Thread by @MushtaqBilalPhD

Finding relevant papers for literature review takes a lot of time.

So, MIT researchers built Undermind, an AI-powered search engine.

It can generate well-researched overviews on any topic and is 10-50 times better than Google Scholar.

Here's how to use it:

1. Go to undermind[.]ai and sign up for a free account.

2. Once you've logged in, this is how Undermind would look like.

Type in the topic of your research project. You can be as vague as possible.

Undermind will you a brief overview about your topic. Then it will ask you to narrow down your topic.

3. Once you've narrowed down your topic, type in your question, and press Enter. Undermind will reword your question.

Then scroll down a little and click on "Submit Deep Search."

Undermind will take 3-5 minutes to compile a comprehensive answer to your question.

4. Once it's done, Undermind will give you a detailed overview of the project with citations to published papers.

Hover your cursor over a citation and it will show you the relevent article.

5. Undermind will also show you different categories of papers relevant to your topic.

This can help you a lot in framing your project.

6. Undermind also has an option for timeline of published papers and the citation network.

I didn't find the user interface of the timeline very helpful. But I am sure this will improve in the future.

7. If you scroll all the way down, Undermind will give you a list of references.

You can enable abstracts and it will show you abstracts of all the papers in the list.

It will also give you a score of how relevant a given paper is to your topic.

8. You can also ask it to write brief review articles on a given topic.

After you have run a search, ask it to give you a review article.

These articles can be a great way to familiarize yourself with new topics.

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9. Undermind will save all your searches.

To look at your previous searches, simply click on "History."

10. And here's the paper on how Undermind works:

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