Perplexity.AI is Changing Academic Writing

1. One (1) AI tool to rule them all.

2. Academic writing like a superhuman.

This is not to copy-paste AI-generated work. Scroll for more.

If ChatGPT hasn’t thrilled you enough, hold on for her educated uncle, perplexity.ai. This tool alone will increase your research speed by about 10 times. If you want to transform your research and complete your academic writing assignments at warp speed, let me show you how.

What is it?

Perplexity AI is an answer engine that provides questions with accurate answers in an academic writing style.

Instead of providing simplified answers like ChatGPT, this AI tool will also add the sources and insert citations. In other words, it has similar capabilities to a search engine with the added ingenuity of AI.

How to use it?

While searching in Perplexity, you can either use “keywords” (like in Google), or you can search using “natural language” (like in ChatGPT).

The response to both questions will be fairly similar. However, given that you can get any result from a keyword search in Google, why use Perplexity?

What makes it 10X better?

You see, with Google, you get millions of results. But perplexity avoids all the broad and irrelevant results by helping you reduce the findings to a handful.

Secondly, the tool uses these results to write the answer to your questions while providing highly relevant sources.

Finally, Perplexity allows you to seek further clarification on terminologies or points you don’t understand. All you need to do is ask follow-up questions regarding whatever it has written. Perplexity will give answers and descriptions while suggesting new sources related to your question.

Where to access it?

The tool can be accessed at perplexity.ai or installed as a Chrome plugin. There is also an iPhone app that serves the same purpose as the plugin.

The plugin will read and summarize articles in seconds, thus saving you time.

I have opined that AI will not replace human labor entirely. Instead, it will increase our efficiency. Perplexity is every academic writer’s friend, helping you research broad topics within minutes.