Yes it is more like a research assistant. The "novel research and interpretation " part is your own synthesis, deserving to be published or awarded a degree and

Yes it is more like a research assistant. The "novel research and interpretation " part is your own synthesis, deserving to be published or awarded a degree and a research assistant can save you a lot of time. As AI companies throw more money into their training data or tools become available for researchers to easily enhance this, by uploading their own data the answers will become more "accurate" and more detailed.