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The Grasselli Search webpage includes the AI Research Assistant tool, built on OpenAI’s GPT--4o mini platform. What does it do?
- Allows searching with "natural language" questions. Just ask your research questions using full sentences.
- The "top" five relevant research sources are presented with abstracts.
- An overview paragraph summarizing those five articles is created, showing the cited references inline.
- Additional possible research questions are suggested.
Here's an example:
Pros and Cons of using AI Assistant
Pros
- You can quickly focus in on main ideas for your topic.
- The overview can clarify some ways ideas are connected.
- This tool pulls directly from materials you can access or request from us. No hallucination citations.
- You can become more comfortable with concepts that are new to you.
- It will give you some academic language with which to frame your thinking
- Suggested research prompts may lead you to consider additional directions to investigate
Cons
- Results can be biased, as with any large language model AI system.
- Results may not be specific enough, but you can always reword your questions to be more precise.
- For some topics, an overview may not be generated (developers are working on this issue).
- What the system considers as "relevant" may not be what you need.
Always evaluate AI results thoughtfully!
