AI Tools

U-M AI Tools

ITS is now offering a generative AI platform available to all active U-M faculty, staff, and students on the Ann Arbor, Flint, and Dearborn campuses and Michigan Medicine. These service offerings are private, secure, accessible, and equitable, and support everything from basic computer usage to advanced research and experimentation. Refer to the ITS AI Services page for more information on the ITS AI tools. 

AI Tools External to U-M

When using generative AI tools, it is important to avoid entering sensitive information to protect privacy and ensure data security. These tools may not guarantee the confidentiality of the information shared. Please refer to the University of Michigan Safe Computing guidelines for AI tool use.

This list is for purely informational purposes. The University of Michigan does not endorse or support any of these specific external AI tools.

Popular AI Tools

Content

• ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer)  
  ChatGPT is a chatbot developed by OpenAI. It uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to answer questions, write content, summarize information and more.
• GPT-4  
  GPT-4 is the latest version of OpenAI’s language model systems. It is a large multimodal model, accepting text and image inputs and emitting text outputs.
• Gemini  
  Gemini is Google’s AI chatbot that uses a combination of machine learning and NLP.
• ChatSonic  
  ChatSonic is an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT but with integrated google search, image generation, and text to speech.

Images & Art

• DALL-E 2  
  DALL-E 2 is an AI system that enables users to create images and art from a text description in natural language.
• DALL-E 3  
  DALL-E 3 is the latest version of OpenAI’s text-to-image system that more accurately adheres to the details of the prompt.
• Bing Image Creator  
  Image Creator uses OpenAI’s DALL·E 3 to generate AI images based on your text.
• Stable Diffusion  
  Stable Diffusion is an AI art generator that enables users to create unique imagery from short text descriptions, also known as prompts.

Video

• Synthesia  
  Synthesia is a tool that allows you to turn text into video with AI generated speakers and voices.
• Gen-1 Runway  
  Gen-1 Runway uses images and text prompts to generate videos.

Music

• AIVA  
  AIVA is AI composing software that empowers creators to make royalty free music.
• MusicGen  
  MusicGen is a text-to-music generation tool developed by Meta.

Programming

• GitHub Copilot  
  GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that translates natural human language into programming code.
• CodeWhisperer  
  CodeWhisperer is an AI coding companion from Amazon that can generate code suggestions based on your comments and existing code.

Personal Productivity

• Notion  
  Notion is the connected workspace where better, faster work happens.
• Futurepedia  
  Futurepedia is a comprehensive, searchable database of AI tools.
• SlidesAI  
  SlidesAI is a plugin for Google Slides that generates presentation slides from any text.
• Explainpaper  
  Explainpaper allows users to upload a paper, highlight confusing text, and get an explanation.
• Bing  
  Bing is Microsoft’s AI chatbot and runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 model.

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AI Detection Tools

Please be aware that these tools are imperfect, and currently, no software is able to detect AI-generated text with 100% certainty. AI detection tools can be used to identify situations where further inquiry into the use of AI-generated text may be needed. They should not be considered a definitive measure for cheating.

For Advanced Users

• Trending Models on Hugging Face
• Teaching with AI, OpenAI  
  A guide for teachers using ChatGPT in their classroom—including suggested prompts.
• Microsoft AutoGen  
  AutoGen is a framework that enables development of LLM applications using multiple AI agents.
• LangChain and LangFlow  
  LangChain is a framework for developing applications powered by language models. LangFlow is a UI for experimenting and prototyping with LangChain.
• List of Open Source Large Language Models (LLMs), DataDrivenInvestor
• [Syllabus] EECS 692: Advanced Artificial Intelligence, SLED Research Lab @ UMich  
  EECS 692 is an exploration of advanced topics in AI, focusing on the intersection of language, vision, machine learning, decision making, and cognitive modeling.

For Researchers

• Elicit.com  
  Analyze research papers using and automate time-consuming research tasks lit literature reviews, summarizing papers, and extracting data.
• Research Rabbit  
  Understands what you’re researching and gives you recommendations, personalized digests, and visualizations of networks of papers and co-authorships.
• Scholarcy  
  AI-powered article summarizer.
• Typset.io  
  AI-powered tool to help you understand research papers better.
• ScholarAI  
  ChatGPT plug-in that helps clinicians connect with peer-reviewed research articles