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24 25 DISPLAY - AI Uses at HIU

Summarize Academic Articles

Description

One strength of generative AIs is their ability to absorb information and summarize. Nuance may not be perfect, but the gist should be provided. Any of the models should be able to handle a simple, "summarize this" prompt. Even Adobe Reader now has an AI built-in for the sole purpose of summarizing articles.

Comment

There are "research" AIs (Perplexity, Consensus, Scite, Semantic Scholar, and others) whose purpose is to search for your topic and then summarize the literature, basically a literature review done for you. These can be good starting points for research if you are working in STEM fields. Those were mostly trained on Open Access material (PubMed, Arxiv, and government research). There aren't any (at the time of writing) that are great for the Humanities or Social Sciences.

** CAUTION **

Beware of relying on this method.

  1. Not a complete literature review.
  2. Some of the works will not be "peer reviewed" and that will not be acceptable to many faculty members.
  3. You didn't do the work, so you probably didn't learn nearly enough to write a paper.
  4. AI does not write factually, it writes fluently, so check your facts.
  5. Ais don't do citations nearly well enough NOR often enough.

** WARNING **
What is allowed in one class may not be in another. What is considered an approved USE of an AI may be considered MISUSE in another class. ALWAYS ASK YOUR INSTRUCTOR BEFORE YOU USE THE AI.

Research AIs