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AI apps are constantly getting updated. It's hard to keep up.

Here are three updates you don't want to miss, especially if you want to avoid fake citations to non-existent articles. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
1. Scilynk(dot)com, an AI-powered free search engine, has introduced Lynx.

It's your research assistant that will give you summaries of journal articles.

Lynx was available earlier too, but it's performance was a bit patchy. It's fixed now and should work reliably.
To use Lynx, type in your question in the search bar in the top-right corner.

Scilynk will give you a list of relevant articles. Click on "Ask Lynx" and it will generate a summary for you.
Tip: if you want to refine your search results, include the name of relevant journals as keywords when you create a feed.

Scilynk will give you articles from those journals.

And please feel free to share your feedback with folks at Scilynk.
If you are new to Scilynk, here's a step-by-step tutorial to get you started:

Want to learn more about how you can supercharge your academic writing with AI-powered apps?

I have a complete tutorial for you.

It's being used by 2,000+ academics including those at Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford.

You can get it here:
efficientacademicwriter.carrd.co
2. System Pro, a really powerful search engine for biomedical reseach, is offering discounted rates for students ($49/year).

The amazing thing about System Pro is that its information is refreshed daily.
To use System Pro, simply type in your question and you will get a detailed answer with references to published papers.

System Pro also gives you an interactive graph of how articles in your searhc are related.
If you have not used System Pro before, here's a step-by-step tutorial for you:

3. Last week Perplexity launched its Pro version ($20/month).

In the free version, you get to ask only five questions to the Copilot.

The Pro version gives you 300+ uses of the Copilot and you can choose GPT-4 for all your questions.
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Jun 21
Adding graphics makes presentations engaging.

But designing them takes a lot of time and effort.

Now you can use AI to create graphics and make your presentations stand out.

Here's how to do it (for free):
Open Bing Chat: bing.com/chat. Select the "More Creative" mode.

Give Bing a brief introduction of your project to prime it.

You can use the following template:

"I am working on a presentation on [your project]. Can you create graphics for my presentation?"
Simply choose a topic and ask Bing to create a graphic about it.

My PhD dissertation was about the relationship between the novel and the nation. So, I asked Bing to create an image of a book and national flags.

The top-right image is really great.
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Jun 20
The new Elicit Beta is out and it will revolutionize academic research.

It will help you:

• Extract information from your PDFs.
• Discover concepts across hundreds of papers.
• Get summaries of papers relevant to your questions.

In seconds and for FREE! The homepage of Elicit Beta.
Click on "Find scientific research papers" and type in your question.

Elicit will give you a list of relevant papers along with one-line abstract summaries.

Great way to get started on your literature review.
But that's not it.

You can also ask it to give you the papers' intervention, region, participant age, study count, etc.

Simply click on "Add columns" and select the column you want to add.
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Jun 19
A list of universities and institutions where I have been invited for workshops and seminars:
1. University of the District of Columbia, USA

28 Oct 2022

Title: How to Use Zotero
2. Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India

12 Nov 2022

Title: Introduction to Zotero
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Jun 18
A recent working paper by MIT researchers claimed that ChatGPT-4 passed the MIT Mathematics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) undergrad courses with a 100% perfect score.

It went viral.

Others tried to replicate the results.

Here's what they found:
Earlier this week, a 15-member team lead by two MIT undergrads published a working paper, "Exploring the MIT Mathematics and EECS Curriculum Using Large Language Models."

They used "a comprehensive dataset of 4,550 questions and solutions" to test GPT-4. The title of a paper titled...
They argued that "GPT-4, combined with a system expert, few-shot learning, chain-of-thought, selfcritique, and collaborative decision-making techniques, achieves a perfect solve rate."

So, how did GPT-4 get a perfect score?

It didn't.
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Jun 17
Academic writing can seem daunting.

Here's a breakdown of the writing process into smaller, manageable steps (and free apps to help you with every step):
1. Brainstorm Research Questions

Use ChatGPT to brainstorm research questions.

Prompt: I am writing a paper on [your topic]. Could you help me brainstorm research questions?

The suggestions ChatGPT will give you will be broad. Ask follow up questions to narrow down.
You can also use Bing (in Creative Mode) to brainstorm research questions.

In my current project, I am exploring two of the research questions Bing has suggested here.
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Jun 16
ChatGPT gives you fake citations to non-existent paper. But Scite, as you know, gives you real citations to published papers.

And folks at Scite just added a bunch of new features that will supercharge your research, especially literature review.

Check it out below:
Go to scite(dot)ai.

Sign up for an account if you don't have one already. Then click on "Assistant." A yellow arrow points to th...
This is how your Scite Assistant will look like.

Click on the Settings button in bottom-left corner to open Assistant Settings.
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