The Primo AI Research Assistant is a great resource with which to begin your research. You should never claim AI-generated content as your own work. (What is the Primo AI Research Assistant?)
First, log in to the Primo AI Research Assistant.
Once logged in, ask the Primo AI Research Assistant a natural language question. The Primo AI Research Assistant will provide a summary overview for the 5 most relevant sources. If the summary provided is relevant to your research, continue your research by clicking "View more results from your library search." The Primo AI Research Assistant will have formulated a search query and Primo will show results for the query. If desired, you can now apply facets to the search query to narrow your search further.
Some instructions are not currently supported by the Primo AI Research Assistant, like requests for materials of a particular type (e.g. “give me peer reviewed articles about bird migration”) or from a certain time period (e.g. “give me the newest research on climate change”). You will still receive an answer when including these instructions and the ranking algorithm will take keywords like “peer-reviewed” into account, but the tool will not filter content by type or date.
The Primo AI Research Assistant does not yet support follow-up questions. Each question stands by itself. For example, if you ask “what topics did Simone de Beauvoir write about”, you cannot follow up by asking “and what is the content of that work” and expect the system to understand what you mean. At this time, you will have to include all relevant information in each question, e.g. “what is the content of Beauvoir’s The Second Sex"?
Example usage:
I asked Primo AI Research Assistant the question "What is the difference between machine learning and artificial intelligence?"
Primo AI Research Assistant responded with an overview from 5 most relevant sources, in this case two eBooks and three articles from journals.
I can click on each of the five relevant sources to read the content.
I can also click on Related research questions at the bottom of the page to have the Primo AI Research Assistant generate new answers for questions related to my question.
I clicked on "View more results from your library search" to have the Primo AI Research Assistant generate a new search query and show the results in Primo.
In this case, the search query looks like this:
(machine learning vs artificial intelligence) OR
(differences between AI and machine learning) OR
(artificial intelligence definitions and machine learning) OR
(machine learning applications in AI) OR
(understanding AI and machine learning concepts) OR
(What distinguishes machine learning from artificial intelligence?) OR
(How do machine learning and AI differ in their applications?) OR
(What are the key differences between AI and machine learning technologies?) OR
(In what ways are artificial intelligence and machine learning not the same?) OR
(Can you explain the relationship between machine learning and artificial intelligence?) OR
(What is the difference between machine learning and artificial intelligence?)
Now I can click on "Peer-reviewed Journals" or change the "Publication Date" to apply facets that filter my results.
