Link: JSTOR
What type of AI: Generative
How does it generate responses: "the beta release of our generative AI-powered tool uses gpt-3.5-turbo from OpenAI and the open source all-MiniLM-L6-v2 sentence transformer model."
What it does: JSTOR AI will summarize the open document, suggest topics, show related content from within JSTOR, and answer a user's question about the open document. Their AI tool can only be used with journal articles, book chapters, and research reports, and does not include images or text-based primary sources.
Where it pulls data from: uses the open document to generate responses
How you can use it: Students can ask it to summarize a document or ask questions about the content of the document. or ask how the document is relevant to the search terms used.
Right now JSTOR AI is in beta and there is a limited release to those who 1) are logged in with a personal account and 2) are authenticated through an institution
The bot appears on the content page for journal articles, book chapters, and research reports, and as an alternative to JSTOR's standard keyword search. With this search it automatically answered the question of how the search term "trees" related to this article.
The bot can converse about the content of the document on the page, or suggest related documents within the JSTOR database.
It will also answer specific questions about the content and provide receipts.