https://elicit.org
The AI Research Assistant
Elicit uses language models to help you automate research workflows, like parts of literature review.
Elicit can find relevant papers without perfect keyword match, summarize takeaways from the paper specific to your question, and extract key information from the papers.
While answering questions with research is the main focus of Elicit, there are also other research tasks that help with brainstorming, summarization, and text classification.
??? I heard itās really useful
FAQ:
What is Elicit?
Elicit is a research assistant using language models like GPT-3 to automate parts of researchersā workflows. Currently, the main workflow in Elicit is Literature Review. If you ask a question, Elicit will show relevant papers and summaries of key information about those papers in an easy-to-use table.
https://elicit.org/faq
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Very cool Alex - thanks for posting. I had not heard of thisā¦ Iāve joined it, and will start playing with it now. I encourage others who like to read research papers to do the same:
Here is the interface once you login, and complete their short questionnaire.
Elicit currently works best for answering questions with empirical research (e.g. randomized controlled trials). These tend to be questions in biomedicine, social science, and economics. Questions like āWhat are the effects of ____ on ____?ā tend to do well.
Some of our favorite queries are:
You can also watch an explainer video here.
Any update on this tool? Useful? Elicit.
Just tried to log into it and it wouldnāt let me. I have not gone back to it since that initial trial I did.
I started to join but stopped when it looked like I would have to pay. Oh well.
arugula
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My anti-virus software wouldnāt let me sign up. It gave me a phishing warning.
On a related note, Iāve tried using Chat GPT for work and play and it doesnāt impress me. Someone else described it as a glorified tape recorder.
shc
#7
I use it a lot. Mostly to complement my google scholar searches. And to find definitions of terms, etc. that may be lurking in the abstract of some paper.
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Iām really liking Dr. Oracle. Itās 10 bucks per month, is geared specifically towards medicine/biology/health searches and has two modes ā āGeneral Medicineā when you want the quick-and-dirty without references, and āResearch Modeā which lists papers and gives quick summary of each, general summary from synthesis of all papers, and full references with hyperlinks to Pubmed.
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Wowā¦ funnel plots for meta-analysis: How to visualise the power of each effect in a meta-analysis
Beware the Man of Many Studies - Cremieux Recueil
So many low-quality studies with high variance. Physionic hasnāt quite done funnel plots yet
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Theyāre giving free access to their deep research equiv for a limited time, pls post urls here
https://x.com/elicitorg/status/1894772293752266846?s=19
Lol they also obsess with microplastics now
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Screen top 100 papers Ā· Extract from up to 10 papers
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Screen top 500 papers Ā· Extract from up to 25 papers
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We are going to use up to 10 paper extractions from your remaining 20 in this billing cycle to generate this report.
https://elicit.com/review/648e681a-4715-423b-be06-bfef11664d1a (this is a sample report with 500 papers but this is one you have to pay for)
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I tried them and chat GPT on the question of whether there is a difference between melatonin levels in CSF in people with parkinsons. (particularly in the third ventricle) Chat GPT said there was and I found the original research that showed this. Elicit said there was no such research.
I thought the Elicit reviews were quite nicely written, but Elicit clearly cannot find more subtle information.
I probably will continue with asking questions of Elicit, but I think the best approach is not to rely on a single LLM.
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