We tested the new OpenAI Agent to assess its usefulness in academic research tasks, comparing it directly with Manus.ai and Perplexity’s research mode. Our aim was to evaluate how effectively each tool finds relevant scholarly and policy sources, navigates restricted websites (including captchas and Cloudflare protections), and allows
Can large language models return accurate results when asked to find real academic texts written by specific philosophers on a specific topic? In this case, the topic was Marxist theory — and the instruction was to list peer-reviewed publications in which Gilles Deleuze or Michel Foucault offer a critique of it.
With generative AI tools becoming increasingly common in academic workflows, many researchers are tempted to use them for tasks like journal selection. But can these models really help you decide where to publish? Our quick test in the field of legislative studies suggests: not just yet. We wanted to see
Collecting and reviewing relevant literature is often one of the most time-consuming parts of academic research. We tested whether this process could be faster using a single prompt with different generative AI models. To explore this, we prompted each model to return accurate academic articles on ‘legislative backsliding’. The outcome
