AI Literacy: A Practical Exploration Through the Uses of AI Tools
Prof.Dr. Ulaş Başar Gezgin, ulasbasar@gmail.com
Abstract
Majority of the people who have an idea about AI, especially generative AI has not mastered
what can be done with AI yet. For instance, young generations know how to use Canva, which
means in the future designers may face the threat of unemployment. They know how to chat with
ChatGPT. But many people are not knowledgeable about full capabilities of generative AI. Thus,
we need basic skills training to bring about literacy for how to use AI tools in less common ways.
In this paper, we provide a practical exploration of AI tools to be incorporated into an AI literacy
curriculum. The curriculum needs to rest on the following abilities: Ability to generate text with a
prompt; AI-based e-mail systems, utilization of AI for social media effects, use of AI to develop
one’s own website, information about paraphrasing tools, use of AI to detect as well as humanize
AI-produced text (i.e. making it as if it is produced by a human), making presentations from a
prompt or a text, generating and editing images by AI, QR code generation, video generation and
editing from a prompt or a text, audio and music generation and editing, voice cloning,
developing your own chatbots by feeding them with text, educational uses of AI, text-to-speech
and speech-to-text conversion, no-code mobile application development, Pdf tools, interior
design, story generation, translation, language learning, use of AI for health and fitness, legal uses
of AI, AI for research, use of AI for travel planning etc. This list can be longer, but the core would
not change much. For a person to be AI-literate, these skills need to be acquired. This is an
immense area exceeding the limits of a paper, but in this study at least some of these skills will be
presented by hands-on experiences through practically using AI tools available on the net, that
match each of these skills.
Keywords: AI tools, AI literacy, AI skills, AI skill gap, AI capabilities
Introduction
In this paper, we list a set of modules that would constitute AI literacy all together. It is not a full
list. Some others can be added based on user needs and AI capabilities.
1. Text Generators
The person should have the ability to use Generative AI for general purposes, including but not
limited to ChatGPT, Bing, Google Gemini, Twitter Grok, Opera Aria, Perplexity etc.
2. AI-Based Email Systems
ChatGPT writer – A Google Chrome extension.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/chatgpt-writer-write-mail/pdnenlnelpdomajfejgapbdp
mjkfpjkp
This program composes e-mails and messages with AI.
EmailWritr
https://emailwritr.com/
This program composes influential emails.
Scribbly – A Google Chrome extension.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/scribbly-ai-chatgpt-email/emmdlhdabimooaadedpcdllo
jcfggkhg
This serves the same functions.
3. AI for Social Media
Postus: https://postus.ai/
This allows social media post preparation by AI.
Tweetify: https://tweetify.it/
This turns long texts into tweets.
Beacons: https://account.beacons.ai/
This connects all social media accounts in one link for coordination.
4. Website Development
10Web: https://easywithai.com/ai-website-builders/10web/
It builds websites in a few minutes.
ZipWP: https://zipwp.com/
This is to produce WordPress websites and templates in a few minutes.
Quick Creator: https://quickcreator.io/
This is to develop blogs.
5. Paraphrasing Tools
QuillBot – https://quillbot.com/paraphrasing-tool
This serves multiple functions including paraphrasing. It is a handy tool.
Scribbr – https://www.scribbr.com/paraphrasing-tool/
This is less comprehensive than Quillbot, but still useful especially for citation generation.
GrammarlyGO - https://www.grammarly.com/
This is another multi-functional program. It has to be downloaded. It can’t be used online.
6. AI Detectors and Humanizers
Originality.AI - https://originality.ai/
This is used for AI detection and plagiarism check.
AI Text Converter
This serves as a humanizer, making AI-produced work humanlike.
https://aitextconverter.com/
Undetectable AI Humanizer
https://easywithai.com/ai-content-detectors/undetectable-ai-humanizer/
This claims to produce undetectable AI-produced texts. It needs testing.
7. Presentation Generators
Gamma - https://gamma.app/
It prepares fancy presentations based on a prompt or a text. Minor writing errors need correction.
Deep Brain - https://app.deepbrain.io/
This summarizes Youtube videos and makes 1 minute video-presentations with voiceover.
8. Image Generators and Editors
Gencraft - https://gencraft.com/
This generates images based on prompts. Style (e.g. realistic, cartoon etc.) and model need to be
chosen.
Deep Dream Generator - https://deepdreamgenerator.com/
This allows generation and editing of images.
Leonardo - https://app.leonardo.ai/
This is not only for image generation, but also textually improving and extending short prompts.
9. QR Code Generation
QR Code AI - https://qrcode-ai.com/
It is useful to produce artful QR codes with various images.
QRX - https://qrx.codes/
This is an excellent combination of image and QR generation simultaneously. Any image can be
generated with a prompt and a web link.
10. Video Generators and Editors
Lumen5 - https://lumen5.com/
This is a perfect tool to generate voiceover short videos based on short texts or a single
paragraph. It is very useful to promote articles through inputting the abstracts.
Fliki - https://app.fliki.ai/
This allows voiceover short video generation based on various inputs including ppts. Music is
added to the video.
Steve AI - https://app.steve.ai/
This is a great tool for video generation from blogs, but needs subscription for video download.
Also, it is not available in Turkish.
Hitpaw – https://www.hitpaw.net/
This is used for video editing. It needs to be downloaded to the computer.
11. Audio/Music Generators and Editors
Beatoven. https://sync.beatoven.ai/
It generates royalty-free music based on prompts.
Sounddraw. https://soundraw.io/
This allows instrument, tempo, mood etc. selection in royalty-free music generation.
Fadr - https://fadr.com/
It removes vocals or any elements from an uploaded song.
12. Voice Cloning
Play HT. https://play.ht/studio/voice-cloning
This is for voice cloning. Premium account is needed for longer versions.
Dupdub - https://app.dupdub.com/
This clones voice by input including Youtube videos. It requires paid account.
Vidnoz - https://aiapp.vidnoz.com/
This is also for voice cloning. Again, it needs paid account.
13. Chatbot Development
Chatlab - https://app.chatlab.com/
This makes a chatbot based on text input.
Dante AI - https://chat.dante-ai.com/
This makes a chatbot based on various kinds of input.
14. Educational Uses of AI
Before all, uses of generative AI for quiz creation, course material preparation etc. need to be
noted. E.g. ChatGPT can be used to generate quizzes about any topic, which fosters the learning
process.
Scribe - https://scribehow.com/
This follows your steps on the net one by one. It is useful for step-by-step instructions.
15. Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text Conversion
Text to Speech Online - https://www.text-to-speech.online/
This reads the texts in various languages.
Transkriptor - https://app.transkriptor.com/
This converts speech to text. It requires paid account.
Notta - https://app.notta.ai/
This has the same functionality with Transkriptor. It also requires paid account.
16. No-code Mobile Application Development
Jotform - https://www.jotform.com/
This allows development of your own mobile app without using any code.
17. Pdf Tools
Adobe Acrobat has an AI assistant, but limited to 120 pages, and English only.
Various Pdf Tools exist, but they have page and upload limits for free accounts.
18. Interior Design
AI Room Planning - https://airoomplanner.com/
Upload your room photo, and let the magic happen. It converts your room image through various
design options.
Room AI - https://roomai.com/
This has the same function, but offers various options.
Reimagine Home - https://app.reimaginehome.ai/
This adds color preferences to the options.
19. Story Generation
Story Pear - https://easywithai.com/fun-ai-tools/storypear-create/
This produces children stories by a limited set of templates. It includes visuals and audio.
Story Books - https://www.storybooks.app/
This generates a children’s story book with pictures, based on a prompt, character, age level,
theme, visual style selection and educational activity. Among various languages, 2 languages are
chosen. It has excellent performance.
Story - https://www.story.com/
This produces a narrative video by prompts, including voiceover and music.
20. Translation
Google Translate - https://translate.google.com/
Google Translate is now accepting not only text, but documents for translation.
Deep L - https://www.deepl.com/tr/translator
This is said to be better than Google Translate.
21. Language Learning
Duolingo - https://www.duolingo.com/
This is an excellent personalized language teacher based on adaptive testing. It is available for
various languages.
Univerbal - https://chat.univerbal.app/
This allows chat in different languages as practice.
Babbel - https://my.babbel.com/
This is for language learning, but languages available are limited.
22. Use of AI for Health and Fitness
Woebot - https://woebothealth.com/
This is used for mental health.
Fitness AI - https://www.fitnessai.com/
This is a fitness assistant powered by AI.
Docus - https://my.docus.ai/
This provides medical advice based on personal health information.
23. Legal Uses of AI
AI Lawyer - https://app.ailawyer.pro/
This provides detailed legal advice, and interprets official documents.
24. Use of AI for Travel Planning
AI Trip Generator - https://trips.takemeoutofoffice.com/
This plans your trip day by day.
25. Illustrating Books
You can upload your book as pdf or doc to AI. ChatGPT prepares an outline, writes prompts and
outputs pictures for each section. But it is far from being accurate and beautiful right now. We
expect developments in future versions.
Conclusion
As seen in this paper, there are various uses of AI, but the public and especially students are not
aware of them. We need large-scale AI literacy courses, maybe MOOCs for an era of AI
enlightenment.