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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

Mar 2, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X

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If ChatGPT and Google Scholar got married, their child would be Consensus — an AI-powered search engine.

Here's how to use it:

Go to consensus(dot)app and sign up for a free account.

You can ask Consensus:

1. Questions about the relationship between concepts
2. Questions about the effects of something
3. Yes/No questions

You can ask Consensus questions about 6 topics:

1. Social policy
2. Medicine
3. Mental health
4. Health supplements
5. Economics
6. Sleep

If you search about the effects of X on Y or the relationship between X and Y, Consensus gives you a list of relevant papers.

This doesn't seem very different from Google Scholar.

But...

If you ask a Yes/No question, it will tell you what the consensus of the scientific community is regarding the question.

This is an extraordinary feature that will save scholars and researchers a lot of time.

If you want to become an efficient academic writer with the help of AI-powered apps, I have an ebook for you.

For details, please see my pinned tweet.

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