Academic Search Engine + Agentic AI 📚 Consensus & Zotero Deep Research

How can we improve research using AI? Often, the AI makes things up (hallucinates), so what if we could ground its answers in verified research BEFORE it gave us any answers? In today's video, I explore this topic using the Scholar Agent & research management system of Consensus AI (1 week free of Consensus Pro: https://get.consensus.app/wanderloots26 ) Consensus focuses on finding quality information first before providing you with any answers, making it perfect for quality learning & academic research. I also show you how I integrate Consensus into my own academic workflow with my reference manager (Zotero), which works with my note-taking system (Obsidian). @ConsensusNLP significantly speeds up your research by searching literally thousands of papers at once before providing you with the top 50 papers that align with your question. Then, Consensus provides a series of snapshots that break down the information in those papers into easily digestible tables, meters, and summaries so that you can continue learning & researching without getting overwhelmed by information. The library update now brings a full research management system into Consensus, enabling you to chat with papers, collections, or your entire library. You can even import your existing Zotero library so you can chat with it, which is a hugely powerful feature, or map your research with the citation graph so you can see how papers connect across time. Consensus focuses on discovering quality information FIRST before using AI to provide answers, reducing hallucinations and boosting the quality of the information it provides you. It also analyzes yes & no questions to determine the community consensus so you get an instant idea on where concepts fit with the grand scheme of the academic community. You can then integrate your research with your reference manager, like Zotero, and your note-taking systems, like Obsidian, so your workflow is augmented, not disrupted. The syncing of Zotero collections really makes this workflow more efficient, while giving you powerful abilities to chat with your existing research. Consensus has just released MCP tools (model context protocol), which means you can use the Consensus scholar agent as an extension of your existing agentic AI tools like Codex, Claude Code, ChatGPT, and more! I hope you enjoy this new tool as much as I do! ✨ P.S. I greatly appreciate any feedback, please let me know what you think 😊 Join My Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFiU1vIpPD3lQltke_18m3A/join 💌 Sign up for my [free newsletter: Recalibrating](https://paragraph.xyz/@wanderloots.eth?referrer=wanderloots.eth) 🧠 Join my [Hypersub Exclusive Membership ] (coming soon) 🏡 Wander my Digital Garden https://wanderloots.xyz 📰 Try Ground News For Bias-Aware Research: 40% discount https://check.ground.news/wanderloots Timestamps: 00:00 How To Improve Research With AI? 01:02 Today's Outline & Goals 01:27 Consensus Deep Research Example 03:01 The Scholar Agent 04:12 Deep Research Report 07:35 Updated Library Part 1 (Consensus) 09:29 Updated Library Part 2 (Zotero) 11:40 Zotero To Consensus Workflow 13:10 Citation Graph "Seeding" Research 15:11 Citation Graph For Both Libraries (Consensus + Zotero) 16:54 Bonus Feature: MCP Tools For Agentic AI Use 17:36 Concluding Thoughts & Ideas WATCH NEXT 🌱 Obsidian & Digital Gardens https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWhMzDKA7vJ7p50vW-oeZgKR2aDReZFW6 🧭 Recalibrating (Main Storyline) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWhMzDKA7vJ4SLS2e6KiPmu9mku81B__Y LINKS (MY WORLD) 🧭 [Recalibrating Newsletter Home](https://paragraph.xyz/@wanderloots.eth?referrer=wanderloots.eth) 🏔️To start reading from the beginning: [Recalibrating Newsletter Entry 1: What Recalibrating Means To Me](https://wanderloots.substack.com/p/1-what-recalibrating-means-to-me) 🌍 My [Website](https://wanderloots.com/) 📸 My [Print Shop](https://wanderloots.darkroom.com/) ✨ SOCIALS 🟣 [Farcaster](https://warpcast.com/wanderloots.eth) 📸 [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/_wanderloots/) 📰 [Flipboard](https://flipboard.com/@_wanderloots) 📍 [Pinterest](https://www.pinterest.ca/wanderloots/) 🐦 [X (Twitter)](https://twitter.com/_wanderloots) 🧵 [Threads](https://www.threads.net/@_wanderloots) 🤖 [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/user/_wanderloots) MY FAVOURITE TOOLS 😴 🤯 The Waking Up App (https://dynamic.wakingup.com/guestpass/SC4914439) (use this link for a 30 day free trial) 📝 Obsidian https://obsidian.md/ (decentralized note-taking) 📹 Adobe Suite https://prf.hn/l/lQ9DwpA (general creativity) ❤️ Welltory https://app.welltory.com/payments/plans/main/?coupon=wanderloots (Health Tracker) EQUIPMENT USED 6. Camera [Sony A7iii](https://amzn.to/3seSHv6) 7. Lens [Sony F2 28 mm](https://amzn.to/3TiWCT2) 8. Tripod [K&F Concept](https://amzn.to/3soCKCP) 9. Main Lighting Neewer 660 PRO RGB: https://amzn.to/3CEcU2V