Question: I'm looking for an AI-powered research assistant that can help me form opinions and provide citations.

If you're looking for an AI research assistant to help you form opinions and cite sources, Elicit and Epsilon are good options.

Elicit is geared to help you quickly locate, summarize and extract information from more than 125 million research papers. That can be useful for speeding up literature reviews, automating systematic reviews and staying current with new research. You can ask questions of the content of papers, which is why it's useful for people in fields like biomedicine and machine learning.

Epsilon has tools like Investigate for summarized answers with inline citations, Search for organizing publications, Validate for evaluating claims and finding citations, and Synthesize for longer summaries. With a database of more than 200 million research papers and support for GPT-4, Epsilon is designed to produce authoritative, factual results and has been adopted by more than 30,000 researchers around the world.

Another tool worth mentioning is Semantic Scholar, which lets you search for and read relevant research papers from a large corpus. It also offers tools to cite papers in different citation styles, to organize papers into folders and to create research feeds. Semantic Scholar also offers AI-generated definitions, paper recommendations and automated email alerts, making it a useful research assistant with no subscription required.