There's an AI for That
There's An AI For That is a comprehensive database of thousands of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools available for hundreds of different tasks1. It is used by over 500,000 people and offers a smart AI search to help users find the best AI tools for any use case. You can search by application and it lists prices for each app.
Standard AI Tools For Free
- Gemini is Google's main AI tool and it is free to use.
How it can help: formulate basic surveys if the client is asking for survey of students you may know either from classes or being in RSOs. It is also helpful to find specific data from many places. Bear in mind, Gemini does collect data from you.
CoPilot is Microsoft's AI. The Office of the CIO lists features of the service offered via UIUC, which includes some data protection.
- ChatGPT 5 - Best known AI tool by Open AI.com. Version 5 is free, but you will need to sign up for an account; it is limited without a subscription version. ChatGPT 4 has capabilities similar to Chatgpt 5.
- Perplexity AI -This "chatbot" utilizes machine learning, AI, and natural language processing to answer you inquiries quickly and reliably. Of special interest to global and area studies scholars, it supports multiple languages, can build complex answers to research queries, can create outlines for articles and papers, and provides sources and citations for its research. It has a freely-available version and can be downloaded as an app. Here is a good webpage from Elegant Times about the advantages and disadvantages of Perplexity
Databases Containing AI
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Mintel Reports This link opens in a new window
Mintel Reports provides thousands of country and category specific market research reports with quantitative and qualitative market, brand and consumer insights. Reports include market size, growth, distribution, competitors and consumer usage.
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Statista This link opens in a new window
Provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.
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Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Provides bibliographic and full text content, including indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 and full text journal articles in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. The database full text content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
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