Link: Consensus
What type of AI: Research Assistant
User account: Start searching from their homepage but to fully access results, users should create a free account first.
What it does: Searches millions of academic papers for science-based answers to research questions or keywords.
Where it pulls data from: Current source material comes from the Semantic Scholar database.
How you can use it: Students can use it as a search engine and input keywords or questions to locate scholarly sources.
After you enter your question, the results page gives a summary of the papers it analyzed.
When you click on a source, it shows how the paper answered the question, the key takeaways and the abstract, as well as the quality of the citations.
If you ask a yes/no question, Consensus will analyze the results to give you a visual count of the "consensus." This is very useful for students who need to find research on both sides of a topic.