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Hello, Aubrey. How are you today?
I'm great, Lindsay.
How are you? Good, good.
What are we getting into on the show today?
I have a question. Do you remember an episode a little while ago where we talked about why natives would say, I love it versus I'm loving it?
Yeah. I mean, it makes me think of McDonald's, right?
I'm loving it. I guess we talked about it at one point, but I really don't know when we talked about it or what the title was or the episode number.
Same. I wouldn't be able to come up with the episode number or the title.
I'm not sure exactly which keyword I would use to find it.
So this came up in the Q &A this week for our students, where one of them asked about why do native speakers sometimes say, I'm enjoying this instead of I enjoy it.
And I remember that episode.
I was like, oh, we did a great episode about this.
And then we use ChatGPT to figure out the episode number and the name.
So then they could go to our app, listen to it, search the episode number, the name.
So stay to the end for that episode because if you missed it it was a really really good one but today we're going to share three tips that you can use ai to get the most out of the alders english archives yeah we are doing a lot of exciting things with ai this summer where we're adding ai to a lot of different aspects of our courses and our products so guys stay tuned we'll talk a little bit more about it today but we have some hot tips today right tip number one aubria is what can we do we can use it as kind of an archive searcher right exactly so you can search by topic vocabulary i think we
you know we typed in like has all ears english done an episode that was about enjoy versus enjoying and it brought it right up immediately right interesting so we're going to share for each of these a prompt you might put into chat gpt and what the result was when i put in these prompts so So for this first one, we're thinking about topic, vocabulary, whether you remember vaguely hearing an episode of the podcast or you just want to know if we've done an episode about something before.
So you could put in the prompt, has All Ears English done an episode on polar opposites?
So this is like an idiom trying to find out what would be the result, Lindsay?
Yes, we did. Did we?
Yes. Yes, we did. I know, you probably don't even remember.
This is a while ago.
It was 1654. We talked about how polar opposite describes two things or people that are completely different from each other.
I like that. Interesting.
Yeah, you don't even remember, right?
I asked you like probably, I'm not sure, but ChatGPT knows, right?
They know. So they can come up with the number, episode number, the title, and give you a quick little summary.
So then you can go listen to the whole episode.
I love that idea. A big part of ChatGPT, what we've learned over the last few months using it, is that that it's about the prompt, the quality of your prompt, how specific is your question?
You know, are you demanding a better answer?
If you don't like your answer, if you think maybe the answer is wrong, because ChatGPT gives us wrong answers all the time, right?
Yes, that is so true.
To get a better answer.
We have to be careful sometimes, right?
This has happened to me when we provide quizzes for Apple subscribers.
And I'm like, I'm going to see if Apple could come up with some good quiz questions or chat GPT.
And I tried and they, then I would double check the episode and it was giving me questions for vocabulary that wasn't even in the episode.
So I'm like, okay, I need to refine my prompts.
I need to figure out because it's mostly user error, but you're right, Lindsay, if you don't know the exact prompt, if you're not asking the right thing, you're going to get results that are incorrect or skewed. So there is a finesse to this.
Yeah. So we can't, I mean, the biggest thing that I've been thinking about lately is we can't turn off our brains when we use AI right that's the big danger as long as we stay critical and we assume maybe we assume the chat is wrong and we want to make it better that's a good approach. So this is interesting because if you have a question for us something about an idiom vocabulary you can first go to chat GPT and find out if it's in a previous episode listen to that episode and it is going to give you interesting more nuanced specific questions Every episode you listen to, as you are experiencing
English and immersing yourself in English, you're starting to see comparisons and more specific questions.
That question you can send in, right?
And it becomes another interesting episode.
Oh, we love good specific questions that you can send to us, right, Aubrey?
So if you're using it to refine your questions, that's a great method.
Absolutely. Aubrey, what would be the second tip, the second thing that we might want to look for on Chad GPT or a similar language model yes you want to search for episodes by grammar point so for example if you want to better understand future perfect tense the prompt you put in could be has All Ears English done an episode on future perfect and what would be the result you would get from that Lindsay when we tried this they told us yes we have done this episode it's episode 1919 2019, and we have the title, You will have mastered future perfect English grammar by the end of this episode.
And they even said who hosted it, right?
It was you and me, Aubry.
What we talked about.
So good. Exactly. Yeah, so helpful.
So then you can take that and go listen to the entire episode, get all of the details.
And sometimes you could go to our website, you could go to the app and search future perfect, for example, and it might bring that up.
But often If it's something where you're not sure what the keywords could be, that is the that is the time to use AI to you might need to ask a few questions and then you can find those episodes, those grammar episodes as well.
Yeah. So this is just the tip of the iceberg, Aubrey, in terms of how we could use AI to learn English.
We are super excited that this summer we're adding a lot of AI into our online courses.
Select online courses at All Ears English are being supplemented with some AI practice activities, especially when it comes to pronunciation, Aubrey.
Yes, AI can give you immediate feedback on your pronunciation to help you with individual phonemes, word stress, so that you know what you're doing right, what you need to change.
It's really difficult to practice speaking in a vacuum.
you. When you don't have that feedback, you just say it and you're not sure if it's right or not.
You're everyone's first language.
You will hear different things.
You might not recognize different mistakes you're making.
AI can give you that feedback.
Yeah, but the most important question that I think a lot of students have been asking us when they think about getting into our courses, they ask us, does this replace my time with a person, right?
And the answer is no. When you're part of the All Ears English course system, You were invited to our weekly bi -week, twice a week usually, Aubrey, open conversation club, fluency party once a month.
You're in the community.
Do you think AI will ever replace this kind of community aspect, Aubrey?
No, definitely not, right?
My answer for this will always be no because the connection that is created between two humans can never be replicated by AI, by robots, right?
right? The connections that we see building in our community with members and students and between us getting to know you guys, podcast listeners and our students is amazing.
And nothing can really replace that when you have a conversation with AI that you just don't have that human connection.
It's so cool. I mean, even just this week, I was in three or four hot seat sessions, which is a special moment where we choose randomly a student from OCC to go into a breakout session one -on -one with me or with Aubrey.
And I got to meet these students and learn where they're living, what they're doing for work, what their challenges are.
That was amazing. And that probably won't be going away because we can't replace the opportunity to connect human to human, like you said.
But adding AI at the same time to some of our courses helps you prepare and learn the pronunciation better so you're ready when you get a chance to speak speak with us or another human, right?
It makes me think about Black Mirror.
There are a lot of episodes where it sort of goes into this, the psychology, the philosophy of could AI replace human connection?
And inevitably, it's kind of the same result that if someone is—there's one episode where someone sort of creates like a replacement robot of their spouse that passed away.
And it really highlights that that human connection just can't be replaced.
And it's the same with our community with you guys out there you still need speaking partners to chat with to practice speaking so that things that ai could never create you're able to build those connections man that's why we talk about connection at the heart of allers english that is the heart of what we do is not grammar it's not vocabulary yes you learn those things but the heart of what we do here is human connection connection not perfection and so ai is functional it'll help you practice it'll give you feedback was that phoneme correct you can get that now in many of our courses select
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Okay, Aubrey, where else are we going in this episode today?
day. All right. Our third tip here is, you know, what if we haven't covered something?
If you, for example, put in the prompt, has Allers English done an episode on the idiom spinning my wheels?
I put this in and I was expecting it to say, yes, and here's the episode number.
But what did it say, Lindsay?
Well, it said as of now, there doesn't appear to be any episode for this topic.
Right. But we did touch on this topic and a couple of episodes episode's like 658, right?
Turn, twin, spiss. Sorry.
Twist, turn, and spin.
And what else, Aubrey?
What else did it say?
Exactly, right? So it said there hasn't been an episode specifically about this, but then it gave this wealth of information.
It shared related topics and how they were related.
Then it defined the idiom.
It said, spinning my wheels typically means putting in effort without making a lot of progress, maybe working hard without a a big result.
And then it gave example sentences as well.
So definitely a lot of value here.
Even if the answer's no. And then you could send in a question.
I'd love to hear an episode about this, but there's also so much information here if the answer's no. Yeah.
And it looks like that topic should be on our list, Aubrey, for another episode soon, spinning my wheels.
It's a great expression.
So I mean, this is the point today.
AI is coming. it's here.
We are using it in different ways to learn languages.
If you're in our courses, you're going to see it applied in a very precise and targeted way, but it will never replace our opinion of the importance of human connection.
And it won't replace one -on -one practice with human beings either.
Absolutely. Right. It's a tool.
We should be using it.
There are so many ways to use it.
In fact, hit follow on the Business English podcast as well, because we're going to do a follow up about how to use AI specifically to improve your business English if you work in English but you should be using it as a tool right there are so many ways to use it at work to save time to streamline tasks but it's never going to replace human connection I love it guys check out all there's English 20 to 20 like or liking your grammar questions answered another good episode to check out right yeah that's the episode we found where it's like why why do native speakers do this for a state of verb why
is it sometimes present continuous and why is it sometimes you know present simple and all of the details there uh you can find for why that happens really good stuff all right good stuff aubry any other final takeaway for our listeners yeah i think a podcast like ours that have thousands of episodes with this large archive are difficult to search and there's a wealth of information there right right?
So you want to use it.
You can use AI to make the most out of the archives, to make it easier to search so that you can find older episodes about whatever it is you're learning.
Yeah. And remember once you do get those episode numbers in chat, you have options on where to consume it.
You could link back straight to the website.
You can go to our app or you can go to a podcast player or even YouTube.
Most of our episodes are in YouTube.
Lots of ways to do it.
Yeah. I didn't do my hair for nothing.
I know, right? Makeup and hair and all that stuff we treat you guys.
All right, Aubree, good stuff today.
I am so excited, especially for this summer as we add more AI to our courses and continue to connect with our students.
Absolutely. Awesome.
Thanks, Lindsay. I will see you next time.
All right. Bye, Aubree.
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