequences from text.
Code: For tech tasks, GenAI can write code, fix bugs, explain complex code, and translate code between different languages.
Data Analysis: Some GenAI tools help organize, summarize, and create datasets for research or testing.
Presentations, Websites, and Apps: New tools can help design slides, build basic websites, and generate code for mobile or web apps, speeding up development.
Text generation tools, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), are some of the most popular AI applications. They can write emails, essays, summarize articles, answer questions, create creative texts, and even write code.
ChatGPT: Developed by OpenAI, is one of the most well-known tools that can understand and generate text. It can answer questions, write essays, help with brainstorming, and create other types of written content by using patterns learned from large amounts of text data.
Claude: A generative AI tool developed by Anthropic. It's designed to have natural, text-based conversations and can assist with various tasks like summarizing information, answering questions, writing different kinds of creative content, and some coding.
Google Gemini: Gemini is a multimodal AI from Google that can understand and generate text, code, images, audio, and video.
Microsoft Copilot: AI-powered assistant built into Microsoft 365 apps and services.
These tools turn written descriptions into images, from realistic pictures to different art styles.
DALL-E 3: AI tool from OpenAI that can create images from text descriptions or prompts. You simply describe what you want to see, and DALL-E 3 generates a unique image based on your description.
Midjourney: AI tool capable of generating images from text prompts.
Adobe Firefly: AI tool that helps you create images, text effects, and designs using simple text prompts.
Runway ML: AI-powered platform that enables users to generate and edit videos, images, and audio using simple text prompts or visual inputs.
Synthesia: AI video generation platform that allows you to create videos using AI avatars that rely on text prompts.
GenAI includes audio creation tools, from voice synthesis to composing original music.
Suno AI: Generates full songs with vocals and instruments based on user prompts.
ElevenLabs: Generates text to voice and vice versa, along with voice cloning capabilities.
There are a variety of generate AI tools that help consolidate the research process.
Perplexity: AI search engine that pulls real time information from the internet and includes linked sources.
Scite: Analyzes citation patterns in research papers, indicating whether a citation provides supporting, contrasting, or merely mentioning evidence for a claim.
Consensus: Focuses on extracting and synthesizing findings directly from scientific research papers to provide concise answers to research questions.
Research Rabbit: A literature mapping tool that uses a "seed" article to find related papers.
Scholarcy: Summarizes research articles into "summary cards," highlighting key points and claims.
GenAI tools use text and image generation to create presentations based largely on text prompts.
Gamma: Creates presentations based on a topic that include outlines and slide content.
Beautiful.ai: Uses AI-powered templates to build slides based on information added by the user. There is no free version of this tool.
Slidesgo: Input a topic, and the AI will generate a set of slides with relevant text and images.