Turn ChatGPT into a real research assistant! The Consensus plugin allows you to find answers, search for research papers, and draft pieces of content grounded in scientific research by accessing our database of 200M+ academic papers within ChatGPT
Hi Product Hunt 👋, I’m Eric, co-founder of Consensus.
We are thrilled to launch the Consensus Search ChatGPT plugin!
The Consensus plugin is the second product from Consensus, an AI-powered search engine for academic research.
💡 What is it?
The Consensus Search plugin is a ChatGPT plugin that can be accessed by ChatGPT+ users.
It allows users to find answers, search for research papers, and draft pieces of content grounded in scientific research by searching our database of 200M+ peer-reviewed research papers directly within the ChatGPT interface.
🤔 Why did we build it?
When ChatGPT launched last year the world immediately saw its potential as a research tool. Only one problem....when you ask ChatGPT to cite its sources, it confidently returns links to papers that do not exist.
Enter the Consensus Search plugin.
Now, you can turn ChatGPT into the research assistant that everyone envisioned by accessing our curated, cleaned and machine-readable database of over 200M peer-reviewed, scientific papers.
👩🔬 What are the use cases?
Ask a question, get answers grounded in scientific research.
Prompt example: “what are the benefits of mindfulness meditation?“
Draft pieces of content with proper citations from REAL studies.
Prompt example: “write me a paragraph about the impact of climate change on GDP with citations“
Find and extract concepts from research papers.
Prompt example: “I want a list of effective ways to prevent homelessness with citations“
Search for research papers without having to keyword search.
Prompt example: “Find me research papers on the relationship between social media and sleep“
👍 How do I access it?
Note: You need a Chat GPT Plus account to use Plugins
1. Sign into your ChatGPT account: chat.openai.com
2. Hover over the GPT-4 tab on the top of the screen and select “Plugins”
3. Click the “No plugins enabled” dropdown and scroll until you find “Plugin store”
4. Search “Consensus” in the search bar until you find the Consensus Search plugin
This works like a dream. I'll give you a concrete example...
As a parent of a child with multiple special needs, we are always looking for answers we can trust. But when you ask Google for answers, you get hit with a barrage of blog posts from whackadoos peddling conspiracy theories that they've invented, misheard, or misinterpreted from reading scientific studies without really knowing how.
So we've been increasingly asking ChatGPT, Claude et al instead, which is much more more efficient, but prone to hallucination, so you can't really trust that either.
But with Consensus plugged in, you can get a list of only valid answers, including clickable links to the actual studies.
Efficient and trustworthy.
Great job @eols76 and team!
Congratulations on the launch! It looks like a great tool - will definitely try it out.
Congratulations on the launch @eols76 ! This looks like a very handy tool for content creators like us too. Finding relevant statistics and data is one of the biggest time-sinks in content writing and this could be the way out. Will definitely try it!
Another great product! I was wondering what triggers the use of the consensus plugins? How does it work with languages other than English? If I've understood correctly, it summarises the publications found by consensus.
Congrats on the launch!
It's really helpful, I used to try via prompts in chat asking GPT to give answers based on research papers. But I would check the answers by asking for the title of the article and authors to then check that it actually exists via google scholar😅
It's great to be able to simplify this task
Congratulations on the launch, @eols76 ! It's wonderful to see makers taking a problem (ChatGPT returning source links that are dead-ends) and turning it into a useful solution for users. I'm sure many in the academic field would find Consensus very useful 👍
Congrats on the launch. I just presented basics of generative AI to a bunch of bioscience researchers and they all had tried it and they always got hallucinations. How are you solving for that??
@masabdi This could be a good use case for contentable.ai to compare hallucinations on a research based prompt
Kudos to the team for the launch!
Are the users able to fine-tune on specific papers?
This plugin will allows users to search through a database of over 200 million research papers directly within the ChatGPT interface. Congratulations team on the successful product launch
About Consensus ChatGPT Plugin on Product Hunt
“Get answers from REAL research papers within ChatGPT”
Consensus ChatGPT Plugin launched on Product Hunt on September 27th, 2023 and earned 139 upvotes and 18 comments, placing #16 on the daily leaderboard. Turn ChatGPT into a real research assistant! The Consensus plugin allows you to find answers, search for research papers, and draft pieces of content grounded in scientific research by accessing our database of 200M+ academic papers within ChatGPT
Consensus ChatGPT Plugin was featured in Artificial Intelligence (466.7k followers), Search (18k followers) and Science (1.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 91.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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