Embracing the Future of Research: Explore Three AI-Powered Search Engines for Academics

1. Scispace

• Discovers papers through single plain-text questions.
• Generates multiple summaries for each paper and its sections.
• Utilizes AI for interactive conversations with any paper.

Scispace offers a CoPilot browser extension:

• Engage in ChatGPT conversations with a WEBSITE or PAPER.
• Receive suggestions for questions.
• Use any language of your preference.

2. Perplexity.ai

• Imagine if ChatGPT and Google had a child – that’s Perplexity.
• Pose plain-text questions for answers with real references (papers + websites).
• Continue follow-up conversations in the style of ChatGPT.

Perplexity also features a browser extension:

• Ask questions in the CONTEXT of the website/paper.
• Explore additional links related to the answer (e.g., Wikipedia articles).

[In this screenshot I ask a question on the paper directly.]

3. EvidenceHunt.com

• Addresses medical queries, aggregates evidence from clinical trials.
• Transforms plain-text questions into queries for research papers.
• Executes queries and presents the most IMPORTANT papers.
• Utilizes AI to provide concise summaries of results.