Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson｜845. Using ChatGPT as a Language Teaching Tool 🤖 with JOE DALE, EdTech Guru, ChatGPT Enthusiast

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You're listening to Luke's English Podcast.

Hello, welcome back to Luke's English Podcast.

Let me tell you what you're going to get in this episode.

So this is a conversation with Joe Dale, who is an MFL consultant, an ed tech guru and a chat GPT enthusiast.

Let me just explain what that actually means.

Joe Dale.

He's an MFL consultant, MFL Modern Foreign Languages and modern foreign language teaching.

And Joe has worked in this field for many years, first as a French teacher in the UK school system and then in other roles, including as a consultant, giving advice and tips and knowledge, sharing his knowledge and services with other organisations, schools and so on.

He'll tell you more about it when I ask him to introduce himself.

Maybe even this isn't necessary, what I'm saying now, but I'm doing it anyway.

So, as well as being a modern foreign languages consultant, Joe is known as an edtech guru.

Okay, that's someone who consults and gives advice on the use of technology in education, edtech.

Okay, and in fact edtech, especially the tech part, is Joe's special area of interest in the field of education right.

So he's really interested in all the ways that technology can be used in education, in language teaching.

And, of course, the most exciting new technology at the moment is AI, and probably the most prominent example of AI artificial intelligence in language learning and teaching at the moment is ChatGPT.

This is the thing that people have been talking about for the last year or so.

It's not just ChatGPT.

Other forms of AI language model are available, but ChatGPT is probably the most prominent one, the language-based artificial intelligence which everyone has been talking about and using for the last year or more.

We're still assessing to what extent it can be useful, whether it's going to take over the world and put us all out of a job, or whether it's actually just going to be a sort of an assistant to us, and to what extent it's going to shake up.

Well, everything but focusing on teaching and learning English here.

Basically, this is a conversation with Joe about ChatGPT and especially ChatGPT in helping people to learn English.

And this follows on from the three episodes I did about ChatGPT earlier this year.

That was episodes 821, 822 and 823, in which I demonstrated some of the things that ChatGPT can do in order to help you learn English.

Basically, can it be your English teacher?

Now we saw in those episodes that ChatGPT can do absolutely loads of stuff, of course, and it does some things better than others.

But on the whole it is a very impressive bit of software which can be very useful for language learners and teachers.

So here's another episode about ChatGPT, this time in the form of a conversation.

And Joe is going to take us further into the ways ChatGPT can be used, including the various ways it can be combined with other bits of software, which is something I didn't really cover in my previous three episodes.

How ChatGPT can be combined with other things, such as Google Chrome extensions, which allow you to do things like convert ChatGPT's input and output from written English into spoken English and more.

And as Joe is a teaching consultant, there is a focus here on the teaching side of things, on how teachers can use this technology.

And I know that most of you listening to this podcast are English learners rather than teachers, but I think that this is still relevant to you because it can show the many ways in which ChatGPT can be used, and also other software, in order to get more independence in your language learning.

So a lot of the applications that the teachers are using could also be used by learners as well, if you know, if you are independently minded.

So things do get quite technical in this conversation, as you might expect, as we talk about the very specific ways that all of this software can be used.

I hope you can keep up with all of that.

Hopefully my little summaries now and then during the conversation will help you to understand and keep up with us.

Later in the conversation we do branch out into some wider discussions about ChatGPT in education, including some of the more sceptical or perhaps questioning opinions that people have about this new technology.

For example, whether it's ethically okay and some of the more negative aspects and things like that.

So we do discuss that stuff a bit later as well.

I hope you enjoy the conversation, that you like meeting Joe Dale in podcast form and that you find all the comments and tips that he gives to be useful, whether you are a language learner or language teacher.

As I said, we mentioned quite a lot of Google Chrome extensions and other things, and I've listed their names on the page for this episode on my website.

So if you hear us mention those things quickly, all those Google Chrome extensions and other things, if you hear us name them quickly but you don't quite manage to catch their names, don't worry.

Just follow the link in the description to the episode page on my website and you'll find all those things listed there, so you can check them out in your own time.

Also.

I will mention those things again at the very end of the episode, just to make sure that you've got it all.

OK, right.

So that's it.

And now then, let's meet Joe Dale, edtech guru, chat GPT enthusiast.

And here we are.

Hi, Joe.

How are you?

I'm good, thanks.

It's really lovely to connect with you.

I watched your three amazing YouTube clips on ChatGPT a few months ago and they were quite long, about an hour and a half or so each.

But I absolutely love the way in which you drill down into using ChatGPT, particularly in language teaching, which is my background.

I was a modern foreign language teacher, so I taught French for for 13 years, et cetera.

But recently well, the last 13 years, I've been sort of focusing on how technology can enhance language learning.

And very, very recently, everything is about AI and chat GPT.

So that's why I loved what you did because it was very different from the sorts of videos.

I've watched a lot of videos on YouTube about ChatGPT and even how it can be used in languages.

But what I really liked about what you did was it was a lot of information that you were, a lot of information you were putting into ChatGPT and I loved the way you were sort of having this conversation with it or, I suppose, with the viewers watching the podcast.

The way in which you were saying well, it's done that really well, but it hasn't done this very well.

And that's exactly the sort of experience that I had as well, which I would love to sort of go into the weeds about, as it were, and and drill down into exactly what you found works well and what you found uh, does not do as well.

And that's why I got in contact.

So I was really thrilled when you said, yes, you know, come onto the podcast, let's have a chat.

And, uh, that's why I'm here.

So it's really cool.

Genuinely really cool to be here.

Oh, great.

Great.

Yeah, it's really cool to have you here and thanks for saying nice words about the videos and for watching all of them you know all the way through, because they were pretty long.

Yeah, ChatGPT is fascinating stuff.

Before we get into all the ChatGPT things, as you just said, let's just let my audience know a little bit more about you.

You've got an extremely long CV with all sorts of things in it.

Can you try and give us a sort of pithy summary of what you do.

Yeah, no problem at all.

So as I said, I was a languages teacher.

I taught French for 13 years three years at secondary school level and then ten years at middle school level.

The first two schools I worked in for the three years at secondary level.

One was in North Wales.

I was there for two years.

I also did my PGC in Bangor in North Wales as well.

And I taught in Conway, which is just along the road there, not far at all.

And then I went to Somerset for a year And then from there I then went to the Isle of Wight, which is where I still live, which is where I am right now.

And I've lived here for well over 20 years.

And I was working in a middle school there, nine to 13-year-olds.

So I've got upper primary and secondary school experience.

And I got an interest in technology and how it could enhance language learning around 2002.

My first conference was 2005, and then I started speaking at national conferences like the Language Show, Language World and other such places.

I was a lead practitioner for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust for three years, between 2006 and 2008.

I then decided to lead the classroom in 2009 and become a full-time language consultant.

Independent languages consultant.

So I actually work independently, but I do occasionally work with lots and lots of organizations all over the world.

I've done work with the PBC, with the Guardian, with Microsoft.

More recently, I've done a lot of work.

Well, not recently, but in general, I've done a lot of work with the British Council.

But recently I've been doing a lot of webinars in places like Indonesia, in Latin America, through the use of AI and ChatGPT.

I've done face to face training all over the world.

I've spoken at conferences all over the world.

I've been to places like Australia, New Zealand, North America, South America, all over Europe, the Middle East.

So everywhere, really.

And it's something that I'm really genuinely passionate about.

And I've also been podcasting since 2006.

And more recently, I've been producing podcasts for people.

And that's what I've been really enjoying.

For example, one which is active at the moment is the Post Primary Languages Ireland podcast, which we've done six episodes for at the moment.

All a great fun Irish language teachers talking about their use of uh, different ideas in the classroom about promoting languages.

I really would encourage everyone to have a listen to that.

So i don't appear on that, but i just produce it um, and it's something i really enjoy.

So that's, that's a little bit about me, but if you want to um, check me out on on youtube.

I've got my own youtube channel, which is just uh wwwyoutubecom.

Forward slash at as in the at sign at joe dale, because a while ago you were able to sort of claim your username, which is really cool because there are other obviously other joe dale's out there.

But I was delighted that I was able to get the just the at Joe Dale one without having to add any numbers to it or anything like that.

So that was really cool.

And that's got over 3000 subscribers to it.

During the pandemic as well, I helped to organize over 150 or so TILT webinars.

We both sort of came together at the same time at the beginning of the pandemic, saying we would put together a series of webinars particularly aimed at supporting not only ALL members but anyone around the world that wanted to come along.

And those have all been recorded and are available on my YouTube channel, along with many, many other hours of recordings as well of different presentations i've given or ones i've hosted, etc.

And on twitter, which again i've been on since um may 2007, i've now got 34 700 followers as well, or x, should i say.

We should call it now, i suppose, But yeah, so I'm really sort of out there.

I'm on LinkedIn.

I'm in various Facebook groups.

In fact, if I can give a plug to my new Facebook group, which is Language Teaching with AI, that is something which I'm sure people would find interesting, yourself included.

And it's already got 1700 members of that.

I have put together some rules simply because I want to see that people have given some commitment in, rather than just saying oh yeah, I'd like to join, type of thing.

So it is a private group.

I also set up some group rules as well, which I ask people to agree to as a way of avoiding spam or reducing spam.

I haven't had any issues with spam at the moment.

But you know, in some Facebook groups you get a lot of spam.

So if people have not written answers to the questions or agreed to the group's rules, I give them a very polite response, uh feedback, and then, if they want to, if they're serious about coming back, they then come back.

And then they they do it again, and i'm using a chrome extension called magical, which is really cool, which allows you to put in like a little um set of um letters, for example, like a shortcut, and it will then replace that with uh text.

So i literally put forward slash um QR, which is questions and rules.

And then it then populates it with the text I've actually written.

So I'm not having to write out each time.

And then if they haven't agreed to the rules, it's forward slash R. And if they haven't done the questions, it's forward slash Q. So with just those three shortcuts, it saves me a lot of time to then manage the people that request to join.

And it's normally about five or 10 a day.

So it saves a lot of time for me to do that.

So that's the new thing.

I've never run a Facebook group before.

And it's cool.

There's lots of cool people who are posting some different ideas around AI and chat GPT.

And there's lots of people who just want to learn as I'm as well.

Of course, I'm still learning as well all the time.

Absolutely, me too.

Just before we get into what's happening now with AI and chat GPT, let's just kind of turn back the clock, as it were, and go back to the early days when you were teaching.

Maybe you know the very beginning of your career.

To what extent was technology involved then?

And what kind of technology was it?

That's a great question.

That's a really great question.

So I first started teaching in the late 90s.

And so at that time, technology I mean it was, it was universal in the sense that you would have, you know, computers in lots of schools, but it wouldn't be certainly that.

The expectation was was that every teacher would have their own device.

Uh, the internet, as you, you know, i'm sure you remember, was something like you know, locked in a special cupboard and you'd only have access to it if you spoke to the deputy head type thing.

Yeah uh, that was that's very you know.

That's changed massively, of course.

Um, also in relation to, you know, internet connection speeds, i mean, it was all dial up and this sort of thing.

So at the time, um Around 2002, the UK government had this idea of computers for teachers scheme.

So it meant that they would give you 500 pounds off a computer, as long as it was on one of the items on this particular list of suppliers.

So that's when I invested in my own computer, because prior to that I could basically just about word process and that was it really.

And you could do that as a teacher.

There was no expectation that you had to use technology.

It's all changed completely.

Like I can remember doing the reports, for example, like end of year reports, and doing them all handwritten.

There was no expectation that you would write them out on the computer or anything like that.

So things have changed massively.

So I bought my own computer and as a result of that, that's when I got the bug really.

And I because I can be very sort of dogmatic and and um independent about you know, for once i, once i'm interested in something, i can just, you know, nothing can hold me back really, and i can just really learn huge amounts in in quite a short period of time.

And that's what i did.

And then i just sort of started exploring different ways in which, for example, at the time, things like powerpoint could be used.

I joined various uh online fora and, for example, uh the linguanet forum um, which was uh, quite sort of, i suppose, formal in style, and then the mfo resources, which was a yahoo group um, which was more about sharing resources, as the name would imply.

And that's when i sort of started um downloading lots of different PowerPoints that people were enjoying and creating and then sort of taking the ideas and then putting them into my own presentations, rather than just you know stealing or, as it were, or just you know using other people's sources.

I would just which is something i've always done i would just sort of take the idea and then add it or change it in order to fit my style.

And that's very similar actually to chachi bt as well, because i've watched lots of videos, i've listened to lots of podcasts, i've read lots and lots of tweets about chachi bt, and that's how you sort of get a good idea of what capabilities, of what you can do with it.

And that's when i then wanted to uh um yeah, as i said, get in contact, because i was so genuinely thrilled by the use cases that you were talking about in your in your video tutorial.

So hopefully that's giving people a little bit of a snapshot of what life was like at the start of my teaching career.

Tape machines as well.

Just from my experience as a pupil at school.

I was in the classroom in the early 90s in French lessons and the teacher would have a tape machine that had wood panels on it.

So it was made of wood, right?

And it was like this large black tape machines.

I only ever saw those tape machines in schools, never saw them in the rest of the world.

They're special school tape machines.

I don't know if they're better or what, but...

Anyway, they'd bring out these tape players and they'd play the cassette of Tricolore.

You know, the French coursebook that we used to use.

And it would be a grainy recording of, you know, supposed to be a girl in the street asking a man for directions to the office to Tourisme.

It was always a young girl asking an old, grumpy man for directions to the office de tourisme or the swimming pool.

La piscine, which used to make the entire class laugh because it sounds a bit like pissing, doesn't it?

And then bonk as well used to make us all laugh because it sounded like pissing.

Well, it sounds like bonk, which is a euphemism for having sex.

So we never really learned that much French.

Instead it was a lot of wrestling with a tape machine and then the kids laughing at the words pissine and bonk.

And then every now and then, maybe once every two weeks, this big trolley would be wheeled into the classroom very dramatically.

We'd all watch it, wondering if it was going to crash onto the floor.

The trolley would be wheeled in. with a huge, extremely heavy television set and a VHS recorder.

And a tape would be put into the recorder and clang, it would be closed.

And then some dodgy old VHS would be shown where we'd see French kids meeting each other on a Saturday afternoon and kissing each other as well.

The boys were there dressed in their nice shirts and they'd go and kiss each other and give each other gifts.

And we're thinking, what is...

What is this strange world in which the people speak French and they kiss each other on Saturday afternoons?

So anyway, it's tape players and video machines.

And now the contrast between that and what we've got now is mind blowing.

So chat GPT then.

Yes.

So. what are some of the things?

Great, great days.

I just before we go into Chachuti.

Those are great days that the Kumba I think you're talking about the Kumba um cassette player was was wonderful.

And you could do all the fast uh cool things like you know fast forward and pause and all that sort of stuff.

And then of course, um, overhead projectors as well.

I was a big fan of projectors and um, I sort of worked out back in the day that you could.

You know those like pound shops and you get like magnifying glasses and I would break the plastic off.

So I just had the plastic lens and then I would then use that.

I had a couple of them.

I would use that to make the image on the overhead projector blurred.

And then I could then sort of change it around a bit and sort of move the two lens together.

And you could create all these different cool effects.

So the kids couldn't see exactly what the image was on the acetate.

Right right um, things like getting um a pack of, let's say, 10 colored pens, including yellow and purple, that would only come with the bumper pack that you could then use to then create your acetates and this sort of stuff.

It was great, it was great fun, it was great for promoting your, your creativity.

But yeah, as you say, things have changed hugely now.

Um teachers, now probably, i would say in most certainly uk schools would have their own device.

Um, there were lots of Students using either a class set of devices, if they're lucky enough to have that or, even luckier, they've got their own device.

And yeah, and the internet and everything and all these different sites.

And I think as a result of the pandemic as well, that sort of divide between those teachers who have always been into ed, tech etc.

Compared to those teachers, for whatever reason, have not had that same interest.

As a result of the pandemic, that sort of divide has closed, I think, certainly in the UK context.

And people are now much, much more aware of the sorts of tools that are out there that can be used to promote teaching and learning.

And then the whole chat, GBT, AI phenomenon has now taken everything to a new level.

And I think there are still lots of teachers out there that have no idea on this sort of seismic revolution that is playing out at the moment, which is why having conversations about it and how we can push it and get the most out of it are so important.

So what are some of the things that have struck you about ChatGPT and learning English or teaching English, then?

Okay, so I think what ChatGPT is brilliant at is creating different types of text.

So in an English language context, it's very, very good at creating, for example, postcards or narrow reading exercises or gap fill exercises, those sorts of things.

Narrow reading, just some people won't know what that is.

OK.

So when I mean narrow reading, what I mean is you could ask it to, for example, create four different texts which have essentially the same structures in them but slight differences.

So the idea of narrow reading is that you're reading the four texts but you're noticing slight differences.

And then you can then ask ChatGPT to generate questions based on the four different texts and then ask it to create an answer key as well.

So, in other words, what the learner is doing is they're seeing the same structures, but they're seeing differences.

For example, when I'm sort of presenting about this in webinars et cetera, I've got this prompt which I put in.

I use a Chrome extension called canned replies, which is really, really useful.

How do you spell that, sorry?

So that's C-A-N-N-E-D, canned, and then the word replies.

So two words, canned replies, a little bit like canned laughter, I suppose, the same sort of idea.

So the idea of a canned reply is that you can add – that you get regularly, from whoever it might be parents or what have you, about a particular topic and you write out the same answer each time.

What you can do is you can create what's called a canned reply, which is essentially a bit like a template, I suppose, and then you just change the name or site details.

So the Chrome extension canned reply is what it allows you to do.

Is it allows you to make a list up to about 12 different items with a title and the body text?

And so with a prompt for ChatGPT you can just put the title of the prompt in, for example narrow reading, and then put the actual prompt itself in the body text.

And then, as long as you enable permissions on the Chrome extension, what you can then do is in ChatGPT.

You can then right-click in Chrome and one of the options will be canned.

Replies that comes up.

You click on canned replies and then you can see the list of all the items in that particular list for that particular session.

Then you just click on, let's say, narrow reading, and it then puts that prompt directly into the text box in ChatGPT.

So it's just a lot quicker put in your prompts.

And because you can export each list separately in canned replies, you can rename each one.

So let's say, I don't know, I do a four-part webinar series, for example.

So I've got four separate canned replies lists.

But if I'm doing a bespoke version for a particular school, let's say all I have to do is go to my Google Docs that I've got available for this.

So I've got like one per session and then just copy and paste the prompts I want to a particular list in canned replies, and then I've got it at my fingertips.

So that's really useful for saving time with inputting prompts, I think.

So that's what narrow reading is.

So the idea is that you are to use the term input flooding, which is based on the work of Dr Gianfranco Conti, who came up with the idea of well, that's where I first heard about it.

Narrow reading.

So it's the idea of this input flooding that you are exposing the students to the same structures, but with slight differences.

So you're focusing on the fact that the comprehension of the text is, let's say, 95 comprehension already.

So you're just changing slight things.

But then the questions which ChatGPT can do a very good job in generating.

They can then work out what the answers are.

So in the example I give in the prompt is I say to ChatGPT can you create four texts about the morning routine of four different people with slight differences?

The differences sorry would be in the things that those four people are doing or the language structures being used.

Yeah.

So it'd be, for example, each one will have what time they wake up, and there'll be maybe slight differences.

Or, instead of waking up, getting up.

So maybe two of them, because the examples are normally in different languages, like French Spanish, et cetera.

So let's say in French it would be, They would use to wake up.

Or he or she wakes up, or he or she gets up, and then different times.

And then afterwards it would be one of them says that they take a shower, or one of them says they have breakfast.

And then at what time or what they have for breakfast.

So the structures are similar, there's diff, there's little differences, and so the idea is then you would then check um with the.

The students would then um be able to do the activity and, as a teacher, you could then check their understanding that they uh that around the the four different texts.

But um, you're not changing things hugely, you're just making little changes and they have to identify what the differences are.

So if you're, if If you're teaching English, you could have the four different descriptions of these four people's morning routines.

And it's a way of introducing various different phrases for describing morning routine, where you've got things like that you can present be asleep um, to sleep, to be sleeping, to wake up, to get up, to get dressed, you know and, but you can't.

It's very difficult to put all of those phrases into one single person's routine because otherwise it's going to be a strange sounding routine if you include all those phrases.

I was going to say that you would use, let's say, the third person, singular form of the verb.

I'm not suggesting that you use different forms of the verb.

I'm suggesting that you use, let's say, the third person singular form of the verb singular to wake up or to get up.

And so I'm not suggesting yet that you would use a whole range of different versions of the same verb.

It's always going to be he or she.

It's always going to be he or she, basically.

Although maybe one of them could be I, you know, maybe one of them could be I in there as well.

But the point is that yeah, so the narrow reading is a way of basically presenting language in the context of a text, and the students are noticing Certain specific little differences between the texts.

Similar texts, but they're focusing in a narrow way on specific structural or grammatical differences, or maybe lexical differences between those texts.

And ChatGPT is great for creating an exercise like that.

That's what I was going to say, that of course.

Well, when I'm presenting about this, I'm saying, of course anybody who's a teacher could create this, but the fact that ChatGPT can do it so much more quickly.

And the other thing that I say a lot as well, which is what I sort of learned over time through experience, which I'm sure you're exactly the same that it's almost like the output that ChatGPT creates is a starting point.

You wouldn't necessarily use it exactly how it is.

It's a starting point.

And you think, oh, yeah, I like that.

I don't like that as much.

And then you can then adapt it and change it.

But to have ChatGPT generate, if you like, your first draft as a way of avoiding the blank page or the blinking cursor or what have you.

It's just a great starting point.

And again, some detractors say, oh, it's going to kill creativity.

To me, it's the opposite.

It's actually a great way of channeling your creativity and getting you sort of fired up and giving you ideas and inspiration on how you could then change your lesson plan based on uh, what chat activity is generating or giving you ideas, or maybe it's something that you haven't done for five years.

You think, oh yeah, of course i haven't done that idea before.

Um, for ages, i'll do that again.

Or i've got that resource on that that, or it, just it, just you know fire synapses in your, in your brain.

You've got a great example of that, joe.

I've got a great example of that.

So um, I guess it was maybe a couple of months ago, two and a half months ago, or something.

I published an episode which is called Describing a Car Accident in 15 Plus Different Styles of English.

And for years, I know it sounds a bit specific, maybe the car accident was a bit of a weird one.

I could have chosen something else, but I went with the car accident.

Anyway, maybe I should have renamed the episode How English Changes in Different Situations, you know, because that was kind of the point.

But anyway, I went with the car accident one.

You know, a screenplay of an action movie, or even in the, in the style of a specific movie franchise, like Lord of the Rings, or how Shakespeare would do it.

And I had always wanted to do that but struggled to do it.

Understandably, because it's a huge challenge for a writer to be able to write 100 words or 300 words or whatever, about exactly the same thing, saying essentially the same things, covering the same facts of a car accident or whatever it is, but in those different styles.

And then ChatGPT came along and I realised, ah, now I can do it.

And did it.

It was immensely satisfying and lots of fun.

I mean, the episode was probably far too long and I don't know how many people listened to all of it.

But the people who did listen to it all, I think, enjoyed it and appreciated the idea, which was that this is actually a very, very effective way of comparing different styles of English, you know.

And it was fun as well.

It was quite funny, too.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

I think that's what ChatGPT one of the things it's very good at creating a whole range of different types of text with different tones for different audiences.

It can come across as a bit gimmicky.

I mean, is that the sort of thing that you would use in lessons?

In other words, once you've generated the content in different styles, would you use it as is or would you adapt it again once you've got that initial output?

I did adapt.

So for the episode I did, I did adapt a little bit.

But I also, sort of like, tried to leave it alone as well, because it was also an exercise in again presenting ChatGPT and considering it.

But for lessons, yeah, sure, I would.

I would adapt if I saw fit.

I mean for the texts that it created.

For the most part I didn't really need to adapt them that much.

They were pretty good.

There were just a couple of changes I made for laughs, to be honest, like a couple of little additions that I thought would make people laugh, but I probably wouldn't adapt them that much.

Depends.

But yeah, that could be a really good lesson that you know like incorporated into a proper lesson flow.

You could have an exercise in identifying, like labelling, the different types of English.

If you've got the lists of like action, movie screenplay, politician making a speech, news report, whatever it was, and then the paragraphs, they could just quickly skim, read the paragraphs and then match the different types and then they would maybe do a more narrow reading exercise where they would actually identify specific reasons why this is a movie screenplay and this is a formal, this is a news report in a broadsheet newspaper and this one is from a tabloid newspaper, identifying the different specific grammatical structures or vocabulary differences, you know.

So yeah, I would definitely do that Fantastic.

You just touched on top humor a little bit a moment ago in relation to ChatGPT.

Is that something that you found ChatGPT is good at, right?

Because the reason I ask that question is again in examples that I've shown in webinars.

I'll say well, one classic one again.

Going back to morning routine, I'll say to ChatGPT could you create a 100-word text on the morning routine of Mickey Mouse And can you make it funny, or can you make it very funny type thing?

And it generates some output, generates some text.

And then I ask the audience if they think it is funny and what is it about it that's funny.

And in general, a lot of the humour is just either great or isn't funny, in my opinion.

I don't know if you agree, but one thing I think that it doesn't do as well is trying to be funny or other things like writing songs or quoting from song lyrics or things like that.

I just found it's really hammy and awful and trite and not good at all, i mean as a as a stand-up.

What would you say about that?

Would you agree with that?

Or have you ever used it as a way of um channeling your creativity, as a way of creating jokes?

Maybe, i don't know.

No no, i find in my experience that chat gpt as a comedian is pretty terrible.

I mean, you know, depends on what the benchmark is right.

I mean, if the benchmark is, If what we expect from it is the standard of a good professional stand-up comedian, then it falls way short.

I mean, it can come up with some puns, right?

It can create little puns and word jokes.

But I suppose what this means is that humour or maybe something else like song lyrics, making music, making songs that move people and do the things that good songs should do.

This is a very mysterious art, isn't it?

It's like magic or something, and there's something innately very human in there.

We don't really know how to describe or define it.

People write books about jokes and humour and how it works, and there's a little element of mystery.

I'm calling it mystery because I don't really understand it, but there's something...

It's just something quintessentially human about a successful stand-up comedy routine.

Also, it's about context as well.

The context of comedy.

If you're in the middle of a lesson or a conference and you just type in to chat.

GPT, just make us laugh.

I mean, that's very, very, very, very difficult, even for a professional comedian.

If it's not within the context of a comedy show and it's not being built up and presented in a certain way with certain audience expectations, then laughter might not happen.

The audience need to be sitting in the dark.

There needs to be a microphone.

Everyone needs to see the comedian.

There needs to be music.

There needs to be an announcement.

The comedian comes on stage.

The music stops at the right time and they deliver their pre-prepared material with the attitude, with the physical movements and stuff.

And all those things combine to create a moment in which people will laugh, you know, because it's sort of like the situation almost requires laughter from the audience because we've created the social conditions for it.

So maybe we're asking a lot of chat GPT to make us laugh just from a cold opening, from nothing.

We're like, create a narrow reading exercise.

OK, now make me laugh.

And, you know, that's a challenge.

But, yeah, I agree.

I think that the jokes it comes up with or the humour it comes up with is pretty...

Yeah, pretty hackneyed, cheesy, one-dimensional.

Safe as well.

It has to be quite safe, because I think that ChatGPT is designed not to be controversial and not to offend and stuff like that.

So it's often pretty safe.

And you know, humour often has to have a bit of an edge to it in order for it to really bite, you know.

I did so in the episode I talked about describing the car accident.

One of the descriptions, one of the styles was a stand-up comedian delivering a routine.

And I had to work a little hard to sort of imagine I was a comedian and sort of try and work with the material.

But I remember thinking I would not like to go up on stage in front of an audience with this material.

I would be feeling very nervous beforehand because I would feel like there's not really a lot here.

I mean, the best it could do was it describe.

You know, some people commented, saying you know what?

I thought the comedy routine was actually very funny, but the best it could do was to say, oh uh, you know, I thought the person who crashed into me did a really good job.

They managed to turn their car all the way around 180 degrees.

But then I realised that he'd just crashed into me.

So maybe not, right?

You know, it wasn't bad.

It wasn't bad, but not good enough.

I mean the whole way that Chats with Tea works.

As you know is OpenAI have scraped all this content from the internet, publicly available content, which is why it's very good at, for example, creating different types of texts in different styles, as you talked about.

So presumably, as part of that, it scraped lots and lots of jokes, I would imagine.

But I wonder why it is that it's just not very good at creating, for example jokes, but also things like songs or poems.

One thing I really liked about your I think it was the third video clip was asking Chatterjee to create mnemonics for practicing grammar, which I'd never thought about before.

I thought that was really cool, and it seems to do it very well.

But it just falls down on some other sort of creative ideas.

And, as you say, it sort of comes up with just really corny words output that maybe you could use as a starting point and that would, you know, create an idea on how you could then make that actually funny.

I actually find the laughs in that situation, just as a teacher or a comedian or a comedian teacher or whatever it is I am, I don't know, but the laughs I find if that's what we're looking for.

Sometimes it's not appropriate in a class, but anyway Moments of levity can come from the fact that I've told them okay.

So I asked ChatGPT to make some comedy and this is the paragraph it came up with.

And then say, so here we go, let's read it.

And then at the end when they've read it and I'll sort of go, so that was funny, wasn't it?

And that makes them laugh because we're laughing at ChatGPT, essentially.

We're sort of pointing at it and going, oh, that wasn't very funny.

Ha ha.

On the reverse side of that.

One thing which I have been laughing out loud about that ChatGPT has been able to do is I've been playing around a lot with another Chrome extension called Voice Control for ChatGPT.

Oh, great.

I don't know it, but just as a guess, I'm guessing that you can make ChatGPT speak and listen.

Is that right?

Yeah, that's right.

So there's a couple of extensions which allow you to do that.

But I played around with a few, but easily the best, in my opinion, is voice control for ChatGPT.

So what it allows you to do is you can enable the text-to-speech so it can reply to you, which is a little bit weird.

You can ask it a question using your voice.

So you have a nice microphone feature. icon appears at the bottom of the ChatGPT interface.

Once you've got the extension installed, you click on that.

You then talk for as long as you want to.

And even if you make grammatical mistakes or there's misunderstandings in the pronunciation, it normally understands what you're trying to say.

Then it will then reply to you.

Although i tend to be honest with you, i tend to mute the uh text to speech, otherwise it can take a long time and sometimes it will like stop halfway through a sentence which, intonation wise, sounds very odd, and then it sort of carries on but um, In relation to humour, I was inspired by a tweet around asking a question and getting two possible answers.

This was from Sam Sam Gravel, G-R-A-V-E-L-L, who is based in Germany.

And he's tweeted a lot about ChatGPT and he did a webinar I attended recently, which was very good.

And I was inspired by that.

So what I did was I sort of adapted, similar to what I was saying earlier about PowerPoints I adapted the idea and put it into a different context.

So Typically, when I've been demonstrating how to use voice control for chat GPT, I will start off using my voice saying okay, I want you to play the role of a waiter in a French cafe.

Or if I'm working with ELT people, I'll say in an English cafe, I want you to play the role of the waiter.

I'm an A1 level learner of English, even though obviously I'm not.

I'm an A1 level learner of English.

I want to practice my English with you.

I don't want you to use any other language apart from English, and I want you to reply to each of my answers in turn, et cetera.

So then that normally works.

Sometimes it will misunderstand or hallucinate and it will generate the whole conversation, which is to say no, that's not what I want.

And that's why voice control for ChatGPT is so good for quickly understanding, creating different iterations by giving quick responses.

But no, no, don't do it that way.

I want you to do it this way.

So it would do really, really well on that.

So I would enable the text to speech.

So I would then say, hello, I'd like to buy a croissant and a coffee, please.

And then it would then come up with you know, a nice little line about that.

Yes, of course blah blah, blah.

And then i would then say the next line, and so on and so forth.

So it's a really nice way of being able to practice conversation.

But then, based on the, the tweet that um, i'd seen that sam had done, i then said okay, and i've written a prompt for this as well.

I, i put the prompt in and essentially it's the same thing.

But then i then say i want you to give me a sensible answer and i want you to give me a ridiculous answer.

Right, And it's brilliantly and it was genuinely funny.

So it would say, for example, you know, I would say, can I have a coffee and a croissant?

And it would say, oh, I'm very sorry, sir.

We're out of coffee.

And I said, but this is a cafe.

So what was funny about it, I could either respond to the sensible answer or the silly answer.

And it would yeah, it would come up with, you know, a really something that I thought was generally funny.

So, for example, as another example uh, another example of the ridiculous answer, it might be um oh um, i'd ask for some, maybe some jam, uh with the uh with the croissant.

It would say oh, we've got this um special this week, some unicorn jam, or we've got um croissants the size of pillows, or whatever it might be.

So you'd have to adapt it according to the audience.

I mean, i know you can say, you know, like um, the audience is, let's say, a1 learners of english, but sometimes it doesn't do as well on the when it's trying to dumb it down to the students who've got less language.

It's not brilliant.

It's very good at intermediate level tech.

So maybe you'd have to do a bit of tweaking with it.

But I just thought it worked really well.

So you could then take that content, either do it live with a class or take the content and then say what is ridiculous about the second answer for each line.

And I just think that'd be a lot of fun.

And then you could then use that as a model for then the students to come up with their own funny dialogues.

And because as you know, if there's something funny in the lesson, it's gonna be more engaging for the students and it's gonna help them with their memory around certain certain structures so i thought it was you know i mean it was a bit corny i suppose but it was genuinely funny when i worked out that it worked i was generally laughing out loud not just like lol but generally you know laughing out again that is brilliant that's so fun i think that they're to be honest in a language classroom the corny humor is often great actually because you don't really necessarily want something edgy and challenging in that environment, not at all.

Because you know you don't want to upset anyone.

But in a classroom, no, you want to keep things safe.

And so Unicorn Jam is absolutely the stuff of great... moments in an English lesson, I'm convinced.

So yeah, chat GPT can definitely help to bring, as I said, levity or humour into the classroom.

You just have to be prepared to expect a certain level of corniness.

But as you said, it's a great way of just throwing in A funny little element.

So yeah, if you've got those three morning routines, you've got like Steve, Jeff and Sarah.

You know that's great and everything, but it's also pretty boring, isn't it?

And I know, as an English teacher, I've often sometimes struggled to motivate my students with that kind of content where you're using a course book which has been really well put together.

They've gone for the more realistic stuff rather than the ridiculous stuff, understandably.

And so you've got Jeff, Steve and Sarah, whatever it is, their routines.

And the students are like, we don't care about Jeff, Steve and Sarah.

Who are these people anyway?

We know they don't exist.

We're never going to meet them.

We don't care.

That's in the back of everyone's minds.

And it requires them to go, it's all right.

It's an English lesson.

Let's just go with it, whereas if the fourth routine was mr bean or mickey mouse, then that would deal with that little problem in their minds which is like i don't care about these people, they don't even exist, and that that can often be all you need to just break through that other little barrier which is stopping the students from really engaging with what they're doing.

And it doesn't.

Yeah, it doesn't have to be cool, it can be stupid, that's totally fine.

Yeah, and Absolutely.

And I think, in that context, what I would do if I was the teacher is maybe ask a couple of the students to nominate themselves, and I would then ask them to tell me a little bit of information about what I could include within those morning routines, and then just prompt that into ChatGPT using my voice saying okay, I want you to rewrite this.

I want you to talk about.

You know, let's say – I wouldn't say the actual names, but let's say student one, student two, student three, but actually I would say their actual names.

And then I would say student one likes – whatever it might be, likes football, or students who likes whatever it might be that I know that they generally are into and like, and then get it to recreate the text, but reflecting the interests of the students in the class.

And that would certainly, I would imagine, create some humour and get some engagement.

And then it wouldn't become.

It wouldn't be as dry compared to, let's say, a standard sort of, let's say, textbook activity.

That said as well, what you could do is you could respecting copyright of course take a text from a textbook, feed it into ChatGPT, but then ask it to create a similar text, but not exactly the same.

And then...

Because you can't copyright text which ChatGPT is generating.

In fact, if you look at the terms and conditions in OpenAI, it says that essentially you own any content that ChatGPT generates, which I think is also a really important thing, particularly if you're going to go down the route of selling resources that you've created.

But you could easily adapt things using ChatGPT for different types of activities.

Once you've got the core text, you can then get it to generate a whole range of different types of exercises, but make it more relevant to the students by involving them, having them being the characters within the text.

And I think that would be one way, that would be a great way of making the content more relevant and engaging for them.

Mm-hmm.

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So let's just take stock of some of the things we've talked about here.

So assessing ChatGPT as a language learning and language teaching tool, you're an enthusiast and you think it actually opens the door for creativity.

There is another side to that argument.

We're not going to go down that route right now.

But in terms of the good things, it's good at creating texts in different styles and in ways that can be very useful.

You can personalise those texts in whatever way you want.

For example, you can incorporate the members of your classroom into the texts.

You can create an academic-style article, a news article, a diary entry, whatever it is, and you can do it very, very quickly and that can be a great way of studying language and the different ways in which it's constructed and presented, and stuff.

It's great for presenting examples of language that you're learning.

So if you've got a list of target vocabulary items that maybe, for example, I'm talking to my audience now.

Maybe you have picked out a vocab list from a page from on my website.

So if, for example, some episode from my archive I picked out maybe 15 different bits of language that turned up in that episode, you could take those expressions and put them into chat GPT and say can you make some example sentences using these phrases in different forms?

Or you could say, can you make a little story with these phrases?

And then you're essentially recycling some of the language.

And then there's a process where you listen to the episode.

You notice the language being used there.

Then you put it into a story in a different context.

You see the language being used in that context.

And then you can say to chat GPT, Can you replace all of those words and phrases with numbers in the text? and it it does that sometimes it does it well and sometimes it goes and doesn't do it right so but i mean if you get it to do that successfully the end of the process is that then you can try and remember the missing words and phrases but does it see this is the problem there's stumbling blocks with chat gpt sometimes it doesn't do what you want it to do and you have to try and rewrite your prompt and try again and again and again and sometimes it doesn't have you experienced that Absolutely.

That was one thing which I was hoping we were going to get onto, which is brilliant.

One thing, I demonstrate exactly that.

So I will.

Having generated my hilarious text about the morning routine of Mickey Mouse, I'll then say can you now create a gap?

Fill of that text.

So normally it will create a gap fill, but it will replace, let's say, some of the words with numbers.

I then click regenerate, and then sometimes it does exactly the same thing.

I then click regenerate again, or however many times is required, and it replaces the numbers with underscores.

Then I click regenerate again, then it will give underscores, and the numbers are in brackets.

So the point I'm making here is that JackGBT is not consistent with its output, even if you have a very precise prompt.

But what I think it's very good at, as I've said a few times, is to generate the text.

And then I would then copy that text and I put it into a third party tool, for example, Wordwall.

And then you have complete control over the gaps that you create.

Because if you say, for example, similar to what you just said, if you say, could you please remove all the verbs from the text, it just doesn't do it.

It will remove some of the verbs, but some of the verbs it will just completely ignore.

So it's not good on that real like drilling down into being really accurate about what you're asking it to do, but then take the text, put it into word wall or learning apps, which is completely free.

And there's a closed text option or there's a really cool google docs extension um which you can get via the uh, the extensions menu in google docs.

You then go to get add-ons and then you search for close it, which is one word, c-l-o-z-e in capital letters, and then i-t um at the end close it, and that is a google box extension.

So once you've installed it, you then go to the extensions menu again.

You click on close it.

You then click run or start.

You click on start.

That's right.

A pane appears on the right hand side with the instructions.

And then what you do is you?

Then, let's say, you click on an individual word, let's say a verb in your text that you've pasted in from ChatGPT.

And then you use the highlighter tool to change the background color to say yellow or something different to the standard background color in your page.

And then on the left-hand side, there's an option which says Paint Format.

So in Word, it's called Format Painter.

So of course Google Docs like to call it Paint Format then double click on that and what that does is it um?

It recognizes or copies the formatting on the text that you have um highlighted.

So you've got one verb highlighted.

You double click on the paint format option and then you basically go through and just double click all the words you want to turn into gaps, for example all the verbs.

Then on the right hand side in the pane that's appeared, there's a blue button which is something like create word bank from text, i think.

You click on that and then, as if by magic, all the highlighted words are replaced with underscores and then you have a list which is obviously not in chronological order, otherwise the gap will be redundant.

You just have a list of the different items you've removed and it's all there there for you.

So from there you can then turn it into a worksheet.

Or, if you work in a microsoft environment, You click on the file download menu and then download it as a Microsoft Word document and turn it into a worksheet.

So what I like about that, that was my sort of work around, having got frustrated by the fact that ChatGPT was not good at creating gap fills, which was specific.

I mean, it's okay about making a gap fill, but not specifically about, let's say, all the verbs.

It just doesn't do that very well.

It refuses to do that.

It actually in some cases you say, can you, can you replace all these verbs with with gaps, and it sort of refuses to.

I don't know what it's thinking, whether it refuses to sort of what's the word for it, like create.

It refuses to kind of twist the language or break the language because it's a language based model.

So it's like, no, sorry, I can't make a sentence where the verb is a line.

Just sorry, I refuse to do it.

I'm a language based model and that's not language.

So I will not do it.

It's kind of what it what it thinks, isn't it?

Well, I presume what it's doing is it's not able to recognize what is the verb in the text.

Maybe, or enough times.

I mean, I don't know, but it doesn't do it very well.

Whereas, let's say, with a tool like Wheel of Names, which is amazing for creating – well, normally you'd use it as a name picker but, for example, you could ask ChatGPT to generate 10 sentences – looking at phrasal verbs, with the infinitive and the, let's say, four different options for each sentence.

So go up, go down, go in, go through, whatever it might be, and then a gap for the correct answer.

And then the students would then have to choose what the correct answer was from each one.

And that works OK, as long as you make sure that each sentence has the answers going straight after the sentence, not underneath.

Because if you do that, when you copy and paste the results into Wheel of Name, it will have each answer as a separate item in the Wheel of Name.

So you want each item to include the sentence plus the four possible answers in that same sentence, if that makes sense.

So that's a quick and easy way of creating, let's say, 10 questions on whichever topic you want.

You then spin the wheel, one of the questions will come up, and then obviously you'd ask the students what the correct phrase or verb was.

So again, you could do that manually, but it's a lot quicker to do it via wheel of name.

So I don't know, I don't know.

I just having experimented a lot with this, I know hand on heart it's not good at the identifying individual verbs like that in a gapful context, but it is okay at creating, let's say, 10 sentences.

Looking at a topic like phrasal verbs, it can do that well, but it can't do the job of removing all the verbs from a text and replacing them with gaps.

It will make it helpful, but not particularly on a particular item in chat.

Listeners, these are the things that... language teachers need to do.

This is kind of like the stuff that we do in the teacher's room when we're in a rush trying to get our lessons ready.

We've got a text.

We're like, I just want to turn this into a gap fill.

How do I turn this into a gap fill?

Because you know these are the things that are important to us teachers.

You know when we're trying to create our lessons.

So I don't know if everyone listening who is a learner of English is really able to understand all of the things we've just talked about.

But essentially we're saying Can ChatGPT make worksheets for us in which certain bits of language are replaced with gaps that you, the learners, have to then complete with the target language?

Or can it, for example, take a list of questions and present those questions randomly?

Or can it take the questions and the answers, separate the answers from the questions and present them in a random list below the list of questions?

These are the sort of mechanical things that we... that takes so much time, and time is money.

This is what's so important.

Again, just recapping some of the things we've mentioned that it's good and bad at.

We've talked about some of the good things.

We've mentioned some of the bad things.

We also said that humour is not so good at that, or it comes up with cheesy stuff.

Intonation, you mentioned before.

So, if we talk about pronunciation, you've talked about the Google Chrome extension, which is I can't remember what it's called now voice control for chat GPT which is potentially a game changer because it means that you know people possibly can practice their speaking skills where they talk and have a conversation with it.

We can discuss whether it's a good conversationalist in a moment.

But you mentioned intonation.

And when it talks back to you through voice control for ChatGPT, is it a realistic sounding voice or is the intonation sentence, stress and so on?

All a bit weird.

That's a really good question.

So in general I would say it gives a good model.

But I find it amusing sometimes when it will sort of literally stop halfway through a sentence and there'll be a second pause, which sounds like a huge amount of time.

Actually, when you're listening to someone or I say someone the AI reading back to you.

So there's this pause, and then it then carries on, as it were, which I just find fascinating amusing, but obviously that's not really what we want in an English lesson to help with intonation and pronunciation.

One thing that I do is I know I mentioned another Chrome extension, but there's a Chrome extension called user immersive reader on websites which, if people don't know, Immersive Reader is part of the Microsoft suite.

So it comes bundled with, for example, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Class Notebook.

It's also built into Flip, formerly known as Flipgrid and Wakelet and those sorts of tools.

But this completely free Chrome extension.

What it allows you to do is you can highlight some text generated, for example, by ChatGPT, and then you right click the selection and it will say help me read this.

And the reason it says help me read this is because you've got the extension installed.

It will then launch the text you've highlighted into immersive reader, and then you just press play and it recognizes the language automatically.

So you get a very good model of pronunciation, I think.

Again, the intonation occasionally is not great, but it's not as bad compared to voice control for chat GPT.

On occasion.

I'm not trying to paint voice control for chat GPT as being bad, because it's brilliant, absolutely brilliant, but same long pause in user immersive reader compared to HPT.

And you can also do things like change the speed, change it to a male or female voice.

And you've got other features as well.

For example, you can change the background color to another color, such as yellow or green, which might be helpful for dyslexic readers.

For example, you can change the line spacing.

You can change the different parts of speech.

So you can have all the nouns or the verbs or the adjectives or the adverbs appearing different colors.

You can enable a labeling option, which means that above each word it will say N for noun or V for verb, et cetera.

You can also have a line focus, so that you can have one line focus, which means that, apart from the one line focus which you can see, everything else is blacked off.

Or you can have three lines at a time and everything else is blacked off, which I think is again really useful.

In the olden days talking about the olden days when I was teaching you would have a ruler and you put the ruler on the page and move the ruler down one line at a time.

This is the same thing, but just a digital equivalent.

So it does all those things really really well, I think, as a model of pronunciation and encouraging independence.

And in the official version, in Microsoft Word, for example, there's a new feature which is only available in that which is called or only available in Microsoft tools.

There's also there's a there's an app called Microsoft Lens.

So similar to, in fact, when you were talking about I've got the gap fill in my, I've got the text in my textbook.

How do I make that into a gap fill?

You could actually scan it using the Microsoft Lens option, which will then run OCR on it, and it will allow you to then export it to, for example, Immersive Reader, which means you could then have the text read back to you really, really easily.

But you can also export it to, say, Microsoft Word as well.

And then, once it's in Word, you could then copy that, put it into ChatGPT and ask it to generate a GAP file.

So in other words, it makes it into digital text based on a photo.

You can also do that with an iPhone as well using the Note app.

But anyway, Reading Coach, which is a new feature, only available in Microsoft Tools, which is also available in Lens, as I was saying, is it turns the play button which is in the middle, at the bottom of the immersive reader interface into a microphone.

And what that allows you to do.

You can then read back the text that you've, let's say, created using ChatGPT.

It will then listen to what you've said, your pronunciation, and then it will then pick up um, five words it thinks you need to practice.

It will say what your accuracy is as a percentage, it will say how long you read the text for, etc.

And then, once you've got those five words to work on, you can then have another go at um um, saying the uh, the answer, or there's a little loudspeaker icon so you can click on that and then listen to what the model of pronunciation is saying and then try to replicate that.

And i've been going to dublin a lot recently doing courses on how digital technology can be used, not just with english language use.

Most of the people that come are english language teachers from around europe, but occasionally i get people teaching other subjects as well.

And they find it hilarious when, for example, I don't know why it is, but a word like which, as in W-H-I-C-H, however many times I pronounce it, it will not accept that I've, It won't give me the green option.

It will give me the gold option, which is saying that I've mispronounced it, which I just find...

Again, it's using AI, but most of the time it does a very good job with helping with pronunciation.

So, for listeners who have access to an Office 365 subscription, do check out the reading coach option within Immersive Reader as a way of practicing pronunciation.

So we're mentioning lots and lots of different Chrome extensions.

Which you can usually get for free.

You can add them to Google Chrome on your computer.

You also mentioned Microsoft Tools and the different tools that are available through that, through Microsoft 365, which is the sort of modern day Office suite software.

So that might be a little bit confusing for some people listening, but I will leave a list, either in the show notes or on the page for this episode on my website, of all those different Chrome extensions and other tools that we've mentioned here.

Maybe some people listening to this will naturally be thinking can this technology ever replace just the value of having a human teacher in front of you?

Will this technology ever replace the need for having a human teacher in front of you?

What do you think?

I would say absolutely no.

I think it will never replace a teacher.

But I think what it's brilliant at is for those people who just can't get enough or want to have independent practice at two o'clock in the morning, whatever.

There's nothing stopping them from using ChatGPT as a type of learning buddy, if you like.

So I think it's really really good to ChatGPT at, for example, A bit like with the cafe example, I asked Chachapati to play the role of the waiter.

You could certainly say, okay, I want you to play the role of an English teacher.

I'm going to practice my conversation with you, or I'm going to practice my writing with you.

I want you to give me feedback.

And I think it does a really good job in doing that.

So, in other words, if I've done this again in webinars et cetera, I've said okay, I would like you to give me some model answers about the topic of school.

I'm then going to write a sentence and I want you to give me some feedback based on what I've done.

So I'll look at what the model has appeared as, and then I will make some deliberate mistakes and I will then see if HBT does a good job in giving me some feedback.

And it does really, really well.

And it will then give me the feedback with explanations in English, obviously.

And then it will then give me some explanations in context.

It will give me further examples if I prompt it to do that.

It's absolutely brilliant for that.

So I think, as a way of promoting independence and as a learning buddy, I think it will.

It will be.

It's an add on.

It's a way of supplementing what's done in class.

Um, a little bit like having your own private tutor, as it were.

But it doesn't.

It can't replicate that sort of um empathy that a teacher has, those soft skills that a teacher has, the natural humor that a teacher has, etc etc.

It cannot replace those um, those soft skills, those features, um.

I mean, for example, I know I keep mentioning Chrome extensions, but there's another Chrome extension which is YouTube Summary or ChatGPT and YouTube Summary.

I think it is.

ChatGPT and YouTube Summary.

I think that's what it is.

But there's a few out there that are similar to that.

And essentially what it allows you to do is any YouTube clip you come across.

You can click on the summary option that comes up with the extension installed.

It will then give you a nice little summary.

So it could be a great way, for example, of getting an idea of what the video is about.

And then because everyone is busy, you said yourself, time is money.

I couldn't agree more.

And therefore, if we can work out the main contents of, let's say, an hour and a half video of an English teacher talking about ChatGPT, and then we then decide whether we want to watch it or not, then that could be incredibly useful.

In relation to that, I've also come up with a prompt which harnesses the, the transcript which comes automatically with most YouTube clips.

So you've got the three dots underneath most YouTube.

Well, underneath every single YouTube player, you have the three dots.

But if you click on that on most of them, it will say show transcript.

It won't always say that.

But if it does say show transcript, you can click on that and then you can copy the transcript, as long as you do it in sort of chunks.

I find that it only works with ten minutes or less.

You can do it in 10-minute chunks.

Let's say it's an hour long.

You could do like six chunks or so, 10 minutes per chunk.

I then have written this prompt.

You then put it into ChatGPT, having put the prompt in.

And what it does is it generates a table with different questions, and then the correct answer, and then the timestamp when that question should come up, and then the same answer, with the three distractors underneath.

And the reason I've done that is so I can then take that content and I can then use it in a tool called Edpuzzle, which allows you to create listening comprehension activities from a YouTube clip as well as other video platforms.

In fact, you can even upload your own video that you can make using the Chrome extension, which is also called Edpuzzle.

So once you've generated the questions using the timestamps in the transcript generated through JackGBT, you can then literally just copy and paste them into the Edpuzzle interface.

And it's a great way of practicing your listening skills, either as a teacher or as an independent student who wants to get extra practice.

So it's just working out ways and use cases that can help in the ELT market, as it were.

So I think that's a really nice one.

Again, as long as the video clip is quite short, it seems to work well.

If it's longer than i know i just talked about um, let's say it's an hour long, hour and a half long then the summary extension will work fine.

But if you want to make it into a listing comprehension activity using say edpuzzle, i found that you shouldn't have the clip longer than say, eight or 10 minutes.

Otherwise, it would just, again, hallucinate and make things up.

Or it'll have a great gap between one timestamp and another timestamp, which is obviously not what you want.

So the shorter, the better.

I have tried those things.

I'm not sure if it's exactly the same extensions, but I've tried similar things with my content and, as you know, some of my episodes are very long and, as you say, it doesn't handle it very well.

It's not that great at summarising my stuff because I have a lot of tangents and I get distracted by peripheral things which are not part of the main point of what I'm saying.

There'll be little moments of comedy where I kind of drift off.

For the human beings listening, those are important ways to keep their attention.

You know, like little moments of comedy, just sort of like maintain the attention.

And then we go back to the main point.

But the AI or whatever it is, the software, isn't really able to distinguish between those things and the main idea.

And so it will kind of give me a summary of my episode in chapters or whatever.

And the chapters aren't quite right.

And it's including tangents or moments of being sidetracked as main points of order in the episode.

And so yeah, you've got to play around with chat, GPT and all the additional peripheral extensions that can work with it.

You've got to play around with these things and work with them and play with them and learn what they can do well and what they don't do so well.

And unfortunately, you've always got to be prepared for it to get things wrong.

And, as you say, to hallucinate or to see things that aren't actually there, or hear things that aren't there, or to kind of not quite pick up on the tone of certain things and to just get things a bit wrong.

So yeah, I mean, we're still working with these things.

I reckon...

I mean, you know, as we move forwards over the next few years, I'm sure that certain things will get stronger and stronger and stronger, and it will get more and more reliable.

Do you think there's anything frightening?

I think that some people's reactions to AI and chat GPT are perhaps even understandably, to be a little bit fearful and worried about it.

What do you think?

Yeah, totally.

I think in the wider world, I think obviously there are lots of people who are worried it's going to affect or decimate their livelihood.

For example, there are actors in Hollywood at the moment who are going on strike because of the fact that they are very concerned about scripts being written in Chachamiti or voiceovers, or musicians who are having their voices cloned using AI, and the AI is then producing songs that they've never obviously sung on and not getting any money from, any royalties from, etc.

And it's quite amusing to start off by seeing examples of, I don't know, Beyonce singing my old man's a dustman i'm not saying that actually exists it's out there but let's imagine something silly like that like paul mccartney singing um a beach boys song or maybe uh john lennon singing a paul mccartney song or something like that yeah yeah yeah yeah but but in the in the reality in the cold light of of day then clearly if it's going to affect well not if it's going to when it affects livelihoods and it's there's going to be winners and losers with this i think then it's not funny at all.

But I think, just focusing on English language teaching and producing resources for English language teaching, I think it's wonderful.

But I think people are right to be fearful.

And I was watching the film Oppenheimer yesterday.

Three hours long, maybe a bit too long in a way, particularly towards the end.

I thought maybe they could have cut some of the court scenes a little bit.

But...

So in other words, really appreciating the seismic shift that the atomic bomb was going to have.

And I think we're in a similar situation now.

The seismic shift, the revolution we're going to see as a result of AI.

And who knows, you were saying in a couple of years time, be interested to see how it is.

Nobody really knows, do they?

And things are changing so quickly.

I mean, in a way, when ChatGPT first came out and all these extensions were coming out, et cetera.

It reminded me of Web 20 back in 2006, which was another type of revolution of all these startups making these freely available tools and then lots and lots of them failing because they just weren't popular enough, or what have you.

So you then get like the cream of the crop succeeding, and then those ones either carrying on being free or then putting some content behind a paywall.

And I do appreciate that companies need to make a living out of these things.

They spend a lot of time creating these things.

So I think that the more creative people are, the more interesting ideas that come out will change things again.

But I think just focusing on English language teaching, I think it's a really good thing.

But I totally hear people's fears and worries about how it is going to change world and uh, maybe around trust and disinformation and deep fake videos and all these things which i think rightly, we should all be very concerned about, and the fact that um, you know the impact on on social media as a result of elections in the uk and in the states and the effect of that, let alone what ai can then bring to the table in relation to uh distributing disinformation.

I think it is very very very, very worrying and very concerning.

But in our sort of context of teaching and learning, I think it's a really good thing.

And that's why I've been trying, in my webinars, et cetera, to promote the positive about what it can do and showing what it can do, but with some shortcomings.

Whereas when I first sort of started teaching I'm sure you're the same.

I sort of got a bit disappointed about the fact that it wasn't able to do some things which really, on paper, should be simple.

Like, as you say, removing all the verbs and replacing them with gaps.

It cannot do that very well or consistently well. other things it can do very, very well.

So I've started being asked to do sort of cross-curricular training sessions on ChatGPT.

And I know, for example, in subjects like maths, it's just not very good in general.

It's not very good at that sort of very accurate, precise answer that I'm looking for.

Whereas in other subjects, like English, it's very good at creating whole different types of text with different tones and all the rest of it.

So it's just working out in your own context if you're a teacher or whatever, you are a lawyer or a or a train driver or whatever it might be working at how AI can be used best in your context and harnessing that.

And that's what people all over the world are trying to do, which is why anything related to AI and chat GPT is proving so popular, I think.

Okay.

Very interesting stuff, Joe.

Yeah, there's so much more that we could talk about.

But we probably shouldn't let this conversation become as long as Oppenheimer.

Could I just mention, as I feel that we're about to wrap up, can I just mention one game-changing tool.

Yeah, I was actually going to say other AI language models and similar software are available.

Other things, it's not all just ChatGPT, there are others as well.

That is true.

But I think a lot of tools are sort of in the background are using this sort of OpenAI ChatGPT model.

But it might not be that they are, you know, it's not sort of front and center.

But yeah, absolutely.

There are other tools.

There's BARD, Google BARD.

Bing AI.

Bing AI, Bing search, chat, for example.

Claude is another one which I've not had a chance to play with yet.

But yeah, the tool which I think that your listeners, if they haven't heard of already, would be very interested in checking out, is called audiopenai.

Have you heard of it?

No, okay.

So audio pen uh, which launched in march 2023 um, what it allows you to do and you can actually do this without even having an account it's so amazing.

But if you create an account um, then it gives you more features.

So there's a free version and there's what's called the prime version, which is the premium version.

But basically, what it allows you to do is you speak into the microphone and you can record for as long as three minutes in the free version.

It then listens to what you've said.

It uploads it using, I think, an API called Whisper, which can analyze your voice, essentially.

It generates a transcript automatically And then from that transcript it will then generate a summary, all for free.

And it does a really good job.

And it will do it in a range of languages.

So you can, for example, have the input language as English and the output language as English.

And you could have the input language as French and the output language as English or whatever it might be.

And there's lots of possibilities.

So in the free version, as I say, you don't even have to have an account.

You can just...

Create the summary and you can then just copy that and paste that into wherever you want to paste it into Google Docs or Microsoft Word or what have you as part of a way of creating a worksheet, or as a learner?

You could use it as a way of practicing your pronunciation, because if it's misunderstood something that you've said, that will sort of highlight it, as it were.

And not only do you get the summary, you also get the original transcript as well, but with all the ums and errs removed.

So it's wonderful from that point of view.

Now, in the prime version, which is, I can't remember exactly how much it is now.

People will have to check it out.

I was very lucky as an early adopter.

I was able to get a lifetime subscription, which only cost me $30, which is completely ridiculous.

Whereas I think this is, it's now up to about $150.

And that's even that I think it's finishing this month.

And then it's going to be like a um, an annual, an annual fee for the prime version.

But with the prime version you can choose the the different formats that it will export as.

So one of my favorites is a bulleted list.

Now, of course, you could take the standard free um summary, put it into chat gpt and say turn this into a bullet bulleted list, which chat gpt is very good at.

But you can do some other things.

You can um change uh, not only, let's say, the bulleted list, you can have sort of um concise, witty summary, that sort of thing.

You can have different tones, as it were, and you can choose also if you want to have it concise, or about half the length of the transcript, or lengthier with more detail, et cetera.

So I would really recommend checking out.

And on my YouTube channel, which I mentioned already, because I'm just like this.

I got very passionate about it.

I contacted the creator, who is a guy called Luis Pereira, who is based in India.

And he basically does this as a side hustle.

He works with his family business during the day, but in the evening he works on audio pen and um.

I said could we do a podcast interview type thing using stream yard as opposed to um squadcast, which is what we're using right now?

And uh, he said yes and it's about a 25 minute long interview.

Just me saying how much i love the tool and him talking about where he came up the idea and what it can do, and and since then he's been adding more and more And there is now a Chrome extension as well for it, so you can record a voice note with a little pane on the right-hand side on whatever web page you're on.

You can make what are called super summaries as well, means you could be say, recording different notes um, on the same theme.

Let's say you're planning a trip or you've had a a meeting with someone and you want to make those into one super summary.

Does that really well?

There are now folders as well.

You can create folders if you've got lots of notes.

It's just, it's just wonderful.

So, to clarify, for a teacher, a great productivity tool for making a summary of, let's say, you've had a meeting with a parent or a colleague or a student and you want to make a summary of what you've said.

As a great, a great way of doing that is with audio pen.

And then, from the student point of view, a great way of practicing your pronunciation and getting a summary as well as the original transcript as well.

So what one task you could do is you could generate the summary, copy it into, let's say, another place like google docs, etc.

And take the transcript and then and then ask the students to identify the differences between the summary and the transcript and ask them to say why do you think that the ai has created this summary using, you know, this term or this uh, this use of language?

Why do you think that is?

Why do you think it's summarised in this way?

For example, that's just a few ideas.

Spotting synonymous language and spotting language.

That's essentially saying the same thing, but in fewer words.

Yeah, things like that.

And ChatGPT is very, very good.

So it's based on ChatGPT technology, as I was saying earlier, but it's just brilliant.

It's absolutely brilliant as an AI tool.

To see how that would be useful for a teacher to be able to, as you say, transcribe something you've said and give you a summary of it, which is very useful.

But for the learners yeah, it will transcribe the things you're saying.

It could highlight any little issues you've got with pronunciation.

It can, you know, translate what you've said into another language.

So you can kind of make sure that what you're saying is what you think you're saying.

So if you're Spanish and you want to like talk about I don't know what it would be the World Cup, for example, for three minutes, you could do that.

And you know your opinions on the world, your specific opinions about what happened in the World Cup, and then it will record you speaking English and then it will translate it into Spanish and you can see if the Spanish version is exactly what you actually meant to say, as long as the translation is probably pretty strong, I would say.

Yeah, or you could take that text and put it into something else like DeepL or Google Translate and Translate, and then compare the two.

But yeah, you've got the input and the output language.

Yeah.

Okay, great.

Interesting stuff.

So what do you think, Joe?

Where's the best place for people to go to kind of follow you and, you know, get your content and you know all the rest of it, if they're interested in hearing you speak about these sorts of things more?

What would you say?

Um, so Twitter, uh or X, I suppose I should say um.

I'm just at Joe Dale on on Twitter slash X Yeah.

I'm on LinkedIn.

Just do a search for Joe Dale.

It has my lovely picture, which may be nine years old now, but nevermind.

We won't uh, we're not accounting, but you can recognize me still, even though I've got a few gray hairs now.

But then my, my YouTube channel, which is uh, wwwyoutubecom forward slash at Joe Dale uh um, over 3 000 subscribers to that channel, which is really nice.

So those are the main places.

Oh, and the um, the facebook group that i mentioned, called language teaching with ai um, would be a great place to meet.

But if people want to join please please please, do answer the questions and agree to the group's rules, otherwise i will dismiss your invitation and ask you to redo it.

Okay, simply to avoid spam and bots and things like that.

All right wow, Fantastic.

Okay.

I never know how to end these sorts of things, but I don't know.

That's it.

That's the end.

Thank you.

I would just like to thank you, Luke, for this opportunity because it's been amazing.

I knew it would be amazing, but it's just been a great experience.

It's been great fun to drill down into what ChatGPT can do well and what it can't do well in a language learning, language teaching context with an expert like yourself.

And, as I say, thank you so much for those fantastic YouTube clips which really got me sort of fired up.

And that's why I wanted to get in touch so we could have a conversation like this.

And it has absolutely lived up to what I was hoping for, which is great.

And I know it's been quite techie for the listeners.

But if we do have a list of everything I've mentioned in the show notes, it will be a good starting point.

And I'm not saying try everything at once.

But for those people who may be more experienced with ChatGPT or like the idea of using their voice, using voice control for ChatGPT, just try that one out as a starting point and see how it helps you interact with the interface.

Because I found that particular one is just wonderful and just changes everything.

But it's been a real, real pleasure in having a chat with a bit of humor.

Before we started recording a bit of geeky chat about microphones and such like, which is also great fun, but actually talking about Chatupati and how it can be really helpful in working out the things it does well, the things it doesn't do as well, in a very sort of honest, authentic conversation.

It's been a real privilege.

So thank you for the opportunity.

Thanks, Joe.

Yeah, thanks for saying nice things as well.

Yeah, that's great.

And maybe see you again sometime maybe one of these days, if I actually get myself to the ITFL conference or something similar that I can actually meet you in person or some other context.

Great.

Okay.

Thanks, Joe.

Have a good day.

Same to you.

Thank you.

So there you go.

That was me in conversation with Joe a couple of weeks ago now in the middle of a big heat wave.

And when I was very sweaty and hot and struggling, it was like It felt like about 38 degrees on that particular day, I think.

Yeah, big September heat wave, which made everything just difficult.

You know me.

If you've listened to this podcast, even a couple of times, then you probably have heard me complaining about hot weather.

It's not really my cup of tea.

I mean, who does really love excessively hot and worryingly hot weather?

I don't know.

But anyway, I hope you managed to keep up with that and hope you enjoyed it and that all of that stuff felt relevant to you and that you picked out a few little things that you can take away.

As I said in the introduction yeah, a lot of that stuff was probably directed at teachers or sort of talked about from the perspective of the teachers.

But I think there were things in there that learners could take as well, including just the general applications for ChatGPT in education and the way that teachers think about how to prepare our lessons and the ways that we need materials to be prepared.

I think that all that kind of transparency in understanding the ways that teachers try to teach language can help learners try to receive language or to teach themselves language as well.

So hopefully it all kind of goes into the mix in a kind of a beneficial way.

So what about those different things that we mentioned?

I said that I would...

I would list those things again.

When I say things that we mentioned, that's not very specific, is it?

I mean, that could be anything.

But obviously, I'm talking about other bits of software.

Obviously ChatGPT, which we said about a billion times, and this podcast is not sponsored by OpenAI or anything.

Nevertheless, we did give it a huge plug in this episode.

Other forms of AI language bot are available.

You just search the internet for them.

But anyway, At the beginning, Joe mentioned a couple of online communities.

There's the Post Primary Languages Ireland podcast.

That's a podcast for teachers, really, teaching languages at a post primary level.

So really I suppose that's That's particularly interesting for people teaching languages to children.

But anyway, the Post Primary Languages Ireland podcast, which Joe produces.

Also, there's the Language Teaching with AI Facebook group, which should be an interesting one for teachers interested in exploring the many different ways that AI can be used to make our lives more convenient.

But, as Joe mentioned, there's a code of conduct for that group and he expects you to take part in the group in the right kind of way.

So he will ask you to complete a questionnaire if you want to join it.

That's good.

That's a good sign.

If a group is being properly and carefully moderated, that's a good sign.

Google Chrome extensions... the first one was magical, magical.

So you just go to, I don't know if you know about Google Chrome extensions.

A lot of you will know, but some of you won't know.

If you use Google Chrome on your computer as your internet browser.

I mean, you know what are the different internet browsers.

There's Microsoft Edge, there's Google Chrome, there's Safari.

If you're using a Mac, there's Firefox, and there are probably other ones as well.

But I think those are probably the most famous ones.

So if you use Google Chrome, though, you can actually add extensions to Google Chrome.

And how do you do that?

I'm just having a look here.

Well actually, you just literally use Google to search for Google extensions, Google Chrome extensions.

So you type into Google Google Chrome extensions and then you can go to the homepage for Google Chrome extensions.

And you can search for all these different things that I'm mentioning.

So the first one was called Magical.

Magical is a tool which helps you to write text without having to write it out each time.

And this is useful if you tend to write the same thing a lot over and over and over again.

So if you install the Magical extension to Google Chrome, it will give you more options within Google Chrome.

Essentially, it gives you shortcuts on the keyboard which you can define.

And when you add those shortcuts, Magical will automatically add certain text which you've loaded into the extension.

So if you write emails and you tend to write exactly the same thing every time...

You can just create a little shortcut for that.

And Magical.

When you add the little shortcut into your whatever it is your email that you're writing through Google Chrome, Magical will automatically add that pre-written text there.

So, you know, a nice time saving little gadget.

There's also canned replies, which I understand is similar to Magical.

So you've got magical and canned replies, basically quick ways of adding text that you always write.

You can load the text into the extension and then just quickly add it into the thing you're writing.

One of the big ones was voice control for chat GPT.

And this is what you can use to essentially add a button into ChatGPT, which will be a microphone.

And you can click the microphone and speak to ChatGPT using your computer's microphone.

And it will... convert that to text, which you can then enter into ChatGPT.

So it's speech to text.

Also, it's text to speech, which means that it will convert ChatGPT's responses into spoken English through your speakers or headphones, which is, you know, a huge thing.

Potentially, that means that you can then start using your voice, and it adds speaking and listening to the process, rather than just texting with your, you know, by typing words and reading.

Suddenly, that's a whole other dimension for language learning, right?

Speaking and listening.

Now, obviously, there are limitations, as Joe mentioned.

There's a pause and it seems a bit clunky.

And obviously there's the whole question of whether ChatGPT can actually engage in normal human conversation.

In my previous episodes, it struggled with that.

But it's all a question of finding the right prompts.

And if you basically tell ChatGPT, OK, imagine you're an English teacher.

Pretend to be an English teacher.

Let's have a natural conversation.

Pretend you're not an AI language model.

Instead, you can pretend that you're a human being, maybe an English teacher.

Let's have a conversation.

If you get the right prompt in there, it might be capable of having a fairly natural conversation with you.

But you have to work with it a little bit.

So that was voice control for chat gpt.

Also, you've got use immersive reader on websites.

Use immersive reader on websites and this can also read out text for you in spoken word format.

So it's a way of converting stuff that's in writing on a website into spoken english.

You know, to convert written English into listening basically.

And then there's also chat GPT and YouTube summary.

And this basically summarises YouTube videos.

So I think you can add the link to a YouTube video and it will give you a basic summary of the whole video.

Now, what I question with this is its ability to do this well enough.

It probably handles shorter videos better than it handles longer videos.

And I'm probably talking about my own content here.

As you well know, some of my content is very long and rambling.

And so ChatGPT and YouTube Summary probably struggles with that sort of thing because it can't really detect which are the really main points, which are peripheral points, which things are in the introduction which are the main body.

You know, it sort of struggles to understand all those bits.

But you could give it a try.

And probably for shorter videos.

It can be very good at summarising them, which again saves time and could be applied to English learning and teaching in various ways.

There's also Edpuzzle, which you can use to quickly turn YouTube videos into comprehension exercises.

You can kind of insert questions at regular intervals.

It's really a tool for teachers to use to share YouTube videos with their students and kind of curate the video at the same time and add questions and other tasks into the video viewing experience.

Yes.

Also, we've got Some other things that Joe mentioned, there's a Google Docs extension called CloseIt, that's C-L-O-Z-E-I-T, CloseIt, which essentially you can use to conveniently create gap fills in texts.

Useful for me.

There's Wheel of Names, which is a website wheelofnamescom and it's essentially a spinning wheel which randomly chooses items from a list.

Can be a fun thing to use as a teacher.

I don't know if as a learner of English you could use that.

It's basically a randomiser, but it's a fun randomiser basically.

Microsoft Lens, which is part of Microsoft Tools, which I understand is part of Microsoft Office 365.

So if you are a Microsoft user and you've got Microsoft Tools, you could look specifically at Microsoft Lens.

This allows you to scan text from a photo.

So if you've taken the photo of a poster or a public notice or a newspaper article or something, Microsoft Lens allows you to scan the text from the photo and then export that text into other software.

A lot of stuff does this these days.

Even if you're an iPhone user, the Notes application on your iPhone allows you to do this too.

You can scan photos and turn it into text as well.

That's not just a photo.

You can't take a selfie of your face and then scan your face into the form of text.

But if you're taking a picture of some text that's written somewhere you know, like the back of a book that you find in a bookshop, for example, you could scan the back of it and turn that blurb on the back of a book.

You could turn that into text, which you could then save for later, you know, and use it for whatever reason.

There's another bit of software called Reading Coach which is part of Immersive Reader in Microsoft Tools in Microsoft Office 365.

And with Reading Coach, basically what it does is it reads out loud any text that you've scanned.

So it's more text-to-speech software.

It also listens to you speaking and even gives you feedback on your pronunciation and speaking.

And you can compare your speaking with the model speech, the automatic speech as well.

That's Microsoft Tools.

It's called Reading Coach.

And then finally, there was something called audiopen.ai.

That's a website, audiopen.ai.

And this basically allows you to record quick voice notes, which it then transcribes and neatly summarises for you.

So, for example, I could use it at the end of episodes, at the end of recordings, I could say into audiopen.

So there I had a conversation with Joe Dale.

He is an edtech specialist uh, enthusiast chat gpt user uh, he's a consultant in modern foreign languages and uh, he spoke to me at length about using chat gpt in modern foreign languages and the various ways it could be used, and that's basically it.

You know, you could kind of do that it would.

It would um, transcribe everything i'd said and also give me a maybe a one or two sentence summary of what i said as well.

Maybe I should be using this stuff.

Maybe I should be using all of these things, you know, in order to streamline my introductions and my out-troductions if that's a word my endings.

Maybe I should be using that stuff.

But there's still something inside me which kind of says no, I think I should probably hold on to the.

I should probably stick with the way I'm doing it.

Sure, my stuff can be a bit long, but I still want to keep that human touch in there if I can.

Anyway, I'm going to cut this off here.

That's going to be the end of this.

OK, but let me know your thoughts in the comments section.

How was this episode for you?

And did you sort of learn anything or notice anything useful?

Are you going to use any of the things that Joe mentioned?

Thanks again to Joe Dale for the episode and for the conversation.

It was good to talk to him.

But that's it from me now here in this episode at this particular moment of this particular day.

And I will speak to you again next time.

But for now, it's time to say goodbye.

Bye.

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AI 赋能语言教育：从创意激发到工具局限的深度探讨

创意引擎：文本生成与个性化教学

幽默的边界：AI 的“平庸”与人类的智慧

工具生态：扩展程序与工作流的优化

伦理思考与未来展望

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[AI 与语言教学的革命：Joe Dale 深度解析 ChatGPT 在教育中的机遇与局限]-[845. Using ChatGPT as a Language Teaching Tool 🤖 with JOE DALE, EdTech Guru, ChatGPT Enthusiast]

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AI 赋能语言教育：从创意激发到工具局限的深度探讨

创意引擎：文本生成与个性化教学

幽默的边界：AI 的“平庸”与人类的智慧

工具生态：扩展程序与工作流的优化

伦理思考与未来展望

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