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CHEM 401/501: Advanced Physical Chemistry

Interested in Using ChatGPT for Your Research and Creation?

There's been a lot of hype and fear about generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot (which works just like ChatGPT and W&M has an enterprise license to and thus has more access and better privacy protections), and Perplexity (to which W&M students can get a 1 year Perplexity Pro license if they sign up with their W&M email before the end of 2024). If you're interested in using these tools for research and creating your projects, check out the following guides!

Useful Advanced Search and Visualization Tools

Generative AI Research Tools

In addition to general generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google's Gemini, Claude, and others mentioned on the Generative AI guide, there are tools specifically for research, often based on the research literature, that incorporate generative AI. Here are just a few below. This space for higher education is changing rapidly so keep an eye on Ithaka S&R's Generative AI Product Tracker. Note: Many of these tools are experimental and are in beta (or alpha) so consider them pilots, not the last word for comprehensive searching. All of these are freely available or have a free tier. For more information on some of these see this presentation.

Apps

GPTs (apps built on top of ChatGPT) for research includes ones such as Scholar AI, Scholar GPT, Research Papers, and more

Other AI Discovery Tools

Not all AI research tools are generative AI tools like ChatGPT. Many of the tools below may be using some combination of machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing and more to find and visualize the research literature. Some, but not all, of these also incorporate generative AI.

Visual Search and Visualization Tools