1. AI tools

AI technologies — including the tools, functionality and applications — are rapidly developing. Many applications and tools now have AI functionality directly embedded into them. Look out for “sparkle” icon variants ✨ as these have become widely recognised shorthand for AI in digital interfaces.

This page lists some useful standalone tools for text, code, image, and audio or video generation, but there are also specific tools you can use for research, literature searching, and writing.

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Conversational AI tools

Conversational AI tools are useful for generating human-like outputs from natural language inputs. Most of these tools are capable of image generation with some also capable of audio and visual outputs. Various file types can be uploaded and output by these tools such as pdfs, spreadsheets, programming scripts and more.

Tool	Useful features or limitations	In-person training	Online training	Cost
Copilot	Microsoft Copilot is an AI chatbot based on the GPT-4 series of large language models (LLM).	No	Get started with Microsoft 365 Copilot	Freely available for UQ staff and students
Claude	Clause is a family of LLMs developed by Anthropic. There are multiple models optimised for different areas such as speed, performance, and complex reasoning.	No	Anthropic Academy
ChatGPT	ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI. It uses generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) to generate outputs based on user prompts.	No	Prompt Engineering with ChatGPT (LinkedIn Learning, 54m)
Gemini	Gemini is an AI chatbot developed by Google based on the Gemini LLM.	No	Google Generative AI training & help
Perplexity	Perplexity AI is a web search engine that uses a LLM to generate responses based on web search results.	No	Getting Started with Perplexity

Image generation tools

These tools will generate image outputs based on text prompts. Most of the conversational AI tools above also have this functionality, however you might get better results from these tools with models built specifically for image generation.

Tool	Useful features or limitations	In-person training	Online training	Cost
Adobe Firefly	Adobe Firefly uses different AI models for creative production including text-to-image and text-to-video.	No	Learn Firefly	Freely available for UQ staff and students (only image and vector generation functionality)
Imagen	Imagen is an image generation model that is embedded into various AI tools by Google such as Whisk and ImageFX.	No	Whisk Help Center
GPT Image	GPT Image is a text-to-image model developed by OpenAI. It is accessible through ChatGPT.	No	Generate images with GPT Image
Leonardo.Ai	Leonardo.Ai is an AI platform that allows users to create images, video, and audio content from text prompts.	No	Leonardo.Ai Wiki
Ideogram	Ideogram is a text-to-image AI model and platform.	No	Ideogram documentation
Midjourney	Midjourney is an AI program that generates images from natural language prompts.	No	Midjourney Getting Started Guide

Audio and video generation tools

Tool	Useful features or limitations	In-person training	Online training	Cost
Elevenlabs	ElevenLabs is an AI text-to-speech platform that can produce lifelike speech by synthesising vocal emotion, intonation and conversational AI.	No	ElevenLabs Text to Speech
Suno	Suno is an AI music creation program where users can sue text prompts to generate songs with or without vocals.	No	Suno Making Music
Riffusion	Riffusion is a neural network platform that generates music by creating visualisations of sound.	No	Riffusion Docs
AIVA	AIVA is an AI music generation assistant that allows users to generate songs in a number of different styles.	No	Introduction to Composing with AIVA (YouTube, 2m50s)
Flow	Flow is an AI filmkaing tool developed by Google. It allows users to create video content such as short clips, scenes and longer video content.	No	Get started with Flow
Runway	Runway is a creative AI platform that offers a suite of tools and models for creating video, audio, and images.	No	Runway Academy
Sora	Sora is OpenAI's text to video model. It can take text, image and video inputs and generate new video outputs.	No	Getting started with Sora (YouTube, 2m17s)
Kling AI	Kling AI is an AI video generation tool developed by Kuaishou. Users can input text-prompts and images to generate video outputs.	No	How to Use Kling AI (Tutorial): Free High Quality AI Video Generator (YouTube, 8m16s)
NotebookLM	NotebookLM is an AI research and note-taking by Google. It allows users to input a number of different sources such as documents and videos and generate AI outputs such as summaries, quizzes and podcasts on topics.	No	8 expert tips for getting started with NotebookLM

Coding assistance tools

Tool	Useful features or limitations	In-person training	Online training	Cost
Github Copilot	GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant that can integrate into a number of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) such as Visual Studio Code. It can generate code through natural language description of the desired function	No	GitHub Copilot tutorials
Cursor	Cursor is a fork of Visual Studio Code with AI features added such as code generation, code rewriting and codebase queries. It also has agent functionality.	No	Cursor Documentation
Claude Code	Clauge Code is an AI agentic coding tool that integrates into your terminal. It can handle a range of coding tasks like development, bug fixing and testing.	No	Claude Code Quickstart
Zed	Zed is a code editor with AI features built in.	No	Zed Getting Started

Read about AI tools for literature searching. There are many new AI tools available to researchers and students that focus on academic sources (rather than general AI tools such as Copilot or ChatGPT).